Michael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)

This consists of a set of amendments to the Refugee Act, 1996, which are designed to address the problems of abandoned cases in a way that preserves the standards of fairness to individual applicants of the present arrangements but at the same time improves on the efficiency of the system, an improvement which is in the interests of asylum-seekers as a whole and in the interests of the taxpayers who fund the system.