Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 30 April 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

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

Mr. Nick Henderson:

As we read the procedure regulation, it gives greater opportunity to a member state to pass somebody back to a country they pass through or they have a connection to. That raises concerns for us on whether there is adequate human rights protection in that country. That is the thin end of a wedge of an attempt to reduce access to protection per se in the European Union. We are hugely concerned by it.