Intent: 'Express concerns regarding the family reunification visa process, highlighting the impact for our members and the challenges for the labour market. Also requested a meeting with officials to further discuss.'
Details: Express concerns of the family reunification visa process
Intent: Resources allocated to the criminal justice system may be diverted to other departments of government for a more holistic appraoch to social issues and investment in underserved communities
Details: Highlighting findings and relevant recommendations from IPRT's recent report 'From Punishment to Prevention' and calling for the redirection of government investment to prevention and diversion strategies
Intent: An end to the policy of not offering international protection applicants accommodation on arrival. And in the meantime, changes to the rough sleeper verification process.
Details: Meeting with Department of Justice officials about international protection homelessness
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: 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, ...