{"id":409811,"date":"2026-03-29T10:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T10:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/409811\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T10:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T10:08:10","slug":"more-than-1600-asylum-seekers-were-paid-to-leave-ireland-in-last-two-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/409811\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 1,600 asylum-seekers were paid to leave Ireland in last two years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Government spent \u20ac3m on deportation flights in 2025 in move to tackle immigration\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Justice Minister Jim O'Callaghan\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/2eb747ab-da08-425e-a29c-0f1eb90774a8.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Justice Minister Jim O&#8217;Callaghan<\/p>\n<p>Wayne O&#8217;Connor and Maeve McTaggart<\/p>\n<p>Today at 06:30<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Asylum-seekers have been paid more than \u20ac1m by the State over the last two years to leave Ireland as part of a scheme enticing them to drop their claims to stay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The revelation comes amid a significant increase in the number of enforced deportations carried out in 2025, with an additional \u20ac3m paid for flights last year alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Government spent \u20ac3m on deportation flights in 2025 in move to tackle immigration Justice Minister Jim O&#8217;Callaghan Wayne&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,13169,4893,13,14,6,56,26735,11,12,31982,15,16,5765,5,18578,7,8,4892,65,66,67],"class_list":["post-409811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-department-of-justice","tag-eu","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-headlines","tag-immigration","tag-jim-ocallaghan","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-maeve-mctaggart","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-micheal-martin","tag-news","tag-social-democrats","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-wayne-oconnor","tag-world","tag-world-news","tag-worldnews"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116311917008625235","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}