Ireland won’t be ‘loophole’ for other countries’ migration issues says premier Simon Harris

The Irish Government has said there has been a shift in migration patterns into Ireland in recent months, ITV News Political Correspondent Carl Dinnen reports

Legislation is to be introduced next week in response to an Irish High Court ruling that Ireland’s designation of the UK as a “safe third country” for returning asylum seekers, in the context of the Rwanda plan, is contrary to EU law.The UK’s Rwanda plan aims to send asylum seekers to the east African nation to deter others from crossing the English Channel on small boats.

Asked on Sunday whether the increase in asylum seekers travelling from the UK to Ireland suggested the Rwanda policy was working, Mr Harris said: “I’m not going to comment on whether the British migration policy is working, that’s a matter for him to put to the British people. “It is a statement of fact that there was a returns agreement in place between Ireland and Britain, and there was a High Court decision in the month of March in relation to that.“My colleague, the Minister for Justice, will now bring forward legislative proposals to Cabinet on Tuesday that will seek to put in place a new returns policy. We’re going to await the full details of that but it’s one which will effectively allow, again, people to be returned to the United Kingdom.

Irish Justice Minister Helen McEntee had been due to meet Home Secretary James Cleverly on Monday, but a note was sent out late on Sunday to say the meeting had been postponed. “I am the First Minister in the north and I have yet to hear from the Taoiseach or the Tanaiste or the Justice Minister,” she said in Dublin on Sunday morning.

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