Three motions with one unmistakable policy direction dominate Wednesday’s Dáil schedule, as the coalition moves to opt Ireland into a trio of EU multi-annual funding programmes underpinning the Union’s migration, security and justice agenda.
The first motion locks Ireland into the EU’s AMIF fund— the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund—which bankrolls migration management and integration programmes across the bloc, particularly in frontline Mediterranean states. It follows the Dáil’s decision last June to opt into the EU Migration Pact, a move approved by 79 votes to 72.
The second of the three motions opens up the EU cash flows for Gardai and other migration officials from Brussels’ Internal Security Fund (ISF) locking Ireland further into the European Commission’s compliance architecture as a fait accompli.
The final motion, and arguably the most ambiguous, subscribes Ireland to EU crossborder justice programmes on asylum seekers rights under the guise of court modernisation and victims rights.
All motions require a simple majority of TDs to pass committing the Republic for the next 6 years once the European Commission is notified.
From there the State must align spending, reporting, data-sharing and institutional priorities with Brussels’ frameworks for migration management, internal security cooperation and judicial harmonisation, no matter who is barking orders from Europe or whoever sits in power in Dublin.
For Ireland, backing out mid-cycle is practically impossible, and failing to meet EU targets triggers financial and political penalties. In effect, a short afternoon vote shapes seven years of Ireland’s migration, policing and justice architecture—far more than the average budget day or ministerial reshuffle.
The fleshing out of the EU Migration Pact is posed to diminish Irish sovereignty on the matter to depths even unthinkable in the Enda Kenny years.
The significance is that Ireland is drifting into a fully Europeanised migration regime without ever having the constitutional-scale conversation such a shift deserves even as the issue rupture onto the national airwaves and electoral system at home.
Each motion, each regulation, each funding programme appears small on its own—just another opt-in, another compliance step, another alignment with “best practice.”
The Dáil may treat these votes as routine business, but the long-term settlement they create will be anything but routine.
Ireland lose total control of its orders to EU control.Total loss of Sovereignit ,without an sa the Irish People.
A referendum on this was denied as it would have been blown out of the water y the Irish PeopLE.
This FF/FG Regime must e removed they are a danger to the People of Ireland, in safety and security issues,in Health issues, Neutrality Issues. and Freedom of Speech issue.
What dense idiots vote for their own destruction, WHEN voting FF/FG
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The permanent damage done to Irish lives will never be rectified and the constant bloodletting of the economy cannot be stemmed…all for to make some millionairs while fleecing Irish Taxpayers of Billions $€£
Big Jim O’Callaghan, our useless Minister for Justice is a disgrace. He presides over rampant criminality amongst our Garda Siochana. The Gardai run organised crime and they persecute us ordinary folk for tiny infractions. We should give them all a fair trial, with taxpayer funded barristers and then whip them and tar and feather them. We’d probably have to pass a Constitutional amendment first to allow for whipping and tar and feathering.