The federal government has admitted that the brand new threshold can be exceeded, a rise of half in comparison with final yr.
The continued inflow calls into query earlier Coalition claims that folks had been crossing the border from Northern Eire out of worry of the previous British authorities's Rwanda coverage.
A brand new Labor authorities has been in energy in London because the election firstly of July, and the specter of deportations from Rwanda has been quashed. However the variety of new arrivals looking for worldwide safety in Eire continues unabated.
The violation of 20,000 arrivals in 2024 is in comparison with 13,277 purposes for worldwide safety in 2023. Justice Minister Helen McEntee briefed the federal government on the state of affairs this week.
She had argued that the variety of new arrivals had fallen considerably because of the accelerated processing of worldwide safety (IP) introduced earlier this yr.
She additionally up to date her colleagues on measures to enhance the IP system and progress in getting ready to implement the EU asylum and migration pact, which the federal government hopes will gradual flows to the European Union's outer edges.
However after document numbers of IP registrations in 2022 and 2023, the development continued “upward in 2024,” a authorities spokesman admitted.
On the finish of September, there have been 15,496 purposes, which already exceeds the entire variety of IP purposes in 2023. Ukrainian refugees fall into the separate class of non permanent safety, and their numbers listed here are declining.
“As issues stand, there could possibly be 20,000 IP registrations this yr,” admitted the spokesman.
Minister McEntee has taken a number of steps to strengthen the immigration system, together with suspending visa-free journey to Eire for refugees who maintain a doc issued by one other state.
Bolivia, Botswana, Dominica, Honduras and Vanuatu now require extra visas, bringing Irish visa necessities extra in keeping with these of the UK and Schengen international locations.
Immigration Police at Dublin Airport have elevated their doorstep operations, finishing up over 6,000 such operations thus far this yr.
Ms McEntee additionally outlined progress in direction of civilizing the Garda: 100 extra Gardaí had been relieved of immigration management duties and their duties had been being taken over by civil servants.