Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 9 May 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Access to the Labour Market for International Protection Applicants: Discussion

9:00 am

Ms Emily Logan:

We have not yet had anybody bring that to our attention but it is a valid question. It is also possibly a valid barrier for people. The nature of that has not come to our attention in our role, probably because in terms of offering people legal assistance, our threshold is set at a legal threshold which is slightly higher. It is an administrative law or legal space. It may be possible that our colleagues in civil society might have different experiences or might be able to give the committee on-the-ground experience of that. However, people come to us mainly at the level of administrative law and that is where issues such as documentation that supports driver's licences, for example, matter.

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