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- Seanad: International Protection Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (7 Dec 2015)
Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Amendment No. 23 is in page 18, lines 24 to 25, to delete the words “taking responsibility for the care and protection" and, following the word "years" to insert “the parent or legal or customary caregiver”. The rationale for the amendment is that as it stands there is a lack of clarity in the Bill on whether a minor is deemed accompanied or unaccompanied. In law and...
- Seanad: International Protection Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (7 Dec 2015)
Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: I move amendment No. 24:In page 18, line 29, to delete “shall be deemed to also have made” and substitute “may make”.
- Seanad: International Protection Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (7 Dec 2015)
Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: I will speak to the amendment. Amendment No. 24 is in page 18, line 29, to delete “shall be deemed to also have made” and to insert "may make". The rationale for the amendment is to articulate clearly the right of the child to make a separate protection application on his or her own behalf.
- Seanad: International Protection Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (7 Dec 2015)
Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: I move amendment No. 27:In page 18, line 38, to delete "should" and substitute "may".
- Seanad: International Protection Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (7 Dec 2015)
Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: I move amendment No. 29:In page 19, between lines 8 and 9, to insert the following:"(7) Subject to sections 21 and 22, a person under the age of 18 and who is at the frontier of the State or who is in the State (whether lawfully or unlawfully) may make an application for international protection on his or her own behalf.". Sinn Féin has concerns about the application for international...
- Seanad: International Protection Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (7 Dec 2015)
Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: In amendment No. 160, we propose to insert the following on page 41, between lines 25 and 26:“(6) Where a recommendation referred to in subsection 2(b) has not been made within 9 months of the date of application, the applicant shall be granted access to the labour market.”. As we all know, Ireland is out of step with other EU member states by depriving asylum seekers of any...
- Seanad: International Protection Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (7 Dec 2015)
Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: I am very disappointed with the Minister of State's response that the Cabinet committee is still looking at this issue. He has stated, as have Senators, that this legislation has been under consideration over a number of years but it has been left sitting on a shelf. It is not as if this proposal has come out of the blue. The right to work is a fundamental issue in regard to asylum...
- Seanad: International Protection Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (7 Dec 2015)
Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: I must respond because, while Members have heard many expressions of sympathy, the time for sympathy is over and the time for action is now. It is a little disingenuous to state that there are people within the system who might be abused or whatever in work scenarios. What the right to work confers literally is a right to work. It does not confer a job or force people into employment, and...
- Seanad: International Protection Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (7 Dec 2015)
Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: It is also important to clarify that the Minister of State has put on record that 26 of the recommendations from the report are being implemented. There are more than 170-----
- Seanad: International Protection Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (7 Dec 2015)
Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Yes, in this Bill.
- Seanad: International Protection Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (7 Dec 2015)
Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: That is all I said. I do not know what the Minister of State's issue is.
- Seanad: International Protection Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (7 Dec 2015)
Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: I would prefer if the Minister of State did not pre-empt what I am going to say because I am pre-empting something he has agreed-----
- Seanad: International Protection Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (7 Dec 2015)
Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: -----which are recommendations on page 211 of the working group report. Again, it relates to the cherry-picking of the recommendations and the fact that only 26 out of 170 have been picked. One of the fundamental ones is around the right to work.The working group stated:Having regard to the foregoing, the Working Group recommends: Provision for access to the labour market for protection...
- Seanad: International Protection Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (7 Dec 2015)
Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: International Protection Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (7 Dec 2015)
Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Not agreed.
- Seanad: International Protection Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (7 Dec 2015)
Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: I move amendment No. 31:In page 19, between lines 29 and 30, to insert the following:"(iii) reporting requirements shall be subject to review taking into account the personal circumstances of an applicant seeking international protection and maintaining flexibility in relation to those personal circumstances". I am not trying to be vexatious but I do not see any logical reason for grouping...
- Seanad: International Protection Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (7 Dec 2015)
Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: None.
- Seanad: International Protection Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (7 Dec 2015)
Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: I seek clarification on the interesting point the Minister of State has raised. Is he stating that once the single procedure is introduced, all applicants will be determined within a six-month period and, therefore, within six months applicants either will be given asylum, refugee status, leave to remain, etc. or will be in a position whereby they will be deported and, in consequence, people...
- Seanad: International Protection Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (7 Dec 2015)
Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: What the Minister of State is intimating certainly would be welcome. Again, if one goes through the report of the working group on the protection process in respect of the issues regarding those who already are in the system, paragraph 3.128 is a recommendation for persons awaiting decisions at the protection process and leave to remain stages for five years or more. It states: "All persons...
- Seanad: International Protection Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (7 Dec 2015)
Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: I would like a response from the Minister of State on the point I just raised, if possible.