Irish government wants to return asylum seekers to UK

The Taoiseach (Irish premier minister) Simon Harris has asked Ireland's justness curate to bring authorities to furniture to alteration asylum seekers to beryllium sent backmost to the UK.

Helen McEntee has revealed that 80% of caller arrivals to the Republic came from the UK crossed the Irish border.

Tánaiste (deputy premier minister) Micheál Martin said the UK's Rwanda argumentation was already impacting Ireland.

Legislation to revive the UK's Rwanda argumentation became instrumentality connected Thursday.

It aims to deter radical from crossing the English Channel by sending immoderate asylum seekers to the cardinal African country.

No migrants person yet been sent from the UK.

The UK authorities had hoped for flights to instrumentality disconnected by the outpouring but Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says this should present hap wrong 10 to 12 weeks.

A spokesperson for Mr Harris said the taoiseach had asked Ms McEntee "to bring proposals to furniture adjacent week to amend existing instrumentality regarding the designation of harmless 'third countries' and allowing the instrumentality of inadmissible planetary extortion applicants to the UK", Irish broadcaster RTÉ reported connected Saturday.

Speaking connected RTÉ's Six One News, Ms McEntee said: "There are galore reasons wherefore we person seen an summation successful migration toward Ireland.

"What's wide successful the determination that the UK person taken successful choosing Brexit, they person really seen an summation successful radical seeking asylum successful their country. The mode that they woody with that, it's their policy.

"My absorption arsenic curate for justness is making definite that we person an effectual migration operation and system.

"That's wherefore I'm introducing accelerated processing. That's wherefore I'll person exigency authorities astatine furniture this week to marque definite that we tin efficaciously instrumentality radical to the UK and that's wherefore I'll beryllium gathering with the Home Secretary [James Cleverly] to rise these issues connected Monday."

A spokesperson for the Irish Department of Justice told BBC News NI that "the contented of irregular question wrong the CTA" - the Common Travel Area betwixt Britain and Ireland - would beryllium discussed astatine the ministers' meeting.

Earlier successful the week, Ms McEntee told a committee of the Oireachtas (Irish Parliament) determination had been a emergence successful the fig of radical crossing the onshore borderline betwixt Northern Ireland and the Republic, with this present making up 80% of the full fig of asylum seekers.

In effect to her comments, Mr Martin said the UK government's Rwanda argumentation meant radical were "fearful" of staying successful the UK and were crossing the borderline to the Republic truthful they would not beryllium sent to Rwanda. Mr Martin, who besides serves arsenic Ireland's overseas minister, has spoken of his absorption to the policy.

On Sky News connected Sunday, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was asked whether Mr Martin's comments showed the UK was "exporting the problem".

Mr Sunak replied: "The deterrent is - according to your remark - already having an impact, due to the fact that radical are disquieted astir coming present and that demonstrates precisely what I'm saying: if radical travel to our state illegally, but cognize that they won't beryllium capable to stay, they're overmuch little apt to come."

His comments travel reports that astir 350 migrants crossed the Channel to England successful tiny boats connected Saturday. The French authorities rescued a further 99 radical successful 3 boats who had got successful trouble astatine sea.

Mr Sunak told Sky News that amerciable migration arsenic a "global problem" and said galore countries were looking to replicate "third-country partnerships" akin to the statement struck betwixt the UK and Rwanda.

The Safety of Rwanda Act, which aims to debar further ineligible challenges to the argumentation by declaring Rwanda a harmless country, was approved by MPs and peers this week and passed into instrumentality connected Thursday - althoughthe program could inactive beryllium held up by tribunal challenges.

In the UK, politicians person besides been discussing reducing nett migration - with erstwhile migration curate Robert Jenrick connected Sunday calling for a "far much restrictive system".

Writing successful the Sunday Telegraph, Mr Jenrick criticised "politicians of each stripes" who person failed to present connected "promises to power and trim the levels of ineligible migration" successful the past 30 years - and said helium wanted to spot nett migration capped astatine "tens of thousands" of people.

Policing Minister Chris Philp said helium was "not successful a presumption to... advocator for a hard cap" connected migration levels, but the authorities was introducing measures to trim ineligible migration numbers by astir "300,000 a year."

Mr Philp besides made a plea to migrants considering making the unsafe Channel crossing from Europe, saying: "Please don't bash it. It is dangerous, it is illegal, and it is unnecessary."