Ireland Promises Tougher Asylum Rules to Ensure Migrants Continue Heading to Britain
Ireland will introduce tougher asylum rules to counter any new measures brought in by Labour and ensure migrants continue heading to Britain, Ireland’s Justice Minister has said. The Mail has the story.
Jim O’Callaghan said the UK’s new proposals could alter the flow of asylum seekers between the two countries and insisted Ireland would not become a more attractive destination than Britain.
In a statement on Tuesday, he said: “I am committed to ensuring that Ireland is not viewed more favourably than the UK by those seeking to claim asylum.
“Consequently, I will closely monitor the changes proposed by the UK Government and will respond to those proposals having considered them fully and discussed them with government colleagues.”
Mr O’Callaghan is due to publish a new International Protection Bill later this year and said “any necessary changes arising from the UK’s change of policy” can be included.
Among the UK measures, there will be no automatic right to family reunion for refugees under core protection.
Mr O’Callaghan said he had already directed a review of Ireland’s rules on family reunification before the UK changes – with proposals to be brought to Cabinet “shortly”.
At the British-Irish Intergovernmental Conference on Monday, Mr O’Callaghan added Ireland would need to be “nimble” in responding to any future UK changes and warned that shifts in British asylum policy can directly affect movements into Ireland.
New figures published on Tuesday highlight the scale of Ireland’s current asylum accommodation pressures.
More than €1.1 billion has been spent on accommodating asylum seekers and Ukrainian refugees in the first three quarters of this year, the figures reveal.
An analysis by the Irish Daily Mail of a database compiled by Fianna Fáil TD Albert Dolan shows that Ireland has spent almost €7 billion accommodating asylum seekers and Ukrainian refugees since 2012.
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I wonder what the split in Ireland’s spending is between the dodgy ‘asylum seeking’ immigrants and those escaping a genuine war in Ukraine where they would be rounded up and sent to a futile death on the front. The point being that there should come a time – possibly sooner than the legacy media would have you believe – that the Ukrainians will be safe to return home.
There was a story on the R4 W at One programme along the lines of the Ukrainian army being short of recruits. They even used the term “press gang” as a method of recruitment.
How long before someone in our Government jumps on this news to suggest that it supports the idea of closer ties with the EU? Perhaps they should throw more cash at the Irish government, as they have with the French government. (It won’t matter how ineffectual it all is.)
A rare moment of honesty. The only way to deter illegal migrants is to make it less attractive to arrive than to stay put.
This is a good thing and hopefully will lead to an ‘arms race’ in who can be least attractive to illegal immigrants.
I foresee that the developed nations of the world will eventually form a ‘global remigration pact’, where the EU, UK, USA etc form an agreement to penalise countries (e.g. tariffs, travel bans and so on) that do not accept the return of their citizens/co-ethnics. You read it here first folks.
I hope your prediction comes true. As Ross Clark points out in his article in today’s DS News Round-Up, the most effective penalty is to cut off all Foreign Aid to those nations. “The fatal flaw in Shabana Mahmood’s migration plan” – Writing in the Spectator, Ross Clark points out a large hole at the centre of the new migration policy. Rupert Lowe would agree with him on that: Rupert Lowe MP on X: “We don’t need to cut foreign aid. We need to abolish foreign aid. All of it. Not a penny more. When Britain is in such a horrific state, we simply can’t afford it. It’s just not possible. If MPs want to approve specific projects on a case-by-case basis? Then we should vote on” / X Rupert Lowe MP on X: “All foreigners currently claiming benefits should be cut off – no more Universal Credit, no more disability benefits, no more housing benefits. No more. Not only that, if they arrived in the country illegally? They should be immediately deported. If they arrived in the country” / X Rupert Lowe MP on X: “We need to create such a hostile environment for illegal migrants that none will even… Read more »
Hear, hear!
I am angry at Ireland today, and this article makes me even angrier at Ireland, not so much for their treachery in funnelling illegals to Britain, but for their endless VINDICTIVE CATHOLIC REVENGE in throwing out Boris Johnson’s greatest achievement, The Legacy Act, for which he should have received the Nobel Peace Prize, instead of that Ingrate Afghan Malala now busy stabbing us all in the back, with her typically irritating Subcontinental accent sounding like a burbling toad.
How many Irish citizens resident in Britain and allowed to vote in British elections voted for Labour with the express purpose of overturning The Legacy Act, I wonder?
And how can any member of the UK Parliament possibly justify the relentless hounding of British Army Veterans with lawfare while simultaneously insisting on the TOTAL IMMUNITY FROM PROSECUTION of ALL CATHOLIC IRA TERRORISTS?
It’s an outrageous travesty of justice, that NO INDIGENOUS BRITON WANTED OR VOTED FOR.
So where did all the votes come from?
The Irish don’t need to worry …. at the moment. Mahmood’s “proposals” were just performative: they’ll never see the Statute Book under Labour.
When (if) Reform becomes the Government, THEN they might want to take notice.