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. Neil Bruton:

Deputy Gannon was asking about the 160 organisations and whether their concerns have been allayed. Based on all our representations, they clearly have not been allayed. Most of us here are deeply concerned about the screening, the arbitrary grouping of people into sped-up procedures and their not having adequate time or the ability to assert their rights in those procedures. Those concerns have not been allayed.