Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent)
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693. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of cessations of refugee status and subsidiary protection sections 9 and 11 of the International Protection Act 2015 in 2020; the number of persons excluded from refugee protection and subsidiary protection sections 10 and 12 of the International Protection Act 2015; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11855/21]

Helen McEntee (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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The International Protection Act 2015, recognises that international protection ends under certain clearly defined conditions. Sections 9 and 11 contain the respective cessation provisions for both refugee status and subsidiary protection status and set out the situations where an international protection status that has been granted comes to an end.

Sections 10 and 12 of the 2015 Act set out the criteria by which individuals may be excluded from international protection because there are serious reasons/grounds for considering that they have, inter alia, committed various types of serious crimes, or that they are already receiving United Nations assistance, or that they have access to national or other protection.

The table below sets out the statistics requested by the Deputy.