Professor Siobhán Mullally:

Our policy document, our submission and our statement all make a number of points around that. Drawing on emerging standards elsewhere and on UNHCR guidance, one basic recommendation is that applicants for international protection be granted access to the labour market not later than six months after the date of lodging an application. Again, as we said in our opening statement, any restrictions in relation to sectors should be as limited as possible. Another recommendation would be the removal of the threshold in terms of the income requirements that are currently in place to ensure that there would also be access to entry level employment in order to open up access to employment as widely as possible. There is also a need to address the administrative barriers around identification cards, access to driving licences and bank accounts as well as access to vocational training. We have set out all of those recommendations in our policy submission.