Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 11 July 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Immigrant Investor Programme and International Protection Applications: Discussion

9:00 am

Mr. Michael Kirrane:

On recognition rates, there was some confusion regarding figures and comparative numbers with the rest of the EU while we were in the old process of single sequential processing of refugee status, subsidiarity protection and leave to remain. A lot of our statistics related to first instance decisions purely in regard to the first aspect, which, because we did not have a single procedure, was not comparable with what was happening in the rest of Europe. Earlier in the discussion, the chief international protection officer outlined the current recognition rates, which take into account the single procedure and the fact that we are looking at all three aspects at the same time. I will ask Mr. Costello to elaborate further because those numbers are comparable with the rest of our European colleagues.

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