Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 12 July 2023
180. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Justice the number of failed refugee applicants currently held in Cloverhill Prison in Dublin or other prisons across the country awaiting deportation. [34598/23]
View answerI wish to inform the Deputy that there are currently 5 individuals detained in prison under section 5 of the Immigration Act 1999. The 5 individuals have been refused international protection under Section 51 of the International Protection Act.
Section 5 of the Immigration Act 1999 provides that where an immigration officer or a member of the Garda Síochána, with reasonable cause, suspects that the person against whom a deportation order is in force has failed to comply with any provision of the order, or with a requirement in a notice under section (3)(b)(ii) of the 1999 Act, he or she may arrest him or her without warrant and detain him or her in a prescribed place.
Arrangements are being put in place for the removal of each of the persons in question at the earliest opportunity.
