Paul Donnelly (Dublin West, Sinn Fein)
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459. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of illegal immigrants who have been detected in transport vehicles such as hauliers' trucks at Irish harbours from 2020 to date in 2023. [2794/23]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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As the Deputy will be aware, the Border Management Unit of my Department is responsible for frontline immigration duties at Dublin Airport only. All other ports of entry are the responsibility of the Garda National Immigration Bureau (GNIB).

I have sought the information requested from the Garda Commissioner and the number of incidents and number of associated persons with each incident is listed in the table below by year.

The data related for 2023 is to 22 January.