Kai, try installing telepathy-idle. At this point, it sounds like the Desktop Team doesn't want to include the IRC plugin by default as they believe there are better IRC clients available in Software Center. They also consider IRC to be a tool for technical users or developers and doesn't need to be in the default install.
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