Refugees

Helen McEntee welcomes ‘more sustainable’ EU migration pact

The justice minister said the more streamlined rules would make it easier to return asylum seekers to the original EU state they arrived in

The government will have to make a formal decision on whether to sign up to the new asylum seeker agreement, which was agreed by the EU justice ministers yesterday

Helen McEntee, the Minister for Justice, has welcomed a new EU deal which will speed up the return of asylum seekers who have entered Ireland having arrived in another member state.

The government will have to make a formal decision on whether to sign up to the new asylum seeker agreement, which was agreed by the EU justice ministers yesterday.

It will replace the current “Dublin regulation” which is supposed to allow for an asylum ...