Calls to adopt EU model for asylum process

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Office in Ireland has called on the Government to introduce a new single, asylum process like those which operate in other EU member states.

Speaking ahead of World Refugee Day, Sophie Magennis, head of office, UNHCR Ireland, said there was an urgent need to overhaul the asylum process here to speed up the manner in which cases are dealt with.

“On World Refugee Day we remember the plight of the 42.5 million people forcibly displaced worldwide at the end of 2011, who need protection and assistance,” she said.