A Fianna Fáil TD and European election candidate has slammed the Department of Justice for failing to implement existing immigration laws, “demanding” that they “finally start” to do so.
In a statement this week, Laois-Offaly TD Barry Cowen said that sections 21, 52 and 72A of the International Protection Act 2015 would “allow for the deportation of migrants if their applications for asylum are rejected.”
However, he added: “The Department is not forcing them to leave the country.”
“A total of 957 deportation orders were signed in 2023, but only 17 people were removed under various processes, including 52 people by enforced deportation order,” he said.
“As of the end of February this year, there were 174 deportation orders issued, with just 12 enforced orders.”
This would represent 92.7% of deportation orders not enforced.
In the statement, the Deputy said that there were “several pieces of legislation” on the statute books currently “that are not being enforced by the Department of Justice.”
“If someone applies for asylum and is rejected, there is a period where they can appeal, and if that appeal is unsuccessful, they should be sent back to their country of origin,” he said.
“But only a tiny number of people are being forced to leave.”
He added: “It’s sending a message that if you come here and apply for asylum, even if you get rejected, you don’t get sent back – you get to stay.
“This is despite the fact that the Department had the necessary powers to enforce these laws – they can’t be brought to the High Court or questioned.”
The Deputy further claimed that had the Department of Justice handled the situation differently, Ireland wouldn’t have seen the asylum situation reaching such “crisis levels”.
“If the Department of Justice had taken control of the situation and enforced the statute, then the immigration issue wouldn’t be escalating to crisis levels that we are now witnessing,” he said.
“I am calling on the Department of Justice and indeed the Minister to enforce the laws of the state and to do so in an efficient and effective manner.”
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There really must be an election coming. Such comments would have been unheard of a few months ago especially by a member of the Government parties. Let’s see Mehole Martin smack him down for his failing to toe the party line.
Justice Minister Helen McEntee is dangerously incompetent.
I don’t blame Helen,to me she”s doing a great job for the people that voted her in , ask her voters in her area.
Helen has 2 votes of no confidence already.
Helen has provided over a justice system that has saw crime levels rise to such a level that several western countries including USA issue safety warning to their citizens travelling to Ireland. This is unprecedented.
Helen claimed Dublin was safe after a foreign tourist was nearly kicked to death on Talbot street. A few days later another person was stabbed and woman raped in temple bar. Recently a Croatian man was kicked to death in Dublin.
Massive amounts of garda are resigning in record numbers so much so that they had to raise the age to allow new garda that are +50 years old.
I could go on but you get the picture.
Helen is the weakest justice minister that I have ever seen in Ireland.
she aint weak she just doesn’t give to flying fks sitting on her backside spoiled little brat getting paid to do sweet F all
I bet they do, she’s sending economic migrants everywhere except her own neighbourhood and those of her colleagues.
Why did he wait until NOW to complain?
Could it be that he wants to get into the good books of the so-called “far right” in time for the European elections??
So this man Mr. Cowan is calling on the government of which he is a member to do something. Perhaps he could raise the issue in the Dail and questioning his colleague the minister for Justice ?. Perhaps he could even consider voting against the government. But of course he will do none of that. This is just more horse crap because there are elections coming. Lie after lie after lie.
Perhaps he could call for Ireland to join forces with the UK on the Rwanda plan and indeed follow fellow EU member Denmark on the Rwanda path , I believe the UK copied Denmark in the first place .
The UK are offering help to Ireland to sign up on a plate as a solution to our illegal migrant crisis
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13376875/Britain-help-Ireland-join-Rwanda-scheme-migrants-crossing-border.html
Arse covering.
Ah yes, barry cowen, the man who broke the law and the most anti ff ff member in ireland….lol. With the amount of moaning he does about his own government, you would think he would have left the party years ago but for some strange reason, the trough is too good id say. He is like john mcguinness moaning a couple of weeks ago against his own party but neglected to tell people he has an asylum center right across the road from his constituency office in kilkenny. Dont vote for any of them, their days at the trough are done. We had enough!
I agree with not voting for FF on account of some members displaying common sense, but I also don’t think we should be so quick to reject them. Realistically, all the movement to the right amongst the electorate isn’t going to result in a right-majority government, unless by a miracle the nationalist parties + moderate-to-right-leaning independents get enormous seats and can form a coalition. Anyway that’s almost certainly not happening this general election. BUT, the pendulum is swinging and finally the government, as snakey and vile as its traitorous ministry has been, is moving right on immigration. So any amount of dissidence amongst FF/FG/SF/L/G gets us closer to policy goals that match the nationalist parties. A few years of nationalist parties gaining traction and candidates becoming credible beyond X posts, and the 2030 election might result in major party changes.
Well, its everyone to their own really Alan, I can only advise people but you have to ask yourself, what is the actual fruit of their huge salaries and from barry cowens perspective, there is none and he talks out both sides of his mouth especially when he is in the party. People are not going to vote far right enmass at all, they will vote for the new parties and independents. The two new parties are the independent ireland party and the rural alliance party I think is the second one but they consist of already experienced politicians who are against the current marzist agenda. We need a mixed bag here but we cant be voting for people who are part of a party that call us far right, racist and treat us like third class citizens in our own country. You vote for them you are effectively saying that the treatment in newtown is ok with you yunno. We have to take a stand and going back to the same old rubbish will not do at all if our country and people are to survive. Their strings are pulled by other above them and thats not what they are paid to do which is the reason why their is only sound bites like this and no actual fruit.
I’m not sure, it’s worrying. By 2030 a huge percentage of voters will be foreign born and they won’t be voting nationalist. Okay so the government is moving slight right on immigration but there is an election coming up. After the election they’ll swing back even further left and they’ll have another 4 years to flood the country.
Too little too late Barry . You also voted for the migration pact & are defending it. Let’s hope you get a good walloping come June 7th!
The Justice Department don’t want to deport these people. They want to keep them in the country as long as possible so that they can eventually become Irish citizens. That way, the corporations in this country can have all the cheap labour they want and no one can complain about it. Why else would Helen McEntee want to join the EU migration pact…. its more foreigners being shipped here from Mediterranean countries ON TOP of the people already coming here through the points of entry and Northern Ireland.
Exactly & also because they want to deliberately cause untold chaos & division so that the public are eventually begging for order . Thus giving them the excuse to usher in totalitarian order.
They don’t even need them as cheap labour*. Just as extra consumers to prop up and further grow the consumer economy. And do the same with property and housing. It doesn’t matter to them that the funding for all of this is coming from tax-payers.
* although enough of them working suppresses wages
Unfortunately they aren’t even very good consumers to drive the economy. They spend the very minimum and send the bulk of the benefits ‘home.’
Another td trying to claw back some votes with elections just around the corner. Why has it taken him until now to ask why deportation order’s are not being enforced, where has he been for the last three or four years. A lot of tds think they can pull a get out of jail free card out of there arse pocket to save them in the up and coming elections. Don’t fall for it, it’s all smoke and mirrors.
Ah good man Barry,where have you been the last 4 years?
big dairy farmers the cowens, Milking the System,but hey the voters in his area voted him in ,so that tells you the mentally there and why we have a house crisis for local Irish and a booming non Irish immigration system for profit (people farning)
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Why is he attacking his own Government when he is actually on board? Is there an election on the horizon I wonder?
I’m so irritated today from that bloody psychopath demonic woman we call justice minister that I won’t even read this article LMAO I don’t need to read it going by the headline and all i can say is she never did to busy being a kept well paid woman for sitting on her backside doing nothing. And it’s a bit late now actually doing her job just get the crazy cow out
Those who sleep with dogs wake up covered in fleas.
booming business is pest control,so much rubbish getting dumped illegally
He spoke up before about it did he?
My hole.
He is utter scum.
Cowen is the quintessential political parasite, will flip flop on everything and anything to save his place at the public sector tax payer funded trough. Are these the type of people you want representing your interests? The time is NOW, these snakes need to be removed and made politically irrelevant permanently
You don’t say Barry!!!
These people come out of the cracks after the horse has bolted.
Another election ‘promise’
How these people keep a straight face is beyond belief.
Don’t be fooled Cowen is no good
Another EU hopeful Muppet telling lies. Remember his brother,one of the main instagatiors who helped throwing Ireland over the cliff,lest we never forget.
On another note did anyone have the stomach to watch Virginia media 1 last night,Lynn boylan and Lisa chambers both defending the protesters in American colleges for taking a stand for their rights to protest, and from the other side of their mouths demonising Irish people for taking the same stand, another two Muppets trying to get on the EU gravy train,WOW.
I will reply to the deputy as he so “eloquently” retorted to my hard questions in his Tullamore Office last year, “get the f** out of here”. Not parliamentary language deputy !!
It’a McEntee’s fault.
Worst Justice Minister in history.
And I am old enough to remember Paddy Cooney, who was a fascist.
The bandwagon is in town, everybody jump on.