Matt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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566. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will publish the national implementation plan for the EU Migration and Asylum Pact, which he brought to Cabinet on 25 March 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15465/25]

Jim O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay South, Fianna Fail)
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The EU Asylum and Migration Pact will significantly reform the approach to migration and asylum both in Ireland and across the EU by providing a faster, more streamlined, and fairer system for addressing the challenges faced in this area.

The Pact will harmonise asylum procedures and processes across the EU and comes into effect in June 2026. Ireland, along with all the other Member States, has until then to implement the necessary changes to our systems and our legislation.

A dedicated team and a Pact Implementation Programme Board was established by my Department to coordinate this multi-faceted national programme.

Ireland’s national implementation plan (NIP) sets out the State’s proposed approach to meeting the requirements set out in the Migration Pact. The NIP was agreed by Government on March 25th and has been submitted to the European Commission. My Department has published a brief on Ireland’s National Implementation Plan for the Pact which can be viewed here gov.ie - Brief on Ireland’s National Implementation Plan for the EU Migration and Asylum Pact.

The plan has been submitted to the Commission for its consideration and will be published in due course, following that initial consideration.