Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 25 May 2023

Public Accounts Committee

Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice

9:30 am

Mr. Doncha O'Sullivan:

I thank the Deputy. To jump in on that, the figures we have for last year show that 4,968 arrived without documentation. The figure so far, to end of April, this year is 1,010. Our analysis is that represents a reduction of approximately 40% so far this year.

In terms of what airlines they arrive from, we do not have those data. By virtue of the nature of the phenomenon, a person arrives at our border post and will probably be intent on both not identifying the documentation and not identifying his or her route and we do not have any hard or fast data on the arrivals.

More generally, while obviously this is a phenomenon which was disrupted when international travel was disrupted generally, it has long been a phenomenon that a certain proportion of the people who arrive will do so without proper documentation.

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