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

Yes, I think it is feasible but it will require increased levels of staffing. These increased levels will be required not just in the first-instance decisions, because this context includes appeals as well, so we will need to ensure our appeals processing is more efficient than it is now. This will also require an investment in people to allow us to be able to carry out these procedures. Investment in funding will also be required, and, again, we will be able to access funding if we are opting into this pact. As can be seen already, however, on foot of the fast processing we have applied to the ten safe countries and, as of today, to the country from where we receive the highest volume of applications from people seeking international protection, which at the moment is Nigeria, we have been able to reduce a process that has previously taken years into one where the processing time, in some instances, is now 60 or 70 days. It is, therefore, absolutely possible to achieve this outcome, but we need to be investing now and ensuring the structures are being put in place now.