Gary Gannon (Dublin Central, Social Democrats)
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148. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of international protection applications made by nationals of Brazil, Georgia and India in the months of June to October 2025; the median processing times of those applications to first instance and appeal; the number of those applicants who have received a vulnerability assessment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60284/25]

Jim O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay South, Fianna Fail)
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As the Deputy will be aware, the EU Migration and Asylum Pact is a new EU framework to manage migration and asylum for the long-term. The overall objective of the Pact is to provide a fair, sustainable and efficient asylum procedure. This will be done through convergence in asylum practices across the EU.

On 1st July, my Department introduced the first phase of a gradual transition to a new accelerated, end-to-end process for applicants entering the international protection system in Ireland. This new accelerated process mirrors elements of the future border procedure and screening required by the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum while still adhering to the existing International Protection Act 2015.

The new process is designed to enable testing of new border procedure timelines that will be required as part of the EU Pact requirements in June 2026. The border procedure allows 12 weeks to first and second-instance decisions and a further 12 weeks to return for those who receive negative decisions.

During the first phase of transition an accelerated procedure for first and second instance decisions was introduced for applicants from designated three safe countries of origin; Georgia, Brazil and India.

Between July 1 and 30 September, 367 applications were received under this initiative. This has resulted in a total of 166 first-instance decisions.

This has resulted in an initial timeframe of less than 3 months from screening to final decision, including IPAT appeals.

The table below shows the number of International Protection applications made by nationals of Brazil, Georgia and India from 1 June to 31 October 2025.

Table 1: International Protection Applications June to October 2025

The Median Processing Time for a first instance decision for applicants dealt with through the accelerated procedure was 4 weeks over this period.

The table below shows the number of appeals from nationals of Brazil, Georgia and India accepted from 1 June to 31 October 2025.

Table 2: Appeals accepted June to October 2025

The median processing time for accelerated appeals accepted from June to October 2025 was 4 weeks.

Vulnerability Assessments are offered to all applicants from those countries being dealt with through the Pact transition accelerated procedure and the table below sets out the number of assessments conducted.

Table 3: Total number of Vulnerability Assessments conducted