John O'Donoghue (Kerry South, Fianna Fail)

Additionally, the administrative structures were in a state of chaos. A mere handful of staff was working on thousands of applications which had built up over previous years. During its period in Government, the rainbow coalition produced the Refugee Act 1996. The 1996 Act was woefully inadequate and hopelessly flawed. The result was that the backlog——

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