Member

I am eager for us to make concrete progress on improving access to justice in this area of immigration detention. The current system is not working, and serious steps need to be taken to fix it. This amendment has the advantage, perhaps, of being consistent both with principle—the requirement that all asylum seekers in custody should have early and effective legal advice—and with practicality and good sense, at no extra cost. Indeed, this is an opportunity to save overall public funds. I beg to move.