Eoghan Murphy (Dublin South East, Fine Gael)
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To return to the issue we were discussing before moving to that section of the Vote, when a deportation order is issued to individuals they must present themselves at a Garda station every two weeks until they are deported. However, there are cases where deportation orders are issued but the person is not deported for quite some time. I have figures from a reply to a parliamentary question in November 2012 which give a breakdown up to the end of October that year. The number of notifications of intention to deport that were issued was 1,779, while the number of persons removed by the State was 246. The number of persons who voluntarily returned to their country of origin was 387 and the number of persons granted leave to remain was 951. Looking at the asylum seeker numbers and those who are classified as asylum seekers, there are 272 people in the system for as long as seven years. I presume those are mainly people who have been issued with deportation orders but who have challenged that and requested leave to remain.