Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 180: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will review the proposal to deport a person (details supplied) in County Waterford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48106/09]

Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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I refer the Deputy to my detailed Reply to his earlier Parliamentary Question, No. 112 of Thursday, 2 July, 2009, in this matter. As the Deputy is aware, Section 3 (11) of the Immigration Act 1999 (as amended) provides the Minister with powers to amend or revoke a Deportation Order. An application seeking to revoke a Deportation Order must set out new facts or circumstances which have arisen and which were not capable of being advanced at the time the decision to deport was made. My Department has no record of such an application having been made by, or on behalf of, the person concerned. The enforcement of the Deportation Order is an operational matter for the Garda National Immigration Bureau.