Matt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)

Deputy Callaghan and Senator Ruane are indicating. I have a couple of questions. I will ask them together. The Minister mentioned that Ireland is currently subject to 12 readmission agreements. Will he give us a breakdown of how many of these are EU-wide agreements? Are any of them bilateral agreements? I note that quite a number of EU states, including Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Switzerland and France, have all either agreed or are in the process of negotiating bilateral readmission agreements with Kazakhstan. Does the Minister accept that it is open to Ireland to enter into a bilateral agreement that does not tie us to a mandate we may or may not agree with, should we wish to?

I will ask a final question before I go to the members. The Minister suggested that, over recent years, an average of 1,000 Kazakhstani citizens across the EU were subject to return orders each year. What was the average or total number of these that occurred in Ireland? I will leave it at that.