New Irish Prime Minister Simon Harris said Sunday he asked his government to formulate a plan to return asylum seekers to Britain. Harris asked Justice Minister Helen McEntee to deliver proposals to the cabinet next week to facilitate the deferrals after saying a newly implemented British plan to ship asylum seekers who arrive in Britain to Rwanda led to 80% of recent asylum seekers in Ireland arriving through its land border with Northern Ireland.

Ireland is planning to send asylum seekers back to the U.K. under emergency legislation, in an effort to curb irregular arrivals through Northern Ireland. “I’ll have emergency legislation at Cabinet this week to make sure that we can effectively return people to the U.K.,” Irish Justice Minister Helen McEntee told public broadcaster RTÉ on Sunday.

Ireland is seeking an emergency law to allow the return of asylum seekers to the UK amid concerns over increased arrivals through Northern Ireland linked to Rishi Sunak's Rwanda deterrence plan.