Intent: Meeting and to the ending of the policy that requires international protection applicants to sleep rough to demonstrate need for accommodation.
Details: Request to meet and raising concerns about homeless protection applicants
Intent: Ending of homelessness of international protection applicants. In particular the policy that people must sleep rough to demonstrate eligbility and need for accommodation.
Details: Letter to Minister for Justice about unaccommodated international protection applicants.
Intent: Halting of voluntary return communications directly to international protection applicants.
Details: Email to Deparmtent of Justice officials raising signficiant concerns regarding voluntary return proposals aimed at people in the international protection process. .
Intent: Inputs given on the Strategy from the Immigrant Council's areas of expertise and perspectives
Details: Responding to the Department of Justice Strategy Statement
Intent: To hold a meeting, which was secured. Items discussed during the meeting: Introduction of the new CEO and Immigrant Council’s strategic objectives
Details: To seek a meeting regarding changes to the Immigrant Council and discuss issues of concern to the Immigrant Council's work
Intent: The intended results of the letter are to secure a meeting with Minister Jim O' Callaghan that results in urgent action in relation to long-term accommodation needs for families and individuals in IPAS accommodation who have permission to remain in Ireland.
Details: On 24 July 2025, Conor Hickey of Crosscare and David Carroll of dePaul Ireland wrote for a second time to Minister Jim O Callaghan requesting urgent action and a meeting in relation to long-term accommodation needs for families and individuals in IPAS accommodation who have permission to remain in I, ...
Intent: Discuss implementation of the Asylum Procedures Regulation (EU) 2024/1348
Details: EU Migration & Asylum Pact
Intent: Awareness of ICI service user issues to inform reform of immigration processes
Details: Request for meeting to brief on ICI current work and priorities
Intent: Seek a meeting to discuss an issue concerning an aspect of the State’s implementation of the Asylum Procedures Regulation, a measure included in the EU Pact on Asylum and Migration in respect of which the Government has decided to participate and the lack of certainty about what constitutes “legal counselling” and who may act as a “legal counsellor” in this jurisdiction and the necessity for such services to be provided by a legal practitioner within the meaning of the 2015 Act.
Details: Implementation Plan of the EU Migration & Asylum Pact
Intent: Continued and improved communication around the family reunification process for minor refugees
Details: Attendance at meeting regarding refugee family reunification and issues arising under section 56 International Protection Act, as well as administrative processing of applications, with a particular focus on the issues arising for minor refugees
