Dr. Tricia Keilthy:

On the issue of detention, obviously we want to see the safeguard on the explicit banning of the detention of children put back in. What we are speaking about here are alternatives to detention or de facto detention that may arise when we do not have clarity, from the heads of Bill, regarding what the alternatives to detention might be. However, for us, it is crucially important that children's rights still apply and do not go away while they are in the asylum border procedure or in this State.