Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 23 March 2017
Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union
Engagement on Common Travel Area: Department of Justice and Equality
11:00 am
Mr. William O'Dwyer:
On the British-Irish visa scheme, BIVS, as the Secretary General has said, there would have been some technical issues in the early days that might have caused delays, but those issues have been ironed out at this stage. The tourism agency has certainly seen it as a great success. It is kept under constant review by us and the UK, and we are looking at extending it further at this stage. Advanced passenger information, API, was mentioned, and I will emphasise that all of these exchanges are subject to data protection requirements. The API, specifically, is the data that would otherwise be presented if one landed at the Border. It is the biographical data on a person's passport that is being exchanged.
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