Section 16 of the Refugee Act contains the provisions dealing with appeals and is amended in three respects in this group of amendments. The first is consequential on the fact that no appeal will lie from the negative recommendation given where an application is withdrawn at first instance. The second puts in place provisions similar to those for the first instance investigation where the applicant appears not to be co-operating with the appeals process. As with the first instance, an applicant who is not responding to letters, has left the country or is otherwise not at the address supplied or is failing to meet a requirement to report regularly to a garda will be sent a last chance letter. Failure to respond results in the appeal being deemed withdrawn. I will bring forward a further amendment to the proposed section 16(2B) which will restrict its application to the cases covered by paragraph (a), that is, where the applicant leaves or attempts to leave the State without the permission of the Minister.