Ireland’s Open Border Deep State: How the IHREC Is Stacking the Deck Against Asylum Reform

Ireland’s Open Border Deep State: How the IHREC Is Stacking the Deck Against Asylum Reform

Approved by the Cabinet late April before being submitted to the Oireachtas Home Affairs Committee covering migration, the International Protection Bill (2025) has been marketed by Minister Jim O’Callaghan as a once in a generation opportunity to reform the Republic’s chaotic asylum regime. In May this publication provided a breakdown of the Bill with a lengthy critique of how in many respects it copperfastens the asylum free-for-all the state i…