Michael McNamara (Clare, Independent) | Oireachtas source

You cannot issue a transfer decision without another country accepting responsibility, so that was done. I will move on.

The Minister says it does not work generally. Senator Ward suggested, and I would have assumed the same thing, that Ireland would be a beneficiary and we would send back more people than we accept but in 2022 we took back 15 people and transferred two. In the same year, Germany transferred 4,158 people. We transferred two. I accept Germany is a bigger country but it is not that much bigger. France transferred 3,311 people. Will the Minister explain the massive discrepancy between the ability of the German and French departments of justice to implement their immigration policy and our ability to implement ours? It is the same system. How come they are able to operate it and we are not?