Mr. Kevin McCarthy:

Obviously, migration policy and border control is a matter for the Department of Justice. I preface anything I say with that point. Everybody who comes here seeking international protection has an entitlement under the recast directive to be accommodated while their applications are being processed. If a country is defined as a country of safe origin, then the Department of Justice's objective would be to process applications as quickly as possible and to prioritise the processing of applications from countries it would see as countries of safe origin.