Helen McEntee (Meath East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

It is almost complete but it will not necessarily mean that 60% of applications are suddenly in an accelerated procedure. It is actually quite a small number. There are a lot of countries that are not safe, that we should not even be looking at and that are never going to be deemed safe. We can review them and look at them but it will not have an impact on the volume. We do not necessarily have people coming from the countries that other people have designated as safe. For example, Germany might have a particular country that it has designated as safe and we have not but it might be the case that it has a larger proportion of people coming from that country and we do not. Therefore, it is not necessary to designate them as safe.