Mr. Brian Merriman:

One of the benefits of opting into the recast reception conditions directive is that we finally have a mechanism to do more vulnerability testing at the point of arrival. This has been particularly challenging up to now but the framework provides us with the opportunity to bring it in. It will be spearheaded through the HSE. We have upscaled considerably our capacity to identify victims of human trafficking once they arrive. There is always a difficulty with people who have gone through a bad experience in trusting the State when they first encounter it. While part of the vulnerability testing will establish what we can identify, we will also seek to make sure it is an ongoing process during their time in the protection process, which is a welcome development.

On the particular case, we would honour the application made by an aged out minor while he or she was still a minor. If he or she put in the application while he or she was under 18, we would honour that. One of the-----