Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 14 October 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

General Scheme of the International Protection Bill 2025: Discussion

2:00 am

Photo of Lynn RuaneLynn Ruane (Independent)

We have here something that has to be in place by July 2026, yet we do not know how people will be held, where people will be held and who will run the facilities. We are carrying out pre-legislative scrutiny on something that is quite fictional in a sense. Do the witnesses have any concerns about how detention will play out? We have the places of detention Bill and the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture, OPCAT. People held in detention have the right to education and recreation. We do not know what any of this looks like. Do the witnesses from IHREC have any concerns they would like to note in terms of those human rights?

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