Michael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)

These amendments are opposed because they are fundamentally at odds with the nature of the Dublin Convention as an instrument for determining which EU state – now including Iceland and Norway – is the proper one to examine a specific asylum claim. Before a person may be transferred under the convention, the commissioner is obliged to examine the relevant provisions of the convention, especially Articles 3(7), 4 to 8, inclusive, and 10 (1)(d), to determine whether the asylum application should be examined in another member state.