Pa Daly (Kerry, Sinn Fein)
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589. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons that were granted permission to remain or refugee status in each of the years 2019 to 2021; and the number of cases considered in those years in tabular form. [6602/22]

Helen McEntee (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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The figures requested by the Deputy are set out in the tables below.

The International Protection Office of my Department makes a first instance recommendation and decisions in respect of international protection are then made by the Ministerial Decisions Unit of my Department.

Grants of International Protection by the Ministerial Unit Decisions by year and type*

*These figures are in respect of the year in which the decision was taken and not the year in which the application was made.

Where an applicant has been refused international protection, as part of a single procedure, a decision will be made on whether or not to grant the applicant permission to remain in the State. The table below provides details of the number of grants of permission to remain made in the years sought by the Deputy.

Grants of Permission to Remain at First Instance

If an applicant is refused either refugee status or subsidiary protection or both, the recommendation can be appealed to the International Protection Appeals Tribunal (IPAT). If the Tribunal upholds the refusal, and the applicant has been refused permission to remain by the IPO, the refusal of permission to remain will be reviewed on foot of further submissions from the applicant.

The table below provides the statistics requested in respect of such cases: