The main migration policy instruments in Ireland:

Non-exhaustive list of key policy documents in the area of migration:

• National policies and legislation:
• Consult Ireland’s national law database.
• Consult recent publications of the European Migration Network.
• EU legislation:
• Consult the adopted EU legislation on Migration and Home Affairs
• Ratified international treaties:
• 1956/1968: ratification of the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol.
• 2010: ratification of the 2000 Protocol on Trafficking in Persons.

The main ministries in charge of migration affairs in Ireland:  

• Department of Justice and Equality: Together with its subordinate authorities it is the main body dealing with migration affairs, including immigration; border management; social integration; the reception of asylum seekers and the asylum procedure; return and readmission.
• Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: visa and consular services; development policy; relations with third countries; diaspora relations.
• Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation: labour migration policy and labour migration permit schemes.

Sources:

• Irish National Contact Point of the European Migration Network (2012): The Organisation of Migration and Asylum Policies in Ireland. Fact Sheet. https://ec.europa.eu/home-affairs/sites/homeaffairs/files/what-we-do/networks/european_migration_network/reports/docs/emn-studies/asylum-migration/13._ireland_factsheet_institutional_chart_factsheet_october2012__en.pdf
• Irish National Contact Point of the European Migration Network (2016): Annual Report 2016 on Migration and Asylum Policy in Ireland. https://ec.europa.eu/home-affairs/sites/homeaffairs/files/14a_ireland_apr_part2_2016_final_en.pdf
• United Nations DESA-Population Division and UNICEF (2014): Migration Profiles - Common Set of Indicators. https://esa.un.org/MigGMGProfiles/Indicators/indicators.HTM

Last update: December 2018