Colm Brophy (Dublin South West, Fine Gael)
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I will be happy to discuss individual cases further outside this forum. I reiterate that many people, some of whom have travelled regularly to the United Kingdom, contact public representatives having experienced untold grief in applying for an Irish visa. The frequency of such complaints indicates a pattern of problematic processing of applications. It is difficult to reconcile this with Mr. Kirrane’s answer because many of the people concerned have no problem in going to the United Kingdom which I assume carries out the same terrorism, security and policing checks as in Ireland but do encounter a difficulty when applying for an Irish visa. Many were granted permission to come here but encounter difficulty when applying for a second or subsequent visa. I do not know what they did for the 12 months since their initial application for a visa, but as the subsequent application was made from their home country, it is obvious that they returned there. I am not referring to a single case involving such problems. If I were, I would raise it as such.