Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent)
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573. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 340 of 24 March 2022, the number of review applications that have been received since the scheme closed in 2019; the number of applications granted on review; the number of applications and review applications currently being processed by her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [58084/22]

Helen McEntee (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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The Irish Refugee Protection Programme Humanitarian Admission Programme (IHAP) was announced in May 2018.

The processing of applications made under the IHAP programme is the only element of the IRPP that remains under my Department's remit following the transfer of this function to the Minister for Children, Disability, Equality, Integration and Youth on 14 October 2020.

The programme allowed holders of an international protection status in Ireland, (i.e. refugees with Convention or Programme Refugee status), holders of Subsidiary Protection grants, and Irish citizens to make a proposal to me to bring to the State their family members who are nationals of one of the top ten major source countries of refugees as identified by the UNHCR Annual Global Trends Report.

I can confirm that no new applications have been received since the scheme closed in 2019. Since the closing of the scheme 85 review applications have been received with 34 granted, 36 refused and 15 on hand at various stages of processing.