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How AMIF is structured in Ireland

Ireland opted into AMIF in 2022. Money reaches organisations two ways, and the difference decides whether you can compete for it: open calls for proposals, the main NGO route for reception and integration, and direct awards to bodies with a unique capacity to do something — asylum processing, resettlement, accommodation and returns are largely awarded that way, to state bodies. There is no intermediate body for the main programme; the Department names a separate intermediate authority for Returns.

AMIFReg. (EU) 2021/1147 · CPR Reg. (EU) 2021/1060€98.73m for Ireland — €83.57m EU + €15.16m national and beneficiary co-funding; open calls pay 75% (March 2026)
One programme, too many disconnected records. Delivery notes, partner decisions, expenditure, results and reporting evidence often sit in different places.

How the money reaches an organisation

Every level here can be asked for its own process map. That is the point of yours.

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European Commission — DG HOME
AMIF is €9.8bn across the EU for 2021–2027: €6.2bn shared out to Member State programmes and €3.6bn held in a thematic facility that can top a country up later. Ireland gained €8.9m at the midterm review and more again from the thematic facility, amended in March 2026.
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Dept. of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration — Funds Administration Unit
The designated Managing Authority. Runs open calls and direct awards, verifies your claims, pays within 80 days. The function moved here from the children and equality department in 2025; the 2025 call was applied for online.
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Programme Monitoring Committee
Approves the selection criteria and oversees the programme under CPR Arts. 38–40 and 75. No money passes through it. A separate intermediate authority inside the Department handles Returns.
👉 Your organisation sits at this level
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Beneficiaries — the organisations that deliver and claim
Any non-profit public, private or voluntary body — NGOs, partnerships, colleges — and state bodies — the health service, the International Protection Office, the Irish Refugee Protection Programme, and the repatriation service. In AMIF language your organisation is the beneficiary: it signs, keeps the records and claims.
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Participants
Third-country nationals legally resident in Ireland, international protection applicants, eligible asylum seekers and people granted protection — and the staff and volunteers of the bodies that serve them.
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Audit Chain
Built upward from your own records. Your files and quarterly claims → the Funds Administration Unit’s management verifications, desk-based on every claim and on the spot (Ireland’s call rules) → the accounting function draws up the accounts → the Audit Authority, the Internal Audit Unit designated under CPR Art. 71, audits operations and gives the annual audit opinion → the European Commission accepts the assurance package. Alongside, not above: the European Court of Auditors, OLAF, and the Comptroller and Auditor General. Ireland does not take part in the European Public Prosecutor’s Office.

Process maps under this programme

Where this came from

Human reviewed2026-09-21Automatically checked2026-10-12Current source statusAutomatic check incomplete — human check requiredThe source could not be reached automatically. Published content has been preserved for human checking.

Read against the source on 2026-09-21. This is the human-reviewed version.

What that check changed: Reviewed and updated on 21 September 2026 from primary sources; 13 sources are listed below. The allocation shown is €98.73m — €83.57m EU and €15.16m co-financing — as stated on the Government’s EU funds portal after the midterm review and the March 2026 amendment. The amended programme text is not published: the PDF on that portal is still version 3.0 of August 2024 and totals €63.53m, so expect the older figure if you work from it. The Managing Authority is the Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration, which took it on in 2025. The control chain runs upward from your own records through management verifications, the accounting function and the Audit Authority to the Commission, with the external auditors alongside. AMIF runs on two routes: open competitive calls, largely to NGOs, and direct awards to state bodies for asylum processing, resettlement, accommodation and returns.