Aodhán Ó Ríordáin (Dublin North Central, Labour) | Oireachtas source

It is not what is generally done. That is the whole point of the Bill. There would be no point in having a Bill with a single procedure unless we were trying to speed up the entire process and make the system work an awful lot better. The biggest problem that people come back to us with repeatedly is the length of time. The whole point of this Bill is the length of time, so to suggest that we include a definite timeline in the Bill is wrong because that is not how legislation works. The purpose of the Bill is to deal with the length of time issue.

Of the 173 recommendations in the working group report, 78 relate to the protection process, 26 of which are dealt with in this Bill, 51 relate to direct provision and 44 relate to other supports. We are implementing the direct provision report on the protection process.