Your newspaper reported (28 January) that in 2009, a total of 291 persons were deported to 26 foreign countries at a cost of €1m to the Irish State.
However, there were a couple of omissions here.
Firstly, what percentage of the aggregate immigrant population does this 291 number represent?
And secondly, who is responsible for incurring the cost of their removal?
JR Barnwell
Drumcondra, Dublin 9