Asylum negative first-instance decisions

In 2015, Ireland's asylum negative first-instance decisions increased by 0.8% compared to 2014, reaching 665.

Ireland accounts for 0.3% of the EU-27 total of 265,160.

Ireland ranks 16th out of 27 EU member states with reported data — in the bottom half of the distribution.

Over the past five years, the indicator has fallen by 57.8% (from 1,575 in 2010).

Source: Eurostat dataset migr_asydcfsta, accessed via the eupublicdata pipeline.