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:
There are nine regulations in total, seven of which are being proposed. To put it simply we can point to parts of each regulation that could be positive, as Mr. Leonard and colleagues from the UNHCR have said. Bearing in mind there are 1,300 pages of legislation here, an analysis of each leads us to conclude there is more bad than there is good. That is an attempt to answer the Senator's question.