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.

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.