Ciarán Cuffe (Dún Laoghaire, Green Party)
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Question 250: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the name of the airline charter company contracted by his Department to carry out deportations. [9666/05]

Michael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)
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Charter flights have been used on 13 different occasions since January 2002 to carry out the deportation of persons without permission to remain in the State. Following an EU-wide tender competition, advertised in the Official Journal of the European Union, a UK based company, Air Partner PLC, was appointed in February 2005 as the approved service provider for future flights of this type for the next two years. The result of the tender competition was published in the supplement to the official journal on 3 March 2005. It should be noted that the specific air carrier contracted by the service provider can vary from charter to charter.