Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The Department of Justice is very well funded but of course always makes the case for more funding to respond back to the many pressures and challenges it has to contend with. The Department of Justice and An Garda Síochána take extremely seriously and I believe, manage in a very responsible way, the issues of how we keep our communities safe and in particular any threats that may be posed by those who have committed crimes of a sexual nature in the past. It is important to say that at the moment we face many different challenges in terms of the scale of people who are seeking asylum within our country and the responsibility that we have to manage those applications impartially, fairly and also speedily. It is because of this that additional funding has been made available to the Department of Justice to assist in the processing of applications and to do so in a way that is fair to those who deserve and are legally entitled to asylum and refuge in our country and then to deal speedily with those who are not.

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