"We cannot force Britain to take back immigrants we would turn away," says Ivana Bacik

Labour Party leader Ivana Bacik said disinformation was characterising the debate, and the Government had no handle on the situation. The Minister for Justice had been forced to rely on anecdote, she said, without any clear data. She said it was a scandal that Baggot Street hospital was standing idle when there was a tent city in nearby Mount Street, she said, adding that she had visited that location today. "We cannot force Britain to take back immigrants we would turn away," she said. If the Rwanda policy was fundamentally incompatible with international human rights law, although it was now the law in Britian, then there was no way anyone could be repatriated to the UK, she said. "We do have data, and we do gather data," Mr Harris said, "but we don't count the people who come over the border. "But very experienced staff carry out interviews (at the IPO office) and they are telling Government that the majority now come from Britain." The Taoiseach said people were getting frustrated because they wanted to help people in need, but they also wanted to know that there was a rules-based system in place.