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	The Chief Executive of the Irish Refugee Council has resigned from a Government-appointed group examining the direct provision system for asylum seekers.</p>
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	Sue Conlan&#39;s decision comes directly in response to the publication this week by Minister for Justice Frances Fitzgerald of the heads of the International Protection Bill aimed at simplifying the asylum process.</p>
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	In her resignation letter, she said it was regrettable that the Working Group was not allowed &quot;have sight of and indeed comment upon&quot; the heads of the bill.</p>
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	Ms Conlan said her sense of the bill is that it is too much of an &quot;enforcement measure&quot;.</p>
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	She also said that any attempt by the Working Group to &quot;propose change which involves legislation, such as putting accommodation and support in a bill or changing legislation to extend the role of the Ombudsman or Children&#39;s Ombudsman has been resisted by the Department of Justice&quot;.</p>
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	<a href="http://www.rte.ie/news/2015/0327/690138-direct-provision-working-group/">http://www.rte.ie/news/2015/0327/690138-direct-provision-working-group/</a></p>
