Seanad debates

Thursday, 30 January 2003

Immigration Bill, 2002: Committee Stage (Resumed).

 

As the figures show, in the vast majority of instances we are only dealing with cases involving EU or EEA countries and with people who are going to member states of the European Union, in the main, with whom the procedure under the European arrest warrant is about to come into effect. We trust those countries and, therefore, this is not a final determination of whether somebody is or is not a refugee. This is simply a system for deciding on venue and we cannot put the full panoply of domestic applications into operation on a procedural jurisdictional point as to which country is appropriate for the application to be determined.

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