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

It is difficult to quantify. I cannot quantify it for the Deputy. As I said, this year we have had 1,461 repatriations, both deportations and voluntary returns. We have already served 3,029 deportation orders this year. Obviously not all of those people have been removed yet but we believe that a very significant number of them will have left the country. They may go back into the UK or other parts of Europe if they do not get asylum here. The plan of people who are refused asylum is to come here because they want to work. That is a perfectly legitimate aspiration but the asylum process is not the correct forum for it. If they cannot work here, they will go to another country.