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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, December 12, 2016

MOTION NO.1

MOTION: Councillor G. O'Connell

MAYORS BUSINESS

This Council, conscious of the fact that there is a Direct Provision Centre located in this County and that some residents of the facility both individuals and families, have been detained there for up to nine years, now requests that the Chief Executive write to both the Minister for Justice and the Minister for Foreign Affairs deploring this denial of human rights and calling on them to have legislation urgently updated so that the status of asylum seeks/refugees can be decided in the shortest possible time, preferably within nine months of their arrival, and, that they be allowed to seek and take up employment on a permit bases while their status is being considered. That this motion be copied to all other City and County Councils.

REPORT:

If the Motion is passed a letter will issue to the appropriate Minister, and when a reply is received it will be issued to the Members.