Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)

What are the criteria used to determine those who should be deported on a charter flight and those who should be deported on a conventional flight? Is cost analysis carried out and taken into account in this determination?

The Minister was unable to give the breakdown between adults and minors in a previous response to a similar question regarding flights in 2003 and 2004. Why does he not know how many adults and minors are on any given flight? Surely such fundamental information would be recorded before any individual is put on a flight out of the jurisdiction.

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