Seanad debates

Tuesday, 4 February 2003

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

 

I see what the Senator is attempting to achieve but we are dealing with a process that must, in the interest of the applicant, remain secret. Applicants in all cases are given the reasons for the failure of applications and there is is nothing to prevent an applicant from publishing his or her decision if he or she wishes to do so and take the consequences. However, to require the State to spend hours and hours effectively falsifying the record so as to remove any identifying material would not simply be a waste of time but positively misleading and lead journalists looking at the documents to say the grounds given were flimsy because they would not be aware that material which made the decision entirely reasonable had been excised.

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