Ruairí Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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I thank Mr. Shotter for his comprehensive report and his acceptance that the system is not working. I would reiterate much of what other members have said, in particular on whether to call this period a crisis. It is a crisis for a large number of people. What Deputy Brady discussed was horrific, particularly the numbers.

My questions will be somewhat similar. I get that we want a stable system that can deal with normal situations and crises. How will the rapidity that Mr. Shotter mentioned work? What will the better workable pathways for humanitarian entry and economic entry look like? What does "return sponsorship" mean?

In this day and age, I do not entirely understand how the EURODAC database was set up to deal with applications rather than applicants. I would have expected the search facility to sort out that problem. If basic agile software development had been employed, the need to check the system on the basis of an applicant and have that information to hand would have been solved quickly. When does Mr. Shotter foresee this problem being sorted? When does he foresee the better workable pathways, the more rapid system and the sharing of responsibility coming into operation in the real world?