Denis Naughten (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Fine Gael)
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Question 486: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of persons deported to third world countries in 2008; the cost involved; the ten most expensive separate deportations; the corresponding figures to date in 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29254/09]

Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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The deportation costs provided in the following table refer to the removal from the State of illegal immigrants and persons whose asylum applications were refused. The vast majority of the removals involved persons whose asylum applications were refused. Set out as follows are the costs for 2008 and until 31 May 2009 of the removal of persons subject to Deportation Orders, by scheduled/commercial and charter flights. These figures include the travel costs relating to the deportees and their Garda escorts.

The Deputy might wish to note that the figures above do not include the cost of overtime or subsistence payments for Garda escorts.

My Department deports persons to non - European Economic Area (EEA) countries. To identify the ten most expensive deportations would involve a disproportionate use of resources in disaggregating those individual costs from the cost figures quoted above. However, notwithstanding the foregoing, the single most expensive deportation in 2008 involved the removal of a Ghanaian man on 11 March 2008 at a cost of €151,900, while the most expensive removal to date in 2009 involved the removal of a Georgian man on 27 March 2009 at a cost of €35,888.

The numbers of persons deported in 2008 and until 31 May 2009 is as follows:

Denis Naughten (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Fine Gael)
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Question 487: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of deportation orders issued to date in 2009; the number of people deported; the corresponding figures for 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29255/09]

Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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The total number of persons who were issued with Deportation Orders and who were subsequently deported to date in 2009 and the corresponding figures for 2008 are as follows:

The enforcement of Deportation Orders is and remains an operational matter for the Garda National Immigration Bureau.