18/11/2025
Press Release
Ireland must declare a state of emergency within our immigration system as UK radical asylum reforms begin.
Carol Nolan
17-11-2025
Independent TD for Offaly Carol Nolan has said the announcement of sweeping reforms to the UK’s asylum policy by Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood means that there is now an “absolute moral and political imperative for the Irish Government to abandon any attempt to deal with our asylum crisis in an incremental or half-hearted manner.”
Deputy Nolan was speaking as the UK’s Labour Government confirmed that refugee status will no longer be permanent but will now become temporary with mandatory reviews every 30 months to assess if conditions in the home country allow safe return.
The UK will also extend the waiting period for permanent settlement (indefinite leave to remain) from 5 years to 20 years, reducing the so-called "golden ticket" incentive for illegal migration. Family reunion rights for refugees are also to be restricted, while multiple appeals against asylum refusals are to be banned:
“What we are seeing in the UK has rightly been described as "the most sweeping reforms to tackle illegal migration in modern times". But what are we seeing here? Virtue signalling from the combined left who seem to think that we must go on forever being a soft touch to overwhelming numbers of economic migrants abusing the international protection system and a Government that still seems to believe a steady as she goes approach is warranted when what we actually need is the declaration of an emergency with regard to the collapse of the immigration systems capacity,” said Deputy Nolan.
“I also think it is becoming clearer by the day that our opting into EU’s Asylum and Migration Pact is going to leave us vulnerable to the kind of poisonous permission structures and bureaucratic hoops that we will have to navigate before we actually take a decision in our own interests.”
“Clearly the UK is finally realising that mass immigration is the root cause of a potential major breakdown in social cohesion in its society. We will also experience that unless radical action is taken immediately.”
“As more and more people realise that successive Governments have been asleep at the wheel when it comes to the kind of robust measures that we need to stop the flow and reverse the trend of illegal migration, the more pressure there will be on Government to act. That day is already here if they would only listen to what the majority of the people are saying.”
“We should move immediately to send the signal out internationally; come here illegally and we will detain you and send you back without a second thought and you can say goodbye to freeloading at the taxpayers’ expense because that is something we are no longer going to tolerate,” concluded Deputy Nolan.
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