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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 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...

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

Clare Daly: I will move to a couple of policy issues which may be lumped together. The first involves statistics for immigration enforcement. In its concluding observations on the second periodic review of Ireland the UN Committee Against Torture requested the State to provide it with data in the next periodic review for the countries of origin of persons denied leave to land and the point of...

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

Clare Daly: Mr. Kirrane is saying that the people from Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq and Libya who were sent back did not want asylum, but how sure is he that they were given every opportunity to assert their asylum claims and explain their points? Are translators and so on provided? Mr. Kirrane referred to six weeks of training. How do officers deal with the person to ensure that he or she knows that...

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

Clare Daly: Mr. Kirrane is saying that, because someone registered in or went to Germany first, that person will be sent back there.

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

Clare Daly: Is that done under this clause?

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

Clare Daly: That is what I am asking about. What is the process? Is the officer trained to make the offer? Is it on the checklist for an officer to tell someone that, if he or she is claiming asylum, the officer will deal with that and send the person somewhere? Does Mr. Kirrane know what I mean?

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

Clare Daly: That is helpful. Is an applicant provided with the services of a liaison officer and a translator?

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

Clare Daly: It would be made clear to the applicant they would be entitled to have a translator and if they require one, a call would be made to bring one in.

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

Clare Daly: When will the UN Convention against Torture recommendation regarding data publication be implemented?

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

Clare Daly: This is not a question, it is a requirement. It is an UNCAT recommendation to which Ireland is required to conform. Are plans under way to ensure that we can be compliant with that recommendation----