Ireland pledges emergency laws to send asylum seekers back to the UK Credit: RTE

The UK government, in choosing Brexit, chose to act alone on migration. What they have actually seen since then is an increase in people seeking

asylum

in their country. Their policies are their policies. My aim as Minister of Justice is to ensure that we have a migration structure and system that works, which is why I have introduced rapid processing to respond to the increase in numbers, which is why I will be introducing

emergency

legislation this week to ensure that we have a policy of return as effective as possible. those who return to the UK and that is why I will be meeting the Home Secretary this week.