Ireland-UK asylum seeker row: Irish PM insists Westminster must honour current agreement

Ireland's prime minister has insisted the UK must respect an existing arrangement between the two countries to take back asylum seekers. Simon Harris told Sky News the UK must honour a deal that has been in place since 2020 as a row escalates over the Irish government's new plans to return to the UK asylum seekers who cross the border into the Republic from Northern Ireland.

'We also have a legitimate expectation that agreements between our two countries are honoured.' The row between the two countries comes as the UK government's plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda came into law last week. Ireland's deputy prime minister and foreign secretary Micheal Martin said the threat of deportation to Rwanda was causing 'fearful' migrants to head for Ireland instead of the UK.

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