Asylum minister Marjolein Faber has suggested to set an evening clock in a difficult debate for asylum seekers staying at the registration center in Ter Apel. “If your room wanted to, I want to start thinking about stricter rules,” was the suggestion of the PVV minister. He followed hard criticism, mainly from the opposition, that she does not do enough to limit the nuisance for people in Ter Apel.
According to Faber, a large part of the problems takes place in the evenings. “For example, you can say that we make a kind of evening clock,” said Faber. She said to be willing to investigate, which will take about one to two months. There was an enthusiasm for that at coalition parties PVV and NSC.
Opposition parties remained with their criticism of the minister, who, for example,, for example, SP and CDA should have intervened much earlier. “The minister has therefore not been able to do anything in seven months,” concluded SP’er Michiel van Nispen.
GroenLinks-PvdA MP Kati Piri reacted indignantly to the suggestion of Faber to a curfew. The parliamentarian called it a “spontaneous plan”, for which she thinks there is no legal basis. According to Piri, measures that work better, such as faster procedures and a better distribution across the country of disadvantaged asylum seekers, get too little attention from the minister.
“With that she just lets people in Ter Apel be abandoned,” Piri Faber bit. The minister responded fiercely: “I don’t want to make an asylum seekers center from the whole of the Netherlands, as GroenLinks-PvdA wants.”
The opposition was frustrated about the debate style of Faber, which MPs were regularly reasonable. The minister also often lashed out at parties from the minister’s profession. Acting Chamber President Aukje de Vries warned both minister and parliamentarians that they had to speak less often before their turn. Faber was also asked to “lure” MPs less often and ask to answer more directly.
In the debate, the VVD Government Party announced that it would come up with a proposal to be able to secure nuisance asylum seekers from 1 March. That plan can count on broad support. A reporting obligation for nuisance perpetrators as Faber suggested, the parties does not go far enough. Fixing nuisance asylum seekers from safe countries at so -called process availability locations was previously declared unlawful, but the House thinks it can find a legal basis for this.