Mr. Ciarán Finlay:

The person has to show that they have taken steps to exhaust domestic remedies. The requirement is that all domestic remedies must have been exhausted but there are certain exceptions. The committee's jurisprudence has been a bit inconsistent. In some cases it has shown that a three-year wait is considered to be too long and in other cases it has shown that a five-year wait is not too long. It depends on the nature and extent of the case but in general, a person would have to have exhausted domestic remedies.