Intent: Legal Clarification - Agricultural & Forestry Machinery & use of Cycle Lanes / Road Edge Space
Details: Legal Clarification - Agricultural & Forestry Machinery & use of Cycle Lanes / Road Edge Space
Intent: The intended result was that the Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration would directly engage with asylum seekers on the ground to listen and hear their concerns and lived experience of the system; and facilitate representation by asylum-seeker-led groups in stakeholder forums and consultations. Additionally, that durable solutions would be identified for legacy cases and non-returnable migrants in the IPAS system.
Details: On 13/02/2026, JRS wrote to the Office of the Minister for Justice, highlighting the need for direct engagement with asylum seekers/asylum-seeker-led groups to ensure their voices and experience inform policy; to raise concerns in relation to the distress experienced by those living long term in the, ...
Intent: The intended result was a contribution to efforts to promote integration and encounter and to build an open, inclusive and dynamic Irish society in which all who reside in the country are valued and treated equally, irrespective of their colour, creed or culture.
Details: In January 2026, JRS Ireland issued a copy of the 2026 JRS Ireland Intercultural and Interfaith Calendar to a number of relevant designated public officials and raised serious concerns about increasing polarisation around migration and asylum issues in Ireland.
Intent: Amendment of the Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Act 2009 to ban upward only rent reviews in leases which pre-date February 2010
Details: The termination of upward only rent reviews
Intent: To seek dedicated funding, enhanced advice and support for business to comply with digital regulation.
Details: Balancing growth with digital compliance
Intent: Request that the Ministers consider and take corrective action on the concerns outlined
Details: Letter to express urgent concern regarding the challenges faced by persons with disabilities living within the Direct Provision system.
Intent: The intended result was to highlight the significant challenges and barriers faced by persons with disabilities in IPAS accommodation and seek action on proposed recommendations to address these issues.
Details: In October 2025, JRS Ireland was a joint signatory on a civil society letter raising concerns regarding persons with disabilities living in the IPAS accommodation system.
Intent: Meeting to discuss the findings of Migrations in Our Common HomeInside the System: A Review of Ireland’s International Protection Application Process
Details: Letter to Minister for Justice and Chair or the Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration with a request to discuss findings of Migrations in Our Common Home Inside the System: A Review of Ireland’s International Protection Application Process.
Intent: change in legislation
Details: the matter of disclosure and the protection of counselling notes of sexual violence survivors
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.
