Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 20 October 2009
353 Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of deportation orders that have been signed to date in 2009; the number of these that have been implemented; the number of deportation orders issued in 2008; the number of the 2008 orders implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37132/09]
View answerThe total number of persons who were issued with Deportation Orders in 2008 was 679. Of these 161 were subsequently deported. From 1 January 2009 to 30 September 2009 the total number of Deportation Orders signed was 860 of which 193 have subsequently been enforced.
The enforcement of Deportation Orders is and remains an operational matter for the Garda National Immigration Bureau.While every effort is made to effect these orders as speedily as possible the process is regularly delayed by judicial challenges commenced by persons who are due to be deported. Evasion of deportation orders is also a factor that can lead to delays in removing people from the state.
354 Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 486 of 9 July 2009, the cost of deportations; the cost of the ten most expensive individual deportations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37133/09]
View answerThe deportation costs provided below refer to the removal from the State of illegal immigrants and persons whose asylum applications were refused. The vast majority of the removals involved persons whose asylum applications were refused.
Set out in a table are the costs for 2008 and up to 30 September 2009 of the removal of persons subject to Deportation Orders, by scheduled and charter flights. These figures include the travel costs relating to the deportees and their Garda escorts.
|
Year |
Cost of scheduled/commercial and charter flights |
|
€ |
|
|
2008 |
927,091 |
|
2009 (up to 30 September) |
520,925 |
The Deputy might wish to note that the figures above do not include the cost of overtime or subsistence payments for Garda escorts.
My Department deports persons to non — European Economic Area (EEA) countries. To identify the ten most expensive deportations would involve a disproportionate use of resources in disaggregating those individual costs from the cost figures quoted above. However, notwithstanding the foregoing, the single most expensive deportation in 2008 involved the removal of a Ghanaian man on 11 March 2008 at a cost of €151,900, while the most expensive removal to date in 2009 involved the removal of a Georgian man on 27 March 2009 at a cost of €35,888. In both cases attempts to remove the men by scheduled flight were unsuccessful due to their violent reactions to their deportation. For safety reasons they were subsequently removed by charter flights.
The numbers of persons deported in 2008 and up to 30 September 2009 are as follows:
|
Year |
Deportation Orders effected |
|
2008 |
161 |
|
2009 (up to 30 September) |
193 |
|
Total |
354 |
