Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 23 April 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality
EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion
3:30 pm
Helen McEntee (Meath East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
No. That is something we will set in legislation. While there are the two-, three- and six-month periods, it is for us to decide how long the appeals process would take. As for those in Schengen, for the border procedure, that will be set at 12 weeks. We could mirror that and apply the same rules, but for any of the other appeals we set the timeline within which we want them to take place. One wants it to be as quick as possible, but it does require us to put in place significant investment, which we intend to do, in the appeals process.
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