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A meeting between Minister for Justice Helen McEntee and the UK’s Home Secretary James Cleverly, which was due to take place today, has been postponed.
However, the Department of Foreign Affairs has confirmed that it will be rescheduled in the near future.
It comes amid tensions between both countries over the movement of migrants from the UK to Ireland.
They had been due to meet on Monday to discuss “strengthening” the Common Travel Area, but the meeting was postponed late on Sunday night.
The Cabinet is preparing to examine laws to allow asylum applicants to be returned from Ireland to the UK this week.
Taoiseach Simon Harris said yesterday that Ireland will not “provide a loophole” for the migration challenges in other countries.
Mr Harris said that while every country is entitled to its own migration policy, he does not intend to allow the policies of others to “affect the integrity of our own one”.
“This country will not in any way shape or form provide a loophole for anybody else’s migration challenges,” he said.
It comes after it emerged last week that 80% of recent asylum seeker arrivals to Ireland came from the UK via the land border with Northern Ireland.
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said this shows his government’s so-called Rwanda policy is working as a deterrent.
The UK Government has rejected any bid by Ireland to return asylum seekers unless France agrees to do the same with boats crossing the Channel.
“We won’t accept any asylum returns from the EU via Ireland until the EU accepts that we can send them back to France,” a UK government source said.
The Rwanda policy will see asylum seekers coming to the UK being placed on a one-way flight to the east African nation, with the aim of deterring others from crossing the English Channel on small boats.
The legislation ensuring the plan is legally sound, the Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Act, cleared its passage through the UK Parliament this week and was signed into law on Thursday.
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