Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 21 October 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
General Scheme of the International Protection Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed)
2:00 am
Gary Gannon (Dublin Central, Social Democrats)
Regarding the collection of biometric data from children as young as six, which allows reasonable force under the Bill as presented, where an officer has reasonable grounds to believe a person is an adult, from a children's rights perspective, how should the Bill be amended to explicitly protect the child's dignity and physical integrity and to ensure no child is ever subjected to coercion or force during a biometric procedure?
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