Passport Control at Dublin Airport
Last month, on December 15, the Minister for Justice Francis Fitzgerald told the Dáil the following number of people, of certain nationalities, were refused permission to enter Ireland last year – and subsequently deported: Syrian 59; Afghan 139; Eritrean 11; and Iranian 44.
In addition, Ms Fitzgerald stated:
“I would advise the Deputy [Padraig Mac Lochlainn] that persons refused leave to land and who are subsequently removed from the State are returned to their point of embarkation, which in most cases is within the EU. I would point out in relation to the countries concerned that no commercial direct flights to Ireland are available from these countries.”
Further to this, the CEO of the Irish Refugee Council Sue Conlan has released a statement this evening, saying:
“It is unfortunate that the State refuses leave to land to nationals of these countries during the greatest refugee crisis since World War II. According to the United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees, 75% of Syrians and Eritreans require international protection, which suggests that the State potentially turned away some 50 refugees from its borders last year. Nationals of Afghanistan and Iran are also likely to be fleeing persecution. We regret that they were refused leave to land and not admitted to the State to have their protection needs assessed.”
“People are refused leave to land in closed rooms in airports. They are refused leave to land in circumstances where they have no access to lawyers or legal information, no clarity around their rights. An estimated 3,000 people [in total] were refused leave to land in Ireland last year, about the same number who applied for asylum. The Irish Refugee Council spoke with a very small number of those. What we heard concerns us. We call on the Minister to release the full details of refusals of leave to land not only of these nationalities but of all nationalities and to provide greater clarity around the process.”
Refusals of leave to land are alarming, says Irish Refugee Council (IRC)
Previously: Pawns In The Game
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I agree that Ireland needs to up its game and allow in more refugees. It’s shameful that the numbers admitted are so low.
But in the cases referred above, how many of them requested refugee status before they were sent back?
GNIB cannot process a refugee unless that person or persons ask for it.
If they’re being denied leave to land then I don’t think they’re actually in a position to claim asylum and refusal of that permission is based very much on the discretion of the officer at the airport.
http://brophysolicitors.ie/refusal-of-permission-of-leave-to-land/
(More info is on citizensinformation.ie and irishstatutebook.ie but I can’t get to them for whatever reason right now)
Passport control doing its job, whatsuo with that? Not news worthy
Blah blah blah Whine whine whine this is so unfair
Saint Paul Says
You in fact, are the moan. A dim one at that. Where can we send you off to?
“Lyrics to Morrissey B-side* leaked online”.
* realises use of term B-side ages one horrifically.
A rare voice of sanity in the cesspool
Predictable, like those bland numb skulls in school who thought Duran Duran were a good band even though their songs were about nothing.
ha
Seeing as there are no direct flights from these countries, I don’t know what “upping our game” means.
Housing people who don’t like the UK, or think France isn’t good enough for them?
If you want to put them up in your own gaff, fair enough.
Go on, call me a racist for having the temerity to point out that these “asylum seekers” are just
chancing their arm.
Considering the UK is responsible for over 600,000 deaths after the invasion of Iraq and routinely sends innocent people to be tortured in third party nations like Algeria I wouldn’t stay there either.
Have you heard of Shannon airport?….At least the UK take some sort of responsibility for their role..
To be fair, like.
All of them?
Ethiopian airlines fly here regularly direct from Addis.
Fair play to passport control.
Why were they refused entry? Perhaps they were considered dangerous?
Why put them on a plane to Ireland in 1st place if they can’t gain entry? United Nations are a bunch of united fools…
this isn’t Nam ,CEO of the Irish Refugee Council , there are rules !
What’s the process for claiming refugee status exactly?
Surely if your country is getting bombed to oblivion, you just get the fupp outta there and apply for refugee status when you get to another country.. Granted us being an island nation and all, they probably aren’t getting to us first, but aren’t we supposed to be taking refugess? Exporting yet another problem..
Did they request asylum in Ireland?
I doubt it if they were fupped back from where they came from..
How are you supposed to go about it in advance if you’re getting bombed out of it? It’s not quite like applying for a visa is it..
So if they were unwilling to request asylum, and had no visa then they were rightly sent back to where the came from.
I feel the this report is disingenuous as it does not present all the facts, key points are missing.
“So if they were unwilling to request asylum,”
Stop acting thick..
As global inequality worsens this migration issue is only going to get worse. Do we A : take the Australian hard line option? Or B: take Peter ” Goldman Sachs”Sutherland option, that is to say allow several million in, nowhere near where he lives of course, and ask the working class to squeeze a little tighter
As long they don’t live anywhere near me, yeah sure let them all in. One love. Fair society, equal rights. Sure what could go wrong, U.K. & merica are great places to bring up a family safely
Yeah I forgot that the UK was a war zone
There will always be warzones thanks to Merica & the UK.
Well done Passport control doing their jobs properly.
We need a World War to sort out the selfish pricks from the real humanity and remind the people of what’s most important in life…. People.
So your advocating a mass genocide to get your political way? Your actually mental…… Do you even think about what your saying?