Cathal Crowe (Clare, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

It is great to see the team of the Minister and the Ministers of State here divvying up the workload of the Department. It is progressive politics and I am glad to see that the Minister, Deputy McEntee, has since had her baby and all is going well on that front.

I want to ask our team serving the Department of Justice how the processing of international protection applications is going.

Has it been stymied or delayed in any way by Covid-19? What mitigating measures are being taken by the Department to speed things up a little bit?

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