Written answers
Wednesday, 9 March 2022
Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
International Protection
Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú)
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145. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of refugees admitted into Ireland in each year since 2011, by country in tabular form [13283/22]
Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party)
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I am not currently in a position to supply details for refugees admitted between 2011 and 2014 but I will revert to the Deputy with that information.
The table below sets out the number of refugees brought into Ireland through the Irish Refugee Protection Programme (IRPP) which was established in 2015.
A total of 3,320 people have been brought in through IRPP since 2015. Please find the breakdown of their country of nationality, by year, below:
2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Iraq | 27 | 63 | 23 | 5 | 19 | 7 | |
| Syria | 136 | 531 | 771 | 604 | 764 | 195 | 92 |
| Irish born | 15 | 11 | 9 | 19 | 2 | ||
| Palestine | 10 | 1 | |||||
| Libya | 1 | ||||||
| Afghanistan | 13 | ||||||
| Myanmar | 2 | ||||||
| Total | 163 | 619 | 807 | 618 | 802 | 197 | 114 |
In addition to the 3,320 persons outlined in the table above, I can also inform the Deputy that there were 404 Afghans arrivals in 2021 and 29 Afghans in 2022 in Ireland through IRPP as Humanitarian aid cases.
The Irish Refugee Protection Programme Humanitarian Admission Programme (IHAP) administered by the Department of Justice is a further channel for admitting refugees to Ireland and that Department can supply details for this scheme.
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