Scrapped Immigrant Investor Programme allowed non-EU foreign nationals investing large sums in projects to get visas to reside in Ireland
Minister for Justice Helen McEntee: Challenges before the High Court are brought by applicants who lodged applications with the Minister before the Immigrant Investor Programme was discontinued. Photograph: Brian Lawless/PAThe Minister for Justice is facing several High Court challenges from bodies claiming their bids for inclusion in the now-defunct Immigrant Investor Programme were wrongly rejected.
Naas Rugby Football Club and representatives of a Christian group called “The Church on the Main Street CLG” have brought separate, but similar, judicial review actions against the Minister.
Their investors were prepared to invest a minimum of €400,000 as a philanthropic donation to what were known as endowment projects, that benefit areas including arts, sports or education in Ireland. The applicants claim the Minister’s refusals are invalid and what they submitted is in accordance with the IPP’s rules. They claim that, under the programme, endowment projects were established in a way that allowed investors to be added to projects, and they could also change to and from different projects.
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