Written answers
Thursday, 27 April 2006
Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
Asylum Applications
5:00 pm
Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 159: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of persons who have applied for asylum here in each of the past five years; the number approved, deferred or refused or pending in the same time; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15907/06]
Michael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)
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The information requested by the Deputy is set out in tabular format below.
Table 1: The number of asylum applications received by the Office of the Refugee Applications Commissioner and details of those granted and refused at first instance. | |||
Year | No. of Asylum Applications Received | No. of Recommendations to grant refugee status (at first instance) | Asylum Applications Refused (at first instance) |
2001 | 10,325 | 459 | 6,505 |
2002 | 11,634 | 894 | 7,466 |
2003 | 7,900 | 345 | 7,847 |
2004 | 4,766 | 430 | 6,460 |
2005 | 4,323 | 455 | 4,787 |
Table 2: The number of appeals* of first instance recommendations made to the Refugee Appeals Tribunal where the first instance recommendation was affirmed and details of the number of appeals resulting in the granting of refugee status. | ||
Year | Appeals processed to decision where the first instance recommendation of ORAC was affirmed* | No. of appeals upheld (granted refugee status)* |
2001 | 1,460 | 482 |
2002 | 3,599 | 1,099 |
2003 | 3,769 | 832 |
2004 | 5,394 | 708 |
2005 | 3,405 | 511 |
*Substantive and accelerated appeals only. Some appeals may be withdrawn before a decision is made at the appeal stage and there are also a number of manifestly unfounded appeals and appeals under the EU Dublin Convention/Regulation in each of the years set out in this table. |
Table 3: The number of cases pending at the end of each year in each of the organisations and the number of cases pending for over 6 months at the end of each year. | ||||
Year | ORAC — Cases pending at year end | RAT — Cases pending at year end | Cases pending for more than six months in each agency (combined) | Total cases pending at year end |
2001 | 8,483 | 2,641 | 6,500* | 11,124 |
2002 | 5,094 | 2,456 | n/a | 7,550 |
2003 | 4,554 | 2,836 | 2,896 | 7,390 |
2004 | 2,350 | 1,346 | 1,144 | 3,696 |
2005 | 1,169 | 1,267 | 433 | 2,436 |
* This figure relates to the position at the end of September 2001. |
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