{"id":196959,"date":"2025-11-24T03:07:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T03:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/196959\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T03:07:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T03:07:12","slug":"ireland-cannot-be-an-outlier-on-asylum-as-other-countries-tighten-rules-taoiseach-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/196959\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland cannot be an outlier on asylum as other countries tighten rules, Taoiseach says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Taoiseach Miche\u00e1l Martin visits a museum in honour of schoolboy Hector Pietersen, who was shot dead aged 12 by white police during the Soweto uprising in 1976. Hector was one of 175 young people killed by police during the protests sparked by the enforced teaching of the Afrikaans language to black students in schools during Apartheid. Mr Martin was in South Africa for the G20 summit and also visited the home of Nelson Mandela. Photo: Government of Ireland\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/WhatsApp Image 2025-11-23 at 13.57.45.jpeg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Taoiseach Miche\u00e1l Martin visits a museum in honour of schoolboy Hector Pietersen, who was shot dead aged 12 by white police during the Soweto uprising in 1976. Hector was one of 175 young people killed by police during the protests sparked by the enforced teaching of the Afrikaans language to black students in schools during Apartheid. Mr Martin was in South Africa for the G20 summit and also visited the home of Nelson Mandela. Photo: Government of Ireland<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The Taoiseach has said Ireland cannot be an outlier on immigration when other Western countries are cracking down on entitlements for asylum-seekers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Speaking in South Africa, Miche\u00e1l Martin did not deny reports about tightened social protection eligibility and restrictions to Irish citizenship for those who have been receiving welfare payments long term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Taoiseach Miche\u00e1l Martin visits a museum in honour of schoolboy Hector Pietersen, who was shot dead aged 12&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,381,13,14,6,56,11,12,15,16,5765,5,34340,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-196959","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-china","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-immigration","15":"tag-latest-news","16":"tag-latestnews","17":"tag-main-news","18":"tag-mainnews","19":"tag-micheal-martin","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-senan-molony","22":"tag-top-stories","23":"tag-topstories","24":"tag-world","25":"tag-world-news","26":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115602472577942687","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}