>Deportation operation to Pakistan cost €474,000 and involved 24 failed asylum seekers
>There were more than three times as many gardaí as deportees on a half-full flight to Pakistan even though it included just one person with a serious criminal conviction, official records show.
>…
>The notes show that 79 members of the Garda were on board, an average of 3.3 per deportee, as well as a doctor, a paramedic, a translator and a human rights monitor. The average bill for each deportee was around €20,000, as the department said in a statement that such operations were “costly and complex to enforce”.
I just heard about this and thought it was a strange. No reason given for having 79 Garda on the flight.
Do they expect them to be on best behaviour and send them via Ryanair?
Deportations cost money and require security.
Probably still significantly cheaper than accomodating them here for even a year
Journalists are always desperate to find a scandal.
If they hadn’t deported them the failed asylum seekers the journalists would be calling it a scandal.
If there weren’t enough Gards on the flight and something happened, they’d be calling it a scandal.
They have too many Gards on the flight, so they call it a scandal.
You’d forgive politicians and public figures for thinking they can’t win and just avoiding any contact with the media
The government has a scheme to pay deportees for voluntary deportations. Cheaper to pay them to leave than to force them out.
Well worth the money to be rid of a dangerous criminal from our country.
The fact is it costs us between €720,000 – €836,000 a year to look after these failed asylum seekers (costs the state on average €30,000 – €36,000 a year by 24 people).
So even after the cost of these flights and with triple the number of Gardai the state still saves between €246,000 to €390,000 in just the next 12 months of these 24 people not being in the state.
Those savings of course will never actually materialise and will be cancelled out by more than 24 new applications this week alone though (current average is roughly 230 new asylum applicants a week).
Maybe there were so many Gardaí to provide them training/experience for such flights?
Its the Romanian deportation that sticks out the most to me. The article says the 23 Romanians who were deported had accumulated a total of 565 convicted crimes, making it an average of 24 crimes per person deported.
Good riddance to this bunch I say but it should have happened a lot sooner, they clearly only came to Ireland just to be criminals and to cause havoc in our society. Meanwhile you have at least 565 victims of the crimes of this bunch of 23 Romanians left behind picking up the pieces. They should have been deported after their 3rd convicted crime, not their 24th.
Why did the government hire a private plane with gardaí placed 1 to 1. Even that would surely have been cheaper.
Optics are everything in all aspects of life. Deportation flights like these are worth their weight in gold as they send a message that Ireland won’t tolerate failed asylum seekers.
Hardly surprising given the people on the plane don’t want to be there.
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>Deportation operation to Pakistan cost €474,000 and involved 24 failed asylum seekers
>There were more than three times as many gardaí as deportees on a half-full flight to Pakistan even though it included just one person with a serious criminal conviction, official records show.
>…
>The notes show that 79 members of the Garda were on board, an average of 3.3 per deportee, as well as a doctor, a paramedic, a translator and a human rights monitor. The average bill for each deportee was around €20,000, as the department said in a statement that such operations were “costly and complex to enforce”.
I just heard about this and thought it was a strange. No reason given for having 79 Garda on the flight.
Do they expect them to be on best behaviour and send them via Ryanair?
Deportations cost money and require security.
Probably still significantly cheaper than accomodating them here for even a year
Journalists are always desperate to find a scandal.
If they hadn’t deported them the failed asylum seekers the journalists would be calling it a scandal.
If there weren’t enough Gards on the flight and something happened, they’d be calling it a scandal.
They have too many Gards on the flight, so they call it a scandal.
You’d forgive politicians and public figures for thinking they can’t win and just avoiding any contact with the media
The government has a scheme to pay deportees for voluntary deportations. Cheaper to pay them to leave than to force them out.
Well worth the money to be rid of a dangerous criminal from our country.
The fact is it costs us between €720,000 – €836,000 a year to look after these failed asylum seekers (costs the state on average €30,000 – €36,000 a year by 24 people).
So even after the cost of these flights and with triple the number of Gardai the state still saves between €246,000 to €390,000 in just the next 12 months of these 24 people not being in the state.
Those savings of course will never actually materialise and will be cancelled out by more than 24 new applications this week alone though (current average is roughly 230 new asylum applicants a week).
Maybe there were so many Gardaí to provide them training/experience for such flights?
Its the Romanian deportation that sticks out the most to me. The article says the 23 Romanians who were deported had accumulated a total of 565 convicted crimes, making it an average of 24 crimes per person deported.
Good riddance to this bunch I say but it should have happened a lot sooner, they clearly only came to Ireland just to be criminals and to cause havoc in our society. Meanwhile you have at least 565 victims of the crimes of this bunch of 23 Romanians left behind picking up the pieces. They should have been deported after their 3rd convicted crime, not their 24th.
Why did the government hire a private plane with gardaí placed 1 to 1. Even that would surely have been cheaper.
Optics are everything in all aspects of life. Deportation flights like these are worth their weight in gold as they send a message that Ireland won’t tolerate failed asylum seekers.
Hardly surprising given the people on the plane don’t want to be there.
https://www.thejournal.ie/garda-slashed-by-detainee-on-deportation-flight-385082-Mar2012/
This is why there’s so many garda on flights. This happened in 2012, that man was fairly badly injured and our of work for long time
Sounds like an overtime run for the Guards to be honest. Never heard of so many on a deportation flight before.
They’ll always find something to moan about.
Why are they deporting gardai? I thought we needed more of them.
So a bargain
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