Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 14 October 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

General Scheme of the International Protection Bill 2025: Discussion

2:00 am

Ms Lorna Kavanagh:

No. The number who were reported missing in the year 2025 to date is 69. Of those, 48 have been accounted for. Two turned 18 and 19 remain missing. That is today. We are seeing an increase year on year of the number of young people who go missing. Not all, but part of the trend as we see it is that there has been a lot of young people arriving into Ireland and using it as a transit country, where they say it is never their intention to be here and they have moved on.

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