I have been advised by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) of my Department that the numbers of Deportation Orders made during the years 2014 to 2018 are as set out in the following table.
Year
|
Deportation Orders made
|
2014
|
742
|
2015
|
764
|
2016
|
1,196
|
2017
|
932
|
2018
|
1,187
|
Total
|
4,821
|
With regard to the number of non-EEA nationals who have left voluntarily after receiving a Deportation Order, a person the subject of a Deportation Order is legally obliged to remove themselves from the state and thereafter remain outside the State. It is the case that in this jurisdiction as in others, significant numbers of people who are the subject of deportation orders leave voluntarily following receipt of the order. As exit checks from the State are not in use, it is not possible to indicate with any degree of precision the numbers who may be in this category but all the available evidence suggests that the number is likely to be considerable.
Enforced removals are only carried out as a last resort and are carried out in conjunction with the Garda National Immigration Bureau (GNIB). The following table sets out numbers for the years requested by the Deputy.
Year
|
Number of persons deported
|
2014
|
114
|
2015
|
251
|
2016
|
428
|
2017
|
140
|
2018
|
163
|
Total
|
1,096
|