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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)
Helen McEntee: That has only been the case in recent months.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)
Helen McEntee: The high number is only recent and we have a recent High Court case, which means we cannot return them. That has been very clear.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)
Helen McEntee: I have to answer because the Senator said theoretically and in practice. In practice, that figure is only in recent months. It was not the case last year that 13,000 or 80% came from the UK. That figure has only escalated in recent months. That is the case now and if we apply the figure from this year, due to a recent court ruling, returns to the UK have been paused. That High Court...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)
Helen McEntee: Yes, in recent months.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)
Helen McEntee: I do not have those figures broken down in front of me, but that is information we are gathering. I do not have that information to hand.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)
Helen McEntee: It does not change the fact that we need to be able process the applications quickly, make sure we can return people and have a solidarity mechanism. Irrespective of whether they are coming across the Border or through the airports, we still need to be able to access those solidarity or crisis regulations. If we do not sign up to them, we will not be able to apply them, irrespective of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)
Helen McEntee: Insofar as I can, yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)
Helen McEntee: All I can state clearly is that decisions taken to prosecute are decisions taken by An Garda Síochána and the DPP. The Garda National Immigration Bureau, GNIB, is working collectively with the system to make sure that where people are potentially abusing the system or where there are laws that are abused that, at its discretion, it makes those decisions. It is the case that now...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)
Helen McEntee: It is a matter for the An Garda to decide what prosecutions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)
Helen McEntee: My firm view is that the question of ceding sovereignty to the EU by opting in to the measures does not arise. To quote somebody who campaigned for the Lisbon treaty at the time: The Lisbon Treaty neither creates a new state nor dissolves any existing state. It creates no new or competing source of sovereignty and it extinguishes no existing source of Member State sovereignty. I agree...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)
Helen McEntee: No, it is not. I will explain. Today, what I brought to Cabinet-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)
Helen McEntee: No, it does not impact it. What I brought to Cabinet today was a memo for information-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)
Helen McEntee: I do not think the Senator is because-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)
Helen McEntee: I do not think the Senator is aware of what I brought to Cabinet because she said it was legislation about Nigeria. What I have brought today is a memo for information to outline that we are designating the country from where we have the most applications coming into the accelerated procedure. We are not designating it as safe; we are saying that it is the country with the most...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)
Helen McEntee: We would make that decision ourselves. That does not impact it at all.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)
Helen McEntee: I am telling the Senator that we would.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)
Helen McEntee: May I respond briefly? It is really important that we talk about facts.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)
Helen McEntee: It is really important we deal with facts. The Senator asked whether this would be impacted by our joining the pact. It is absolutely the case that it would not be impacted. People can choose to believe that or not, but I have to state the facts here. The facts are very clear that that would not be the case, in the same way as the facts are clear that the 5 million people the Senator...