Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 158: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of people who have left Ireland under a scheme (details supplied) in 2007 and in 2008; the countries which they have gone to; and the cost in each case to get a person reintegrated in their own country. [14288/09]

Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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In 2007, a total of 231 people voluntarily returned to their home country under the Voluntary Assisted Return & Reintegration Programme (VARRP), with a further 436 being assisted under the Programme in 2008. The average cost of each return under the VARRP during the 2007/2008 period was €3,047. The countries of return were Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Belarus, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Cameroon, Chile, China, Croatia, DR Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Georgia, Ghana, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Israel, Ivory Coast, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Lesotho, Libya, Malawi, Malaysia, Mali, Mauritius, Moldova, Mongolia, Morocco, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Russia, Serbia, South Africa, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Syria, Tanzania, Uganda, Ukraine, Venezuela and Zimbabwe.