At a Joint Committee meeting on the 11th of July 2018, Michael Kirrane, Director General of INIS at the Department of Justice admitted that when a deportation order is issued to someone, the obligation is on the person to remove themselves from the state.
"When a deportation order is issued, the obligation is on the person to remove themselves from the state."
"We can't be precise about how many actually do because we don't have exit checks."
He said that normally in a year, the Dept of Justice would issue about 1,000 deportation orders and about 140 or 150 would have been "affected in a particular year".
Séan Deegan, the former barrister appointed by the department of Justice to sit on a tribunal dealing with asylum seekers appealing their failed applications, rejected 498 out of 500 claims because it was his belief that they "were chancers who were telling lies and trying to game asylum system."
At the time, he told Joe Duffy that there were 4,300 in Direct Provision. 40% of them had deportation orders. He called it an industry.
https://soundcloud.com/nuala201/sean-deegan-explains-to-joe-duffy-why-he-rejected-498-out-of-500-asylum-claims
In 2005, JUSTICE Minister Michael McDowell hit out at the "rubbish" stories asylum seekers come up with to get into Ireland.
He gave examples for motivation to enter such as that of a first cousin of the applicant having been involved in a coup 20 years previously, or an asylum seeker having been selected by a cult for ritual sacrifice - or that they themselves had been asked to perform a ritual sacrifice.
Mr McDowell said: "They don't know how they get to Ireland because there are no direct flights, and they can't explain". "Cock-and-bull" and "far-fetched nonsense" were being given by people seeking asylum in Ireland.
He said the patience of Irish people would be very much tested if they knew the stories being told by people looking for asylum.
He said he would like to interview asylum seekers at the airport but the UN insists that I go through due procedure.
He added that he had never saw anybody involved in the NGO sector admitting there was a major problem with bogus asylum applications.
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/mcdowell-rubbishes-tall-stories-of-some-asylum-seekers-25985727.html
John O’Donoghue, a former justice minister, is among the top 20 highest-paid lawyers retained by his former department to help process asylum applications.
Figures released by the Department of Justice show that O’Donoghue, who qualified as a barrister in 2014, has been paid €79,040 since 2015 as a member of the case processing panel of the International Protection Office (IPO). Panellists are paid €615 for interviewing an applicant and then compiling a report. An extra €350 is paid for carrying out an interview and doing a report on the applicant’s spouse, and a further €95 for each dependent child.
According to the figures released, O’Donoghue is the 15th highest-paid member of the IPO panel of 69 lawyers used since 2015. The top earner is Niccolo Denti, a former intern with the UN high commissioner for refugees, who has earned €294,150. Denti has earned at least €60,000 each year, and his bill for the first 10 months of 2018 was €89,550.
The second highest-paid lawyer since 2015 is Ciara Durnin, a barrister, who has earned €182,955.
Tommy O’Donoghue, a barrister, is in third place with €145,600 since 2015. He got €77,770 last year.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/ex-justice-minister-john-odonoghue-cashes-in-on-asylum-application-fees-ddzjckgs0
State asylum cases earned MEP Barry Andrews' wife €1m
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/state-asylum-cases-earned-exministers-wife-1m-29908349.html
Denis Naughten, former Fine Gael integration and immigration spokesperson had this to say:
The failure of the government to overhaul the refugee appeals tribunal and the asylum system in the country was funding the legal profession to the tune of €2.5 million through successful judicial reviews. The payment for judicial reviews was on top of another €1.2 million paid directly to lawyers who worked directly for the tribunal. He said the refugee appeals system has become a cash cow for the legal profession and needs to be overhauled.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ty0NyO-6cjU
Source:
Joint Committee on Justice and Equality debate - Wednesday, 11 Jul 2018
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_justice_and_equality/2018-07-11/3/?highlight%5B0%5D=michael&highlight%5B1%5D=kirrane
Video:
https://media.heanet.ie/page/4bda1122a2e8edd086fcfa6ec327a9be
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/oireachtas-tv/video-archive/committees/1854/
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