Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

In the context of the pandemic, I am not quite sure how people can be deported, given the various restrictions and rules that govern it. On Deputy Gannon's point about those working in the healthcare service, I do not know the individual cases, but Ireland does not deport too many people in any given year. The Catherine Day report reveals that. There are policy issues that emanate from that in terms of how best to deal with these situations and those fall for consideration by the Government and, ultimately, by the Oireachtas as well in terms of how we manage migration. If Deputy Gannon has the details of those two cases I will follow them up, and ask that they would be followed up, because I do not believe that people should be deported in the context of Covid-19 to red zone areas or where the virus is in a much worse situation than is now the case here.

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