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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)

Lynn Ruane: What about member states being able to apply to the Commission to have a crisis declared? There is an obvious opt-out in the context of particular laws. I am particularly interested in member states being able to declare a crisis and ignore what is in previous conventions. Is Mr. O'Neill worried about that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)

Lynn Ruane: Could we briefly speak about surveillance please?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)

Lynn Ruane: I would like to hear from Ms Hurley.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)

Lynn Ruane: I want to come in on the connection piece and tie it in to the mass data piece. Can the mass data piece be used to uphold the connection piece? There may be large families that have to flee from places and set up in different countries. If there is a mass database that identifies a person as having a family connection in the UK or France could that be used to add to the criteria, rather...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)

Lynn Ruane: Not all the criteria, however, have to be met. It could be that the person has transited through somewhere and has a family member who has been identified only through fingerprinting, and those two factors combined could be enough.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)

Lynn Ruane: Yes, but if that is matched with data that has been collected through fingerprinting to say that person has a family member in that country, that would also be seen as a connection. That could be used as enough to send somebody to a safe third country.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)

Lynn Ruane: She has got through border patrol.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)

Lynn Ruane: May I add something so that it makes its way into the letter, which we probably have not-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)

Lynn Ruane: I wish to put it on the record. Obviously, we do not want to be adding points later that are not on the record.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)

Lynn Ruane: No, I do not mean that. I want to do it so that I can refer back to it when we are doing that work,-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)

Lynn Ruane: -----even if it is not in public.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)

Lynn Ruane: Grand. Regarding biometrics, we may have missed an opportunity at this meeting to avail of more expertise to inform our own understanding. Biometrics includes DNA scanning. DNA is a physical attribute. There are behavioural attributes and physical attributes. Being in the pact does not necessarily mean everyone would engage in DNA scanning, but it is included as an option under the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)

Lynn Ruane: So, we will not be using facial recognition technology, which is being introduced by our justice Ministry, to manage our Border. There will be other legislation on border patrols and policing that interacts with the issue of facial recognition and other biometrics. The Department could say that the Garda could share facial imaging data with the border patrol of another country, given that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)

Lynn Ruane: Is the Department saying that the EU pact only refers to biometrics - obviously, I have a problem with facial recognition provisions – and lists those biometrics? It does not say “biometrics identification”. It lists which biometrics will be used.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)

Lynn Ruane: We might need to check that because the DNA piece ties into the family piece.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Ireland's International Obligations under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Lynn Ruane: I thank the Chair. I apologise for having to leave. The justice committee is meeting now to consider the EU migration pact, so it is quite an important discussion. We have to kind of flip between the two rooms, so I do apologise. There are a few things I wish to raise. Obviously, there is the stuff that is in the report but I am wondering about the survey process. I think there were...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Lynn Ruane: I will look at minors specifically in a few cases. When we think of negatives and what we opt into, there are some concerns that relate to minors. The first point relates to the last point Deputy Daly made about Eurodac and security risks. Perhaps the Minister could give the committee an idea of the criteria that meet a security risk, such as particular offences. Of all the border...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Lynn Ruane: So if a child is picked up under the other security risk category, which the Minister says is more of a protection than seeking to turn a child away, what would happen detention-wise to those children who are flagged as a security risk? How would the care conditions for them be met?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Lynn Ruane: What about age-disputed minors? There are obviously lots of issues about how we determine the age of unaccompanied minors at present in Ireland. There are lots of questions around that. What if the minor is age-disputed?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Lynn Ruane: Okay.