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Also, if people are interested, the Government earlier this week released their implementation plans for the EU Migration and Asylum Pact. You can read it here.
Basic gist of it is that the state plans to take on €32M worth of new staff to deal with between 10-18,000 asylum seekers a year. They also plan to spend €875M on acquiring beds for those asylum seekers, and then €725M a year on running the facilities.
They’re hoping to lower processing time from 29 months, which costs €122,867 per applicant, to 9 months, at a cost of €49,692.
They’ll also be replacing the current appeals system.