Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 23 October 2025
Public Accounts Committee
Appropriation Accounts 2024
Vote 21 - Prisons
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth - Programme E Expenditure
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 9 - Assessing Cyber Security in the Public Sector
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2024
Chapter 9 - Criminal Justice Operational Hubs
Chapter 10 - Management of International Protection Accommodation Contracts
2:00 am
Mr. Doncha O'Sullivan:
To come back to what we discussed a little bit earlier, our preference would be for people to leave voluntarily. As I have said, we are on our way towards 1,600 people leaving voluntarily this year. Where they do not, we make a deportation order. Our assessment is that in most cases people move when they get that order. In many cases they have moved before that because they know their case is heading in that direction.
We then, in a smaller proportion of cases, take people into custody and remove them, either on commercial flights or on charter flights. As we process more cases, we are investing more resources in scaling this up.
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