Mr. Michael Kirrane:

The difficulty that occurs is that before we can return anybody, we need to get a travel document. The difficulty occurs in getting co-operation from a country. It is not a question of us having somebody on a plane and that plane landing and somebody refusing to accept the person on arrival. We make every effort to resolve the issue before anybody leaves the State by engaging with the relevant embassy to get a travel document and an acceptance the country will take the person back.