Harris claims UK government confirms ‘operating agreement’ for asylum seekers

Taoiseach Simon Harris speaking to the media as he attends the European People's Party conference on the future of European agriculture at the Woodford Dolmen Hotel, Co. Carlow.

Simon Harris has claimed that the UK government has confirmed there is an “operating agreement” to allow asylum seekers to be returned between both jurisdictions.

It comes as the Cabinet approved emergency legislation from the Minister of Justice Helen McEntee to allow the UK to be designated as a safe country to enable asylum seekers to be transferred back there.