Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 23 September 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

International Protection Accommodation Service: Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

2:00 am

Photo of Jim O'CallaghanJim O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay South, Fianna Fail)

That is a very good point. I am sorry; that was one I missed. There are a small number of people in IPAS who have had deportation orders served on them. In terms of giving effect to those orders, they can be removed from the country. I changed the law in order that people can be detained not just for seven days but for 42. People who are the subject of deportation orders are not entitled to be in IPAS accommodation. They have been refused permission to be in the country. Similarly, if they have been granted it, they should move on and, in this instance, move out of the country. That is why we give effect to enforce deportation.

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