Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 18 September 2014
144. Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which review including revocation of deportation order has taken place in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Meath including their family, who have been living in this country for nine years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35076/14]
View answerI am advised by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) of my Department that the person concerned, together with other family members referred to by the Deputy, are the subject of Deportation Orders. The effect of the Deportation Orders are that the persons concerned must leave the State and remain thereafter out of the State.
Representations were received from the persons' legal representative asking that the Deportation Orders be revoked, in accordance with the provisions of Section 3 (11) of the Immigration Act, 1999 (as amended). This application is under consideration at present. The Deputy might wish to note that any such decision will be to ‘affirm’ or to ‘revoke’ the existing Deportation Orders. In the mean-time, the Deportation Orders remain valid and in place.
Queries in relation to the status of individual immigration cases may be made directly to the INIS of my Department by e-mail using the Oireachtas Mail facility which has been specifically established for this purpose. This service enables up to date information on such cases to be obtained without the need to seek information by way of the Parliamentary Questions process. The Deputy may consider using the e-mail service except in cases where the response from the INIS is, in the Deputy’s view, inadequate or too long awaited.
