Deportation Orders

Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 19 July 2012

Thursday, 19 July 2012

Questions (556)

Patrick Nulty

Question:

560 Deputy Patrick Nulty asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of aged out foreign national young persons who had been in the care of the State prior to reaching the age of 18 years against whom deportation orders have been made and or against whom deportation orders have been executed each year for the past 10 years in tabular form; the number of years each young person had been in the State prior to becoming aged out and-or deported, if applicable; the nationality of each young person; the country to which each was deported, if applicable; if each young person had originally entered the State with or without a parent of guardian; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36892/12]

Written answers

Minister for Justice and Equality (Deputy Alan Shatter)

I wish to inform the Deputy that the details requested by him are not recorded by my Department in a manner as would enable me to readily provide him with such information. It is not possible to disaggregate the details of every person deported for the last 10 years to ascertain, in consultation with the Health Service Executive (HSE), whether such persons had ever been in the care of the HSE. The Deputy will appreciate that the extraction and compilation of such information would require my officials in the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) to individually examine thousands of files and consult with the HSE and I could not justify the deflection of such officials from their day to day work to assemble this information.