Dr. Angela Skuce:

I do not know if it is up to them. I think it is. That is not my area of expertise. Where we come across it is in our GP clinics, in the national transit centre, where people are moved. So people are sometimes moved from their accommodation to the transit centre and they stay there awaiting deportation, and then in our other clinics in town where people voluntarily come in to us. Our GPs have seen people who are four, five and six months in the transit centre awaiting deportation. What happens when people are finally given a date, where they are removed from the country, they are transferred from there to one of the prisons.

They wait there for two or three days and then they are put on a flight.