Dogwhistle or Reform: Inside O’Callaghan’s New Asylum Bill

Dogwhistle or Reform: Inside O’Callaghan’s New Asylum Bill

A Fianna Fáil-led attempt to transpose the EU Migration Pact into law is perhaps the first instance in which the protests of the past two years have had a direct impact on legislation, for better or worse. Minister Jim O’Callaghan outlined the bones of the International Protection Bill 2025 to Cabinet on Tuesday with the aim of it landing on the President’s desk by early next year. Meant to be a timely update to a previous 2015 act in light of E…