Ms Oonagh Buckley:

We will not do it all at once. I do not think that is fair. We will not press a button and have hundreds of people suddenly get such news. Relatively speaking, in recent times, a higher proportion of people in the decision-making process than would be the norm have secured permission to remain. That is partly because we have given priority to certain countries, in particular Afghanistan, as the idea of issuing a deportation order for somebody to go back to Afghanistan at this point is not viable.

Without going into it, for the system to have integrity, if a person does not meet the standard of international protection in this country, even after all the various iterations, a decision can be taken to the IPO and appealed to IPAT and then it goes back to the ministerial decision unit. For a system to have some integrity, there will always be some people who do not fall on the right side of the line.