Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 23 April 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion

Photo of Helen McEnteeHelen McEntee (Meath East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

We are talking about people coming into Europe. We are talking about reducing risks for children. We are talking about trying to ensure that children are not used by other people who are trying to get into the country to claim asylum. We are trying to ensure, for example, that children are not being brought into forced prostitution, which perhaps we do not realise is a massive problem. It is a greater risk when the children in question are coming from outside the EU. Of course, children can be trafficked and kidnapped and there can be issues within the EU but there is a greater risk for children outside the EU because there is not that engagement with-----

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