Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 15 February 2024
Public Accounts Committee
Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons
9:30 am
Mr. Doncha O'Sullivan:
When a person comes to the end of the international protection process, he or she is notified that the application has been refused and is given the option of engaging with an assisted returns programme, which is a voluntary return programme. If the person chooses not to opt for that, a deportation order will issue. That is then provided to the Garda National Immigration Bureau, which will take steps to seek to enforce that order. We work very closely with the Garda National Immigration Bureau and International Protection Accommodation Services, IPAS, to have information about the whereabouts of people, including their most recent IPAS address and An Garda Síochána seeks to enforce the order.