Commission calls for "redress" for asylum seekers

The Chief Commissioner (designate) of the new Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (IHREC), has said a new system of redress needs to be put in place urgently for asylum seekers.

Commission calls for "redress" for asylum seekers

Emily Logan, who has just taken on the role after a decade as the Ombudsman for Children, said there was “no proper inspection” of Direct Provision centres.

“We have not put in place a framework to allow those families and those children to tell us what is happening in a way that any other family would be afforded,” Ms Logan told the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality, adding that a report would be published in November.

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