Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 6 December 2022
481. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice the number of applications for asylum in Ireland that have been refused for each of the past ten years in real numbers and as the percentage of the total number of applicants. [60762/22]
Amharc ar fhreagraUnfortunately it is not possible to provide the Deputy with the information requested regarding the number of refused applications as a percentage of all applications, as the IPO do not maintain statistics in this manner.
Decisions on international protection are made by the Ministerial Decisions Unit (MDU) of my Department. MDU processes the recommendations received from the International Protection Office (IPO) and the decisions of the International Protection Appeals Tribunal (IPAT).
The International Protection Office (IPO) makes first instance recommendations in respect of international protection (refugee status and subsidiary protection) as well as decisions on permission to remain. Where an international protection applicant has been refused international protection, as part of a single procedure, a decision will be made on whether or not to grant the applicant permission to remain in the State. Therefore a proportion of persons listed in the tables below will have subsequently granted permission to remain in the State.
When considering the figures in Table 1 below on refusals it is important to note that the figures provided relate to the year in which the decision was made, which may not be the year in which the application was made. The data in the table is also based on application numbers and not applicant numbers, as an application may include more than one applicant.
The figures below include decisions refused under the Subsidiary Protection Regulation 2013 and 2006 and under both the Refugee Act 1996 (as amended) and the International Protection Act 2015.
Refusals of International Protection per year (by application) 2013 to end November 2022*
|
Year |
Total number of refusals of Refugee Status and Subsidiary Protection Status |
|
2013 |
770 |
|
2014 |
1,547 |
|
2015 |
2,244 |
|
2016 |
2,070 |
|
2017 |
408 |
|
2018 |
551 |
|
2019 |
1,745 |
|
2020 |
951 |
|
2021 |
981 |
|
2022 |
3,530 |
|
Total |
14,797 |
*Refusals that were quashed or overturned are only excluded if the decision to quash or overturn the refusal occurred within the same year as the original refusal for that application
Total Applicants for International Protection to the International Protection Office 2013- November 2022
|
Year |
Number of Applications |
|
2013 |
974 |
|
2014 |
1,856 |
|
2015 |
5,193 |
|
2016 |
4,249 |
|
2017 |
2,920 |
|
2018 |
3,674 |
|
2019 |
4,780 |
|
2020 |
1,566 |
|
2021 |
2,648 |
|
2022 |
12,453 |
|
Total |
40,313 |
