Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

These amendments deal with the contents of the written report prepared after an examination of an applicant. Amendment No. 47 is required to allow persons contracted by the Minister under section 73 to include any of the findings under section 38 (4) in the written report prepared under section 38 (1). Amendment No. 48 clarifies that the recommendation of the international protection officer under section 38 (3) shall be based on the examination of the application. Amendments No. 49 is consequential to amendment No. 47. Amendment No. 50 removes unnecessary wording from the subsection while amendment No. 51 is consequential to amendment No. 46. Amendment No. 54 provides that the Minister will prescribe a timeframe for a person appealing a recommendation that he or she should not be given refugee status, a refugee declaration or a subsidiary protection declaration. This is building in timelines which is precisely what people argued had been lacking in the procedures to date, with many people awaiting the outcome of their applications for protracted periods of time.