Seanad debates

Tuesday, 4 February 2003

Immigration Bill 2002: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage.

 

It is not as easy as the Senator's amendment suggests to go through a document and put a black mark through a proper name every time one comes across it. That would not suffice. One would have to spend hours going through these decisions to make the applicant unidentifiable. One would have to do this in every case if it was mandatory. It would take hours, possibly days, out of the tribunal's working week to try to sanitise its own decisions. One would end up with documents which had so much black marker all over them, or so many deletions if the work was done on a word processor, that they would be virtually unintelligible and not simply useless but positively misleading because the grounds on which someone was disbelieved would be so personal as to identify them. Furthermore, the decision would look very strange because the tribunal member would appear to disbelieve an applicant on very flimsy grounds because he or she might have had to excise a whole paragraph which might have identified the applicant.

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