Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 18 November 2025
785. Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of persons who have been granted temporary protection in the State from 2015 to date in 2025, by year, by country of origin, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63533/25]
Amharc ar fhreagraBeneficiaries of Temporary Protection hold temporary permission to remain in Ireland, renewable annually for as long as the Directive remains in force.
On 15 July 2025, the Justice and Home Affairs Council extended Temporary Protection by a year until March 2027, providing certainty for beneficiaries who can continue to avail of the protections that the Directive provides.
Under Article 2, the Temporary Protection Directive applies to the following groups of people who have had to flee Ukraine due to the invasion by Russia:
a. Ukrainian nationals who were residing in Ukraine before 24 February 2022;
b. Nationals of a third country (other than Ukraine) or a stateless person who would have benefited from international protection (for example: Refugee status) or an equivalent national protection status in Ukraine and were residing there before 24 February 2022;
c. Family members of persons covered by a) and b), where their family already existed in Ukraine, prior to 24 February.
The table below shows the number and nationality of people who have been granted temporary protection in the State from March 2022 up to 16 November 2025. In that time, temporary protection was granted to 122,379 individuals of whom 99% (121,123) were Ukrainian citizens and the remainder were third country nationals.
635 have voluntarily withdrawn from Temporary Protection which involves returning the original Temporary Protection Certificate.
As there are no routine exit checks on people leaving the State it is not possible to say how many beneficiaries of temporary protection have left Ireland in total. However, the Deputy may also wish to be aware that the Central Statistics Office (CSO) has a publication which focuses on the estimated number of Ukrainians present in the country and can be accessed here: www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/fp/p-aui/arrivalsfromukraineinirelandseries16/
*Please note that there is no data collected prior to 3 March 2022 as the Temporary Protection Directive came into effect 4 March 2022.
**It is the policy of my Department not to release numbers where there are 5 or less in respect of any nationality, as there is a possibility that a person may be identifiable by releasing such information.
Please note all figures are correct at time of issue and may be subject to data cleansing.
|
Nationality |
2022* |
2023 |
2024 |
2025 |
|
Ukraine |
68,484 |
32,725 |
10,394 |
9,520 |
|
Nigeria |
282 |
27 |
9 |
5 |
|
Russian Federation |
135 |
62 |
9 |
5 |
|
Georgia |
72 |
12 |
5 |
|
|
Afghanistan |
39 |
5 |
5 |
5 |
|
Moldova, Republic Of |
36 |
14 |
5 |
5 |
|
Syrian Arab Republic |
33 |
6 |
|
5 |
|
Somalia |
26 |
|
|
|
|
Egypt |
24 |
5 |
5 |
|
|
Tajikistan |
23 |
5 |
5 |
|
|
Kenya |
22 |
|
|
|
|
Pakistan |
20 |
5 |
5 |
5 |
|
Türkiye |
16 |
5 |
5 |
5 |
|
Uzbekistan |
16 |
13 |
5 |
7 |
|
Armenia |
14 |
5 |
|
5 |
|
Azerbaijan |
14 |
5 |
5 |
|
|
Belarus |
14 |
5 |
5 |
|
|
United States Of America |
14 |
5 |
5 |
5 |
|
India |
13 |
5 |
|
|
|
Sudan |
13 |
|
|
|
|
Ghana |
11 |
|
|
5 |
|
Algeria |
7 |
5 |
|
|
|
Iran (Islamic Republic Of) |
7 |
|
|
5 |
|
Jordan |
7 |
5 |
|
|
|
Ethiopia |
6 |
|
|
|
|
Morocco |
6 |
|
|
5 |
|
Bangladesh |
5 |
5 |
|
5 |
|
Canada |
5 |
5 |
5 |
5 |
|
Iraq |
5 |
5 |
|
5 |
|
Israel |
5 |
5 |
|
5 |
|
Kazakhstan |
5 |
6 |
|
|
|
State of Palestine |
5 |
5 |
5 |
|
|
Zimbabwe |
5 |
5 |
|
|
|
Stateless |
5 |
5 |
|
|
|
Other** |
58 |
17 |
2 |
2 |
|
Total |
69,449 |
32,929 |
10,446 |
9,555 |
