THE deportation of a single asylum-seeker cost more than €35,000, the Department of Justice has confirmed.
The man was one of 193 asylum-seekers removed from the state in the first nine months of last year at a total cost of €520,925.
The average cost of deporting failed asylum-seekers is now in the region of €2,700 although that does not include the cost of garda overtime and subsistence.
According to the Department of Justice, a total of €927,091 was spent on deportations in 2008, primarily to Africa and eastern Europe.
http://www.tribune.ie/news/home-news/article/2010/feb/07/deporting-one-asylum-seeker-cost-35000/
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i have little doubt the government will grant refugee status to any asylum seeker claiming they are too expensive to process deportation
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