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
Gary Gannon (Dublin Central, Social Democrats)
We are doing a number of things today but what we are effectively doing is scrutinising the expansion of the powers of detention within this State, which will now include children. We are going to do all of that without any sort of independent monitoring framework under OPCAT. That is effectively correct, is it not? Does anyone dispute that?
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