Ireland has strictest asylum seeker regime

IRELAND has emerged as the country with the strictest regime for granting asylum seekers any sort of protection within the EU.

Figures from the European Commission show that Ireland has continued to tighten up procedures for giving undocumented immigrants refugees status over the past 12 months.

Just 25 out of 1,600 asylum seekers received a positive outcome to their application for refugees status or other form of humanitarian protection in 2010 from the Office of Refugee Applications Commissioner.