Mr. Colm O'Gorman:

I will try to be swift. On the question of duplication, Front Line Defenders is a really extraordinary organisation. Its founder and director, Ms Mary Lawlor is a predecessor of mine in Amnesty International and I hold her in very high regard indeed. She established Front Line Defenders because she believed that there was a need to provide very practical supports to human rights defenders. Front Line Defenders does really invaluable work in providing respite, resources, funding, technical support and so forth to human rights defenders so that they can continue on with their work. Its focus is quite different to that of Amnesty International. Clearly, both organisations campaign to try to protect individual human rights defenders, not least because they deserve that protection but also because if we can improve the situation in any one given case, that can have a broader positive impact for people living and working in that region, or country, as human rights defenders. I do not believe there is a duplication, as such. There is a huge amount of co-operation between the two organisations but we undertake somewhat different work.

On the question of the Dublin guidelines, as Senator Norris correctly pointed out, Dublin refers to the fact that this agreement was struck in our capital city. That is perhaps unfortunate, given its provisions and their implications for many people.

Frontex is the EU border control agency. It is not a human rights entity or agency.