Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 30 April 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (Resumed)

Photo of Michael McDowellMichael McDowell (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I accept that is the Department's intention. However, as I understand it, from both ECHR law and the court decisions until now by the Supreme Court in England, the use of Rwanda is considered unlawful under international law. I am asking a very simple question. I wonder is a lot of this academic, because people will actually be able to say to the Irish courts that what Ms Justice Phelan found as technical defects may have been remedied but they still have a fundamental objection to being sent back to the UK because of being exposed to the risk of being sent to Rwanda. Where are we on that?

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