Overview
- The independent monitor’s report, released through freedom of information requests in May 2026, details that a charter flight to Pakistan served pork sausages to 24 deportees.
- The Pakistan removal, conducted on September 23, 2025, flew the men from Dublin to Islamabad as part of Ireland’s chartered deportation program.
- The monitor called the breakfast inappropriate and of low quality, noting halal food was understood to be available but was not specified in the flight brief.
- Air Partner, which arranged the flight for the government, changed its catering procedures after the report highlighted the lapse.
- The flight cost about €473,000, and four 2025 charters to Pakistan, Georgia, Nigeria, and Romania cost roughly €1.1 million and removed at least 205 people, with the report also logging concerns about garda filming and missing belongings but concluding the operation was humane.