International Protection
Dail Éireann — 2021-06-03
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Cathal Crowe (FF), Clare

It is great to see the team of the Minister and the Ministers of State here divvying up the workload of the Department. It is progressive politics and I am glad to see that the Minister, Deputy McEntee, has since had her baby and all is going well on that front.
I want to ask our team serving the Department of Justice how the processing of international protection applications is going.
Has it been stymied or delayed in any way by Covid-19? What mitigating measures are being taken by the Department to speed things up a little bit?

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Sitting date: 2021-06-03