Asylum system overhaul called for

FINE Gael has called for the asylum system to be overhauled to ensure applicants do not have to endure “an endless legal limbo”.

A fair, transparent and expeditious process was crucial, the party’s justice spokesman Jim O’Keeffe said yesterday.

“Those who are entitled should be accorded their rights to live and work in Ireland. Those who are not so entitled should have their cases dealt with expeditiously so they are not consigned to an endless legal limbo,” he said.