Mr. Noel Waters:

As I indicated, we did an exercise to try to establish that. It is very difficult, by definition, because people can travel freely. The favoured route at the moment is from the North, across to Scotland and down, as it is on the way back in. Hitherto, it would have been from Dublin on the ferry route or from Rosslare, but those routes are now closed off. We have an added difficulty in that if someone travels from Scotland and to Northern Ireland, he or she is still in the UK. None of us wants to reach a point where we are introducing border controls at Dundalk or elsewhere. That is clearly not an option. There are practical difficulties in respect of policing that area.

We do not have hard figures on the numbers of people who leave on foot of deportation orders.