Denis Naughten (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Fine Gael)

The Minister has missed the point I am making. What I am talking about is something that goes nowhere near the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions whatsoever. If an individual is residing in this State and does not have proper immigration papers he or she can be deported. There is no such thing as a deportation order that is gone. That person can be brought to Dublin Airport and immediately deported. Does the Minister expect that a very vulnerable woman, or man as the case may be, who has been systematically abused, in the case of sexual trafficking, in more ways than any of us can comprehend, will volunteer to a member of the Garda Síochána that he or she has been trafficked, while travelling from Galway, Sligo or wherever to Dublin Airport? That is what one is relying on in respect of what the Minister has just said. The difficulty is that he or she should not be liable to breaches of being actually present in the State. It is still a difficult issue to define and deal with but what is provided for in the legislation and being proposed in the next piece of legislation is that they do not have time to explain their case to any member because, once they are resident here, they can be deported forthwith.

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