Deportation Orders.

Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 27 January 2005

Thursday, 27 January 2005

Questions (167)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

Question:

166 Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of special flights chartered for the purpose of removing deportees since this practice was introduced; the percentage of deportees removed in this manner; the cost of each chartered flight to the Exchequer including Garda time; the cost-saving to the State of this method of removal; and if there are no cost-savings, the estimated additional cost to the State of this method of removal. [2240/05]

Written answers

Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform (Mr. McDowell)

I would refer the Deputy to the reply I gave to Question No. 55 on Wednesday, 8 December, 2004. The position is updated as follows in the following table:

No. of non-nationals deported

Date	Destination	Adults	Minors	Total	Cost Euro
15 December 2004	Romania and Moldova	39	2	41	€82,700

A total of 1725 deportations have been carried out by the Garda national immigration bureau since January 2002 to date. Some 341 of these were effected using charter flights. This represents approximately 20% of the total number of deportations effected during this period.