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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Immigrant Investor Programme and International Protection Applications: Discussion (11 Jul 2018)

Clare Daly: I appreciate that Mr. Costello acknowledged the problems that existed previously, which were frightening for the people who were not accepted and sent back to their home countries. I am happy to analyse Mr. Costello's answers as progress is made going forward. The issue of delays in processing applications was raise by other members. I accept that there are many reasons for the delays in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Immigrant Investor Programme and International Protection Applications: Discussion (11 Jul 2018)

Clare Daly: That is fine, but where is the discretion? We talked about discretion. This is somebody who, up to that point, had lived in Ireland for 15 years, who had no problems here because he had been granted citizenship and who has no access to that new information. For 18 months, this person has been told that INIS has some new information but that it will not tell him what it is, that it is off...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Immigrant Investor Programme and International Protection Applications: Discussion (11 Jul 2018)

Clare Daly: Does Mr. Kirrane think this 18-month period was reasonable?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Immigrant Investor Programme and International Protection Applications: Discussion (11 Jul 2018)

Clare Daly: Does this seem strange to Mr. Kirrane because it seems incredibly strange to me, and I am not talking about the details at all?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Immigrant Investor Programme and International Protection Applications: Discussion (11 Jul 2018)

Clare Daly: Based on what I told Mr. Kirrane and accepting the bona fides of that person who had already lived in Ireland for 15 years with nothing - INIS would have had proof of the position because it scrutinises and analyses cases and nothing showed up during its investigations - he was invited to the citizenship ceremony. Additional information is fine but it has been 18 months, which is probably a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Immigrant Investor Programme and International Protection Applications: Discussion (11 Jul 2018)

Clare Daly: To me, that and even Mr. Kirrane's answer reflect a certain problem.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Immigrant Investor Programme and International Protection Applications: Discussion (11 Jul 2018)

Clare Daly: We are not doing that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Immigrant Investor Programme and International Protection Applications: Discussion (11 Jul 2018)

Clare Daly: No identifying points were made. When Mr. Kirrane stated that resources have to cover a broad range of issues and cannot just deal with citizenship, I presume he meant that the application is just sitting there for a number of months and nobody is doing anything about it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Immigrant Investor Programme and International Protection Applications: Discussion (11 Jul 2018)

Clare Daly: There are no identifying features either.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Immigrant Investor Programme and International Protection Applications: Discussion (11 Jul 2018)

Clare Daly: I would be happy enough to know what is the position. I do not want us standing over a system whereby somebody is not entitled to that information. If a person is entitled to the information, what is the problem? He or she should be given it. I would even be happy with an answer in that regard and I do not need to be given it how.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Immigrant Investor Programme and International Protection Applications: Discussion (11 Jul 2018)

Clare Daly: Mr. Kirrane will understand how impossible matters are for that individual, who has lived in Ireland for 15 years and who does not know the nature of the information either. He is the one who is being victimised by it, which is my point. We will take that matter up later.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Immigrant Investor Programme and International Protection Applications: Discussion (11 Jul 2018)

Clare Daly: Could Mr. Kirrane answer the other points on this section?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Immigrant Investor Programme and International Protection Applications: Discussion (11 Jul 2018)

Clare Daly: Do they come out of the 800?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Immigrant Investor Programme and International Protection Applications: Discussion (11 Jul 2018)

Clare Daly: In terms of training and accountability, is there a monitoring of attitude problems or things like that if they emerge?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Immigrant Investor Programme and International Protection Applications: Discussion (11 Jul 2018)

Clare Daly: I do not mean them. I am referring to any INIS employee no matter where he or she is based who is deemed to be obstructive to applicants or where there is a sense that he or she is overly zealous in his or her refusals. What about instances where officers are obtuse in their dealings, which causes severe and unnecessary hardship for a family? How are they monitored?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Immigrant Investor Programme and International Protection Applications: Discussion (11 Jul 2018)

Clare Daly: I will try to be quick in going through my questions as I have a lot of them. Mr. Kirrane does not have to provide lengthy answers. I am a little worried about the family reunification process and the after effects. I will use one case to illustrate the point. A person is given one year to get here. He or she comes from a war-torn area. In the case of an unaccompanied minor whose...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Immigrant Investor Programme and International Protection Applications: Discussion (11 Jul 2018)

Clare Daly: What then is the 12-month issue? They were told that they had to be here within 12 months.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Immigrant Investor Programme and International Protection Applications: Discussion (11 Jul 2018)

Clare Daly: However, a 12-month time limit applies. They have 12 months to get here. That is what the letter states.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Immigrant Investor Programme and International Protection Applications: Discussion (11 Jul 2018)

Clare Daly: As such, Mr. Merriman is saying it is up to Tusla to find accommodation and that, to date, it has.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Immigrant Investor Programme and International Protection Applications: Discussion (11 Jul 2018)

Clare Daly: I do not think that is their understanding, but it is very informative for a meeting I am due to have later. I will move on. There were huge concerns about the quality of IPO 2 forms released in January 2017. A number of nationalities said someone had put them together using Google Translate and that they were completely wrong from a language point of view. The Minister told me in...