Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 6 May 2026
613. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the measured being taken to speed up the processing of IRP renewal applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32102/26]
View answer614. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of IRP renewal applications received by his Department; the number accepted, and the number rejected, per year from 2015 to date in 2026, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32103/26]
View answer615. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of IRP renewal applications received by his Department; the number accepted, and the number rejected, per month to date in 2026, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32104/26]
View answer616. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of IRP renewal applications received by his Department; the number accepted, and the number rejected, per month in 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32105/26]
View answerI propose to take Questions Nos. 613, 614, 615 and 616 together.
The Registration Office of my Department is currently experiencing an exceptionally high demand for immigration permission renewal applications.
I understand that the extended wait times can be frustrating for applicants and I can assure the Deputy that my Department is exploring every avenue available to facilitate as many customers as possible and to increase processing capacity.
The Registration Office is already open seven days a week to facilitate customers, with further measures to reduce processing times currently being implemented. Additional staff have been assigned to this work and further assignments are being examined. I expect that this will begin to address the delays currently being experienced.
The Registration Office provide a live application processing date broken down by stamp category, which is updated every Monday, and is available at the following link: www.irishimmigration.ie/registering-your-immigration-permission/how-to-renew-your-current-permission/.
Customers may submit their renewal applications up to 12 weeks prior to expiry of permission, to allow sufficient time for an application to be reached and processed prior to a current permission expiring.
The Registration Office has also issued a notice to employers regarding the legality of employing someone awaiting renewal. This notice can be found here: www.irishimmigration.ie/notice-to-employers-regarding-employees-awaiting-renewal-of-their-irp-card/.
I understand that the Deputy has agreed to limit the scope of her request to data from 2022 onwards.
The table below provides a monthly breakdown of the number of successful renewals of Immigration permissions from 2022, up to 31 March 2026.
It is not possible to provide the number of renewal applications accepted and rejected as this would require the manual examination of each individual renewal application received. Such an examination would require a disproportionate amount of time to compile and would deflect resources from processing applications.
