Mr. Doncha O'Sullivan:

I may let my colleagues figure out the sums at end of that question while I try to answer the earlier ones. The breakdown regarding males and females is very straightforward; I am not sure have we all of the other information. Typically, people are legally represented at the appeals tribunal. The Legal Aid Board is funded to provide a legal service. People sometimes have their own lawyers as well. In terms of the grant and success rate, it is probably a little higher than the Senator is saying. When the people who get to remain on non-protection grounds are factored in, it is probably a little closer to 50%. This is when all of the different options are taken into account, because there is the first stage, the appeal and then the opportunity to raise additional issues. In terms of where people go, we do not have systemic information on that. We know a typical experience is that when people get to the end of the process, they have a number of options, including participating in a voluntary return programme we operate with the International Organization for Migration. However, many people simply stop contacting us. When we review IPAS records, social protection records and so on, these people do not show up. I would just be speculating as to where they go. Our general sense is that they move out of Ireland and into other jurisdictions, but I do not have any systemic information in that regard.

I will pause and see if either of my colleagues want to say something about the data. We have data on the male-female breakdown that we can share with the committee. I do not think we have figures on disability. We tend not to track individual protection grounds because quite often there can be more than one protection ground in any particular case. We tend not to track the applications but we can check to see if we have any more information on that. We would have arrangements around people with medical vulnerabilities and so on who come through our system from time to time, although they would not feature prominently in our system.