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

Dr. John Lannon:

We would agree with the commission, particularly when it comes to many of our concerns on safeguards but also on the excessive use of border procedures. We see there are gaps. There is too stringent an interpretation and in fact we go further than the pact permits, as Mr. Herrick said. There are other cases where we are not implementing many of the safeguards the pact permits. Looking at the reception conditions directive and the asylum procedures regulations, there are aspects that we would very much like to see incorporated into the Bill. On the other hand, in other places it is looking like there will be excessive powers being used such as, for example, mandatory use of border procedures in certain conditions, which we would be opposed to.

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