Rishi Sunak said the UK would not accept returns from Ireland if the EU would not allow small boat migrants to be sent back to France.

The Irish Government said there has been an increase in asylum seekers arriving in Ireland after crossing the NI border.

The Irish Government has said there had been an increase in asylum seekers arriving across the Northern Ireland border.

Taoiseach Simon Harris said he does not ‘intend to allow anybody else’s migration policy to affect the integrity of our own one’

Taoiseach Simon Harris has asked Minister for Justice Helen McEntee to develop plans to allow the return of inadmissible international protection applicants back to the UK

The Government has claimed the UK’s asylum policy was causing an influx of refugees to the Republic

Downing Street rebuffed suggestions from Tánaiste Micheál Martin that asylum seekers were now fearful of staying in the UK.

Tánaiste Micheál Martin said the UK government's plan to send international protection applicants to Rwanda is already affecting Ireland

The UK Supreme Court found last November that UK prime minister Rishi Sunak’s plan to fly asylum seekers to Rwanda is unlawful

The cases claim the UK is not a "safe third country" to which they can be returned due to the UK government's plans to send asylum seekers to Rwanda

An Oireachtas committee is assessing the implications of the UK Illegal Migration Act on the Good Friday Agreement.