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How many people does Ireland deport every year?
Feb 28, 2025
The figure is relatively low for a number of reasons.
THE GOVERNMENT HAS resumed the deportation of asylum seekers from Ireland on chartered flights, with 32 people sent to Georgia last night in the first such operation in a number of years.
Those on board the flight had all received Deportation Orders – legal orders to leave the country – after they were deemed to be illegally resident in Ireland.
Justice Minister Jim O’Callaghan said this morning that the Government intends to oversee an increase in the number of deportation orders that are issued this year.
The move signals a change in the way that the government deals with deportations as typically, the number of deportations that have been enforced has been far lower than the number of orders that are signed.
How many people get deported every year?
That compares to 857 deportation orders signed in 2023, and 528 orders signed in 2022.
But figures from the Department that were published last week revealed that 134 people were deported last year – about 5% of the number of orders signed.
O’Callaghan’s predecessor as Justice Minister, Helen McEntee, told an Oireachtas Commitee last year that fewer than 100 people had been deported between the start of 2023 and April 2024.
In a response to a Parliamentary Question about deportations at the end of 2023, McEntee also said that 248 people were “removed from the State under various immigration processes” in 2022.
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