Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 22 September 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement

EU-UK Withdrawal Agreement: Discussion

Ms Alyson Kilpatrick:

On the question of advice to transporters and travellers, we have not been asked directly for advice. The only advice we could give if asked, and we are keen to give it, relates to who needs and who does not need an electronic travel authorisation. It is difficult to tell people that those who do not need it should not carry a form of identification and ask them to make the authorities prove they can ask for identification from people crossing the Border on a bus.

That sort of flags up why this provision is so difficult.

Lastly, on asylum seekers' accommodation in Northern Ireland, we are on this as a commission. We have been meeting with relevant organisations and individuals, including the Home Office. We are looking in particular at the conditions in which those people are being accommodated. But for the funeral of the late Queen, we would have had that meeting last week. We will be able to the committee on where we get with that. We certainly consider it to be a serious human rights breach in relation to conditions.

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