Minister for Justice Jim O’Callaghan has said around 1,000 individuals who had been identified as being “a danger to the EU”, had been prevented from entering the bloc thanks to controversial new EU border checks.<\/p>\n
The Entry\/Exit System (EES), rolled out fully in April, involves people from third countries such as the UK having their fingerprints registered and photograph taken to enter the Schengen Area, which consists of 29 European countries, mainly in the EU.<\/p>\n
However, the EES has been accused of causing huge delays at popular airports as the summer travel season takes off.<\/p>\n
Speaking in Cork following a meeting between the Government and the European Commission, Mr O’Callaghan said he had been informed by the EU’s Internal Affairs and Migration Commissioner, Magnus Brunner, that some 1,000 people who posed a risk to the EU had been prevented from entering, thanks to the EES.<\/p>\n
The minister told reporters the EES was “primarily about security for the European Union, and since it’s commenced, approximately 110 million people have gone through it.<\/p>\n
“I spoke to Commissioner Brunner in respect of this, [he said] that there are approximately 1,000 people who have been identified as being a danger to the European Union, who have been apprehended and stopped as a result of the entry-exit system.<\/p>\n
“So, I think it is effective in terms of protecting European Union security,” he said.<\/p>\n
“There is a mechanism within it as well to suspend, but in terms of the purpose of it and the effectiveness of it, having spoken to Commissioner Brunner, I believe it is an effective system.”<\/p>\n
The Schengen Area includes Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland.<\/p>\n
Ireland has maintained an opt-out from Schengen to preserve the Common Travel Area with the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Minister for Justice Jim O’Callaghan has said around 1,000 individuals who had been identified as being “a danger…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":531535,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60],"class_list":["post-531534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/531535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}