EU nations have agreed to tighten border controls immediately in the wake of the Paris attacks.
Travellers at the external borders of the passport-free Schengen area will face stricter checks.
The Minister for Justice says her EU counterparts are determined to tighten up Passport controls.
Speaking following the gathering today Minister Frances Fitzgerald says she hopes new measures will be in place before the year is out.
"All of the minsters present felt that the passenger name records is absolutely essential before the end of the year so that data on travel both within and outside the EU could be exchanged and made accessible where necessary to police and intelligence forces.
"There was also a strong point made, and we all agreed on this, about the need for continued intelligence sharing and integration of databases," she said.
EU officials said travellers will now not only have their passports examined but have their personal information checked with databases.
The Schengen zone allows citizens of 22 EU countries, plus non-EU Norway, Switzerland, Iceland and Liechtenstein to cross borders without showing their passports.
The deal has come under scrutiny after it emerged that some of the Paris attackers entered the country from Belgium.
Alleged ringleader Abdelhamid Abaaoud, who was killed along with two others in a police raid on Wednesday, may have come back from fighting with IS in Syria to take part.
He had been linked to a series of extremist plots in France this year, including an attack by a gunman on a high-speed train which was thwarted by three Americans.
Some 28 interior ministers from across the EU held an emergency meeting in Brussels on Friday, at which they backed France's call for a review of the Schengen agreement.
A draft copy of the statement from the meeting read: "Member states undertake to implement immediately the necessary systematic and co-ordinated checks at external borders, including on individuals enjoying the right of free movement."
Earlier, France's Prime Minister Manuel Valls said some of the Paris attackers exploited Europe's refugee crisis to "slip in" to France unnoticed.
