Submission for the Twelfth Session of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review: Ireland (2011)
This joint submission by IRC, Nasc, and Doras Luimni addresses key concerns regarding Irish government policies and practices concerning asylum seekers, refugees, and migrants. The areas of concern include detention, appeal restrictions, deportation, direct provision facilities, family reunification delays, and the rights of separated children seeking asylum.
Introduction
This is a submission from the Irish Refugee Council (IRC), Nasc, the Irish Immigrant Support Centre, and Doras Luimni. The IRC is a membership-based, independent non-governmental organisation which advocates on behalf of asylum seekers and refugees in Dublin in the East of Ireland. Nasc, the Irish Immigrant Support Centre, seeks to respond to the needs of migrants, providing particular support services to asylum seekers and refugees in Cork in the South of ireland. Doras Luimni is a migrant support organisation, whose client base is made up of a wide variety of status type migrants including asylum seekers and refugees in Limerick in the Midwest of Ireland.
This submission raises concerns and gives recommendations in relation to the law, policy and practice of the Irish government in relation to asylum seekers, recognised refugees and migrants. The key areas of concern are the detention of asylum seekers, the lack of single procedure for refugee and subsidiary protection claims, the restriction on what decisions can be appealed to the Refugee Appeals Tribunal, deportation procedures, the facilities and the long time spent in the direct provision and dispersal system, delays in family reunification and the rights of separated children seeking asylum.
