Paul Kehoe (Wexford, Fine Gael)
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Question 276: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the status of the application for the revocation of the deportation order for persons (details supplied) in County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11952/05]

Paul Kehoe (Wexford, Fine Gael)
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Question 277: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the way in which a person previously deported from Ireland to Romania can now legally re-enter the country to live with his wife and child; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11954/05]

Paul Kehoe (Wexford, Fine Gael)
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Question 278: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the options available to a person (details supplied) in order that he can come here to live with his spouse and child; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11957/05]

Paul Kehoe (Wexford, Fine Gael)
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Question 279: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the way in which a person previously deported from Ireland to Romania can now legally re-enter the country to live with his spouse and child; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11988/05]

Paul Kehoe (Wexford, Fine Gael)
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Question 280: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the status of the application for the revocation of the deportation order regarding a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11990/05]

Michael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 276 to 280, inclusive, together.

If a person who is the subject of a valid deportation order wishes to return to the State, he or she may apply to have the deportation order revoked under section 3(11) of the Immigration Act 1999. A person from Romania must also hold a valid visa to travel to the State. There is no automatic right of residency for a non-national married to an Irish national and a person who marries an Irish national may apply for permission to enter and reside in the State with his or her Irish national spouse. It is the normal procedure where such an application is received from a person who is the subject of a deportation order and marries an Irish national outside the State, that both the revocation and the residency issues are considered at the same time.

The person in question is the subject of a valid deportation order signed on 26 October 2000 following a failed asylum application in the State. He was deported on foot of this order in September 2003 and is obliged to remain outside the State. He married an Irish national in his home country in December 2003 and made an application for the revocation of the deportation order on 6 February 2004. Following consideration of the circumstances of the case this application was refused on 27 April 2004 and a notification issued to this effect.

The person concerned can make a fresh application for the revocation of the deportation order and permission to enter and remain in the State based on marriage to an Irish national if there has been any change to his circumstances since 27 April 2004.