Only 15% of migrants in receipt of a deportation order are confirmed to have deported. That's according to Aontú leader and Meath West TD Peadar Tóibín.
In a statement issued to Northern Sound, Deputy Tóibín believes the manner in how the government has handled the refugee process has been a "disaster."
Deputy Tóibín stated that government mismanagement is creating "real division" in Irish society and that deportations are a perfect example of that dysfunction.
He added that there must be a process at airports or at ferry ports to identify and record when a person with a deportation order has left the country.
"According to an parliamentary answer I received from the Minister for Justice, the deportation system in Ireland is in practical terms a voluntary one," explained Deputy Tóibín.
"The government can only be certain that 15% of people who received a deportation order have actually deported. Since 2018 5091 people have received a deportation order and yet the government can only be certain that 783 people actually left the country. It is hard to overstate how ridiculous this is."
