International Protection Act 2026

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Screening form

33. (1) The Minister shall complete a form (either in paper or electronic format, as the Minister considers appropriate) containing the following information—

(a) the applicant’s name, date of birth, place of birth, and gender,

(b) an indication of the nationalities or statelessness of the applicant, the countries of residence of the applicant prior to the applicant’s arrival in the State and the languages spoken by the applicant,

(c) the reason for which screening was performed,

(d) such information as the Minister considers relevant from the report of a qualified medical professional arising from the preliminary health assessment carried out in accordance with section 29 ,

(e) such information as the Minister considers relevant from the preliminary vulnerability assessment carried out in accordance with section 30 , in particular any vulnerability or special reception needs under Article 25 of the Reception Conditions Directive or requirement for special procedural guarantees under Article 21 of the Asylum Procedures Regulation identified,

(f) confirmation that the applicant made an application,

(g) information provided by the applicant as to whether the applicant has family members located on the territory of any Member State,

(h) whether the consultation of Eurodac or any other database or system referred to in Article 15 of the Screening Regulation in respect of the applicant resulted in a hit,

(i) whether the applicant has, in so far as it is applicable, complied with the obligations to cooperate in accordance with sections 25 and 67 , and

(j) such other information as the Minister may prescribe having regard to the purposes of this Act.

(2) A form referred to in subsection (1) shall, where applicable, include—

(a) the reason for the irregular arrival or entry of an applicant in the State,

(b) information on routes travelled by an applicant, including the point of departure, places of previous residence, third countries of transit, third countries where international protection may have been sought by the applicant or granted to the applicant and the intended destination of the applicant within the European Union,

(c) copies or detail of travel or identity documents carried by an applicant, and

(d) any comments of the Minister or other relevant information, including any related information in cases of suspected smuggling or trafficking in human beings.

(3) Where appropriate, the Minister shall state on the form referred to in subsection (1) whether the information contained in the form is based on the declaration of the applicant or whether it has been verified by the Minister.

(4) Subject to subsection (5), the Minister shall make a copy of the form available in either paper or electronic format to the applicant.

(5) Before making a copy of the form available to the applicant under subsection (4), the information referred to in subsection (1)(h) and (2)(d) shall be redacted by the Minister from the form to the extent necessary and proportionate for the purpose of the restrictions referred to in section 60(3)(a)(ii) of the Act of 2018.

(6) The Minister shall request the applicant to confirm the accuracy of the information in the form and, where the applicant disputes the accuracy of any of the information, the Minister shall include a statement to that effect in the form.

(7) The Minister may give a copy of the form to, and the copy form may be used by—

(a) the Determining Authority for the purposes of the consideration of the applicant’s application under Part 7 ,

(b) the Tribunal for the purposes of the performance of functions under Part 8 , and

(c) the Minister or another Member State for the purpose of performance of functions under Part 6 or Part 11 .

(8) The form to be completed under subsection (1) shall be in such form as the Minister may specify and the Minister shall publish the specified form on a website maintained by or on behalf of the Minister or the Government.

(9) In this section, “hit” means—

(a) the existence of a match established by Eurodac by means of a comparison between biometric data recorded in the computerised central database and those transmitted in accordance with Chapter 1 with regard to a person, and

(b) in relation to any other database or system referred to in Article 15 of the Screening Regulation, the existence of a match established by that database or system by means of a comparison between biometric or other data recorded in that database or system and those submitted by means of a query through the database or system operator.