Direct Provision System
Dail Éireann — 2024-02-29
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Roderic O'Gorman (GP), Dublin West

-----more than 100,000 Ukrainians and allow them integrate into communities all over the country.
Regarding IP the system was not fit for purpose. It was a system in which people were spending from six to eight years trying to get their application processed. That is why the Minister, Deputy McEntee, has made major changes. She has doubled the number of staff in the international protection office. The staff are processing more than 1,000 applications every month to give people their first-instance decision. We have examined the safe country list and expanded that where it is relevant. We have put in place changes such as removing the visa waiver for those who have received international protection elsewhere. We have a rules-based system and we have improved those rules.

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