Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 11 May 2017
Public Accounts Committee
2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed)
9:00 am
Mr. Noel Waters:
Instead of having a number of discrete, separate stand-alone steps in the asylum and protection process, applicants are now required to put all their case upfront at the start. So they can apply for asylum; they can apply for what is known as subsidiary protection, which is a protection which is slightly less than asylum; or they can apply for leave to remain. All of those are concerned in one step. Hitherto the situation was that one applied for asylum; one appealed a negative decision; and one then moved on to the subsidiary protection. If one got a negative position, one appealed that; equally with leave to remain and one appealed that. Then in the middle of that-----
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