M v The Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration (Approved)

EX TEMPORE JUDGMENT delivered by Mr. Justice Miche�l P. O'Higgins on 18 th December 2025

                  This is my ex tempore judgment on the applicant's application for leave to issue judicial review proceedings to quash the decision of the respondent, dated the 20 th of August 2025, made pursuant to section 49(4)(b) and section 49(7) of the International Protection Act 2015, refusing the applicant permission to remain in the State. The respondent contests the leave application and contends that the proceedings have no reasonable prospect of success.

                  I propose to divide my judgment into the following broad sections:

                  That leaves legal ground number two, which is articulated in the following terms in the applicant's statement of grounds. This is a quotation from ground no. 2 on page five of the booklet:

"The Respondent failed to provide sufficient reasons for refusing the Applicant's permission to remain. The Respondent merely recited the Applicant's submissions in support of his application, and noted the documents submitted, without engaging with same - for example finding at page 8 of the decision "It is noted that the applicant's legal representatives have provided copies of various documents in respect of the applicant's undertaking of further training and education in the State and his volunteering activities", without engaging with the submission made on behalf of the Applicant."