On Wednesday, 24 August 2022, the Central Statistics Office released its annual Population and Migration Estimates, which use preliminary results from Census 2022 to estimate Ireland’s population in April of this year. As we (and others) noted when the preliminary census results were released in June, Census 2022 showed a population over 5 million people for the first time since … Read More

The day after publishing the annual Population and Migration Estimates showing the highest inward migration numbers in fifteen years (more on these new statistics to come from us in the near future), yesterday the Central Statistics Office released a smaller, less widely discussed dataset that also sheds some light on the nature of migration in Ireland in 2022: the Labour … Read More

Last Friday, 19 August, the Central Statistics Office released the fifth instalment in the series ‘Arrivals from Ukraine in Ireland’. The latest set of statistics includes individuals issued with PPS numbers under the Temporary Protection Directive as of 7 August 2022. Since the previous instalment, which covered the period up to 10 July 2022, the total number of PPS numbers … Read More

Yesterday, Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science Simon Harris TD announced a new scheme that will support temporary protection beneficiaries from Ukraine in Ireland to access Post Leaving Certificate courses during the 2022/2023 academic year. The scheme will allow qualified students to attend Solas-approved PLC courses without paying any fees. It will also provide them with … Read More

Today is International Youth Day, an observance focused on the perspectives, needs, and contributions of youth and young people, defined by the UN World Programme of Action for Youth as those aged 15-24. According to the UN, there are 1.2 billion young people in the world today, comprising 16% of the global population. A 2016 report from the Immigrant Council … Read More

In April of this year, EMN Ireland published the study Detection, identification and protection of third-country national victims of human trafficking in Ireland, which examined developments in Irish policy between 2015 and 2020. Since publication of the report, there have been several significant developments in the Irish policy landscape with regard to human trafficking. The first development is the publication … Read More

Saturday, 30 July, marked World Day Against Trafficking in Persons. In observance of this international day, we are publishing a two-part post on human trafficking in Ireland. Part 1 places Irish data on trafficking within a global perspective, comparing Irish statistics (compiled from a variety of sources, including a recent EMN Ireland study), with international ones, as presented in the … Read More

Earlier this week, on Monday, 18 July, the Central Statistics Office published its most recent set of figures on arrivals from Ukraine in Ireland. These statistics include all individuals issued with PPS numbers under the Temporary Protection Directive as of 10 July. Since the previous CSO report, which covered the period up to 19 June, the total number of arrivals … Read More

Earlier this week, the Eurydice network – a European Commission initiative devoted to explaining how education systems work throughout the EU – published a new report titled ‘Supporting refugee learners from Ukraine in schools in Europe 2022’. The report synthesises information and policies from 35 countries across Europe (EU Member States except Hungary, plus Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Switzerland, Iceland, … Read More

Today Taoiseach Micheál Martin and Minister for Research and Innovation Simon Harris launched the new Innovate for Ireland public-private partnership, which will offer stipends of €28,000 per year to PhD students from Ireland and abroad. Initially, the initiative will seek to attract up to 400 PhD students to undertake research in Ireland on national and global challenges such as climate … Read More

The Central Statistics Office released the preliminary findings from the 2022 census on 23 June. The headline item was that, for the first time since 1841, the population of Ireland was greater than five million. The initial results provide some insights into how migration has played a role in this historic population change. Population growth since the previous census in … Read More

Earlier this week, the Department of Justice launched Zero Tolerance, the third national strategy on domestic, sexual, and gender-based violence (DSGBV). This is a five-year strategy, which is to be expanded and detailed in a series of implementation plans. The first implementation plan was published simultaneously with the strategy and covers the period from now until the end of 2023. … Read More

On Friday, 24 June 2022, the Department of Justice announced the publication of the General Scheme of the Inspection of Places of Detention Bill. This bill will provide for the designation of National Preventive Mechanisms (NPMs), which act as national inspecting bodies for places of detention within Ireland. NPMs monitor places of detention through regular inspection visits and make recommendations … Read More

On 22 June, the European Council agreed to adopt the main elements of the first stage of the phased New Pact on Migration and Asylum, which was first proposed by the European Commission in September 2020. In so doing, the Member States agreed to begin negotiations with the European Parliament on two migration management tools: the Eurodac Regulation and the … Read More

Last week, the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (IHREC), in its role as Ireland’s National Rapporteur on Human Trafficking, published the first National Anti-Trafficking Report. IHREC identified a number of areas as key matters of priority in continuing to combat human trafficking in Ireland. These include Coordination among the relevant State departments and agencies – the Commission called for … Read More