Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 11 July 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Immigrant Investor Programme and International Protection Applications: Discussion

9:00 am

Photo of Clare DalyClare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent)
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That is fine, but where is the discretion? We talked about discretion. This is somebody who, up to that point, had lived in Ireland for 15 years, who had no problems here because he had been granted citizenship and who has no access to that new information. For 18 months, this person has been told that INIS has some new information but that it will not tell him what it is, that it is off investigating the new information with somebody else and that it might get back to him in a couple of years when his children are graduating. That does not make sense. Should the person not have a right to access that information?