Cabinet Committees
Dail Éireann — 2024-05-21
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Peadar Tóibín (AON), Meath West

One of the main problems with the migration issue is the chaos of the Government’s approach to it. The Government does not know what is happening. The answers to many of my parliamentary questions show that the Minister for Justice either did not know the information, was not asking the questions or could not extract the information from the data. We are spending a great deal of money on an expensive process to differentiate between those who need help and those who do not. Those who do not need help are getting deportation orders, but 85% of those are voluntary deportations. According to a parliamentary reply that I have just received from the Minister, she rescinded 1,000 deportation orders just in the past two years. People might be waiting up to ten years to have their respective processes done at great expense to the State, but when the State decides they are not entitled to stay, the Minister for Justice turns around, rescinds those decisions and lets them stay. How can the Government have any credibility in this matter?

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Sitting date: 2024-05-21