Michael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)
Approximately one fifth of deportation orders are actually executed. Over 60% of orders issued are deemed evaded, in that the persons concerned fail to report to the Garda National Immigration Bureau as requested in the notification letter sent to them. The legal effect of this is that the persons concerned can be arrested and detained pending their removal for failing to comply with the instruction to report but, in practice, the GNIB informs me, most of those evading are believed to already have left the State of their own accord and have been removed from the social welfare system.
| Table 1: Number of applications for asylum received and the number of recommendations by the Office of the Refugee Applications Commissioner to grant refugee status, at first instance, in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006* |
|
2002 |
2003 |
2004 |
2005 |
2006* |
|
No. of Applications received |
11,634 |
7,900 |
4,766 |
4,323 |
1,156 |
|
No. of recommendations to grant refugee status (at first instance)** |
894 |
345 |
430 |
455 |
132 |
| *As of 31 March 2006. |
| **These recommendations refer to the year in which the recommendations were made and not the year in which the applications were lodged. |
| Table 2: Number of appeals submitted to the Refugee Appeals Tribunal and the number upheld at appeal stage in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006*. |
|
2002 |
2003 |
2004 |
2005 |
2006* |
|
No. of appeals received |
5,149 |
4,993 |
4,785 |
3,976 |
927 |
|
No. of appeals upheld (granted refugee status)** |
1,099 |
832 |
708 |
511 |
47 |
| *As of 31 March 2006 |
| **Substantive and accelerated appeals. There were also 84 manifestly unfounded appeals during this period and 53 appeals under the EU Dublin Convention and Dublin II regulation. |
| Figures include adjustments to cater for cases re-admitted to the RAT process in the context of judicial review proceedings. |
| Table 3: Number of deportation orders signed and number effected in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006*. |
|
2002 |
2003 |
2004 |
2005 |
2006* |
|
No. of Deportation Orders signed |
2,430 |
2,411 |
2,915** |
1,899** |
670** |
|
No. of Deportation Orders effected |
521 |
591 |
599*** |
396*** |
74*** |
| * As of 31 March 2006. |
| **In addition to the 2,915 deportation orders signed in 2004 and the 1,899 deportation orders signed in 2005, there were also 238 Dublin II regulation transfer orders signed in 2004 and 426 Dublin II regulation transfer orders signed in 2005. As of the end of March 2006, 87 such transfer orders have been signed. |
| ***In addition to the 599 deportation orders effected in 2004 and the 396 deportation orders effected in 2005, there were also 65 Dublin II regulation transfers effected in 2004 and 209 Dublin II regulation transfers effected in 2005. As of the end of March 2006, 33 such transfer orders have been effected. |
| Table 4: Number of applications granted for leave to remain. |
|
2002 |
2003 |
2004 |
2005 |
2006 |
|
Parentage of Irish Born Child |
3,113 |
172 |
0 |
See table 5 |
See table 5 |
|
Marriage to an Irish National |
86 |
132 |
144 |
85 |
37 |
|
Dependent of EU Citizen |
138 |
77 |
112 |
105 |
35 |
|
Other Grounds** |
158 |
86 |
175 |
137 |
26* |
| *As at 31 March 2006 |
| **Under section 3(6) of the Immigration Act 1999 the Minister, in determining whether or not to make a deportation order, shall have regard to 11 specified considerations. The determination as to whether a deportation order is made or whether leave to remain is granted is not dependent on whether, in fact, the person has made representations for leave to remain. Thus, statistics are not maintained to distinguish cases where representations have been made for leave to remain and those where no such representations were made. |
| Table 5: Number of applications for permission to remain made by non-national parents of Irish born children born before 1 January 2005 and the number of such applications granted permission to remain.* |
|
No. of applications for permission to remain made by the non-national parents of Irish born children born before 1 January 2005 |
17,917 |
|
No. of applications for permission to remain granted |
16,693 |
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