The Department of Foreign Affairs is investigating the incarceration of an Irish-born baby in an asylum detention centre in Scotland for over a week.
The one-year-old girl and her Cameroonian mother were detained on the 17th of August while returning to the State from a visit to Scotland.
The two were returning to the Republic via Northern Ireland when immigration officials apprehended them in Belfast.
They were then returned to Scotland and held in the Dungavel Immigration Removal Centre.
An attempt was made by Scottish immigration authorities to deport the pair to Uganda but Ms Mercy Ikolo - the mother of the child - was quoted by media in Scotland as saying "I kept telling them I'm from Cameroon but they said they were sending me to Uganda. I have never been to Uganda."
She reportedly refused to board the plane and was returned to Dungavel where the pair has been held since.
Campaigners in Scotland have been critical of the Home Office's policy of incarcerating children and claim it to be in contravention of the United Nations Human Rights Charter and of the European Convention on Human Rights.
When contacted this afternoon by ireland.com, the Department of Foreign Affairs said it was investigating.