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Figures from the Department of Justice show 601 people were deported between 2018 and 2020.
Immigration officers will be able to deport migrants without allowing them to appear before judges.
According to customs officials, removals are essential to “the integrity of the nation’s lawful immigration system”.
The Department of Justice has revealed 134 minors have been deported in the past five years.
Two boys Nonso Muojeke and Eric Zhi Ying Mei Xue have come under the media spotlight over deportation orders in recent weeks.
The government wants the new measures to take effect on 1 March next year.
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The Minister for Justice Frances Fitzgerald has called for a streamlining of the system
A further 1,890 people were refused access to the country at ports and airports.
Moussa has been living in a hostel in Ireland for seven years while the Government decides if he can stay and work here. Waiting is soul-destroying, he says, as is being made to feel like a criminal.
France’s mass-deportations of Roma Gypsies could be in breach of EU law.