Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 23 April 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion

3:30 pm

Photo of Helen McEnteeHelen McEntee (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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I can reassure the Senator that these are documents that have gone through extensive engagement with legal teams, legal professionals and legal translators. As a country, we then transpose this legislation and obviously do so with the Senator and other colleagues across both Houses. I assure the Senator that my team and others have gone through this in great detail. The language that has been settled on has gone through many processes and stages. In terms of the family unit, we apply that here ourselves in terms of what that looks like. Obviously, we have a definition for it here.