International Protection Act 2026
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Determining Authority may prioritise examination of applications for international protection | ||
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150. The Determining Authority may prioritise the examination of an application for international protection in particular where— | ||
(a) it considers that the application is likely to be well-founded, | ||
(b) the applicant is an applicant with special reception needs as referred to in the Reception Conditions Directive or is in need of special procedural guarantees, in particular where he or she is an unaccompanied minor, | ||
(c) there are reasonable grounds to consider the applicant as a danger to the national security or public order of the State, | ||
(d) the application is a subsequent application, | ||
(e) the applicant— | ||
(i) has been subject to a section 86 decision, or | ||
(ii) has engaged in criminal behaviour, | ||
(f) the applicant does not possess identity documents and has not provided a reasonable explanation for the absence of such documents, | ||
(g) the applicant has failed to provide a reasonable explanation to substantiate his or her claim that the State is the first safe country in which he or she has arrived since departing from his or her country of origin, | ||
(h) the applicant has failed to provide a full and true explanation of how he or she travelled to and arrived in the State, | ||
(i) the application was made other than at the frontier of the State and is not grounded on events which have taken place since the applicant’s arrival in the State and the applicant has failed to provide a reasonable explanation to show why he or she did not make an application for international protection, or, as the case may be, an application under section 13 of the Act of 2015, immediately on arriving at the frontier of the State, | ||
(j) the applicant has forged, destroyed or disposed of any identity or other documents relevant to his or her application, and has not provided a reasonable explanation for so doing, | ||
(k) the applicant has adduced manifestly false evidence in support of his or her application, or has otherwise made false representations, either orally or in writing, | ||
(l) the applicant, without reasonable cause, has made an application following the notification of a proposal under section 3(3)(a) of the Act of 1999, | ||
(m) the applicant has failed to comply with the requirements of section 67 , | ||
(n) the applicant is a person in respect of whom the Child and Family Agency is providing care and protection, | ||
(o) the applicant, without reasonable cause, has failed to comply with section 65 (2) or a requirement under section 184 , | ||
(p) the applicant is from a safe country of origin, or | ||
(q) the country of origin of the applicant is a country in respect of which there are a large number of applications and there is a need to ensure that these and all other applications are dealt with in an efficient manner. |