Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 241: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform if he will review or revoke a deportation order in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34383/10]

Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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The person concerned is the subject of a Deportation Order, signed on 6 May 2005, following a comprehensive and thorough examination of his asylum claim, and a detailed examination of the representations he submitted for consideration under Section 3 of the Immigration Act 1999 (as amended).

Following consideration of representations received from the person concerned, asking that his Deportation Order be revoked, in accordance with the provisions of Section 3(11) of the Immigration Act, 1999 (as amended), the Deportation Order was affirmed and the person concerned and their legal representative were advised of this decision by letters dated 21 September 2010.

If new information or circumstances have come to light, which have a direct bearing on their case and which have arisen since the most recent decision to affirm the Deportation Order was made on 21 September 2010 and could not have been notified to me in advance of that decision, there remains the option of applying to me for revocation of the Deportation Orders pursuant to the provisions of Section 3 (11) of the Immigration Act, 1999, as amended. However I wish to make clear that such an application would require substantial grounds to be successful and must relate to information which has not previously been considered.

The effect of the Deportation Order is that the person concerned must leave the State and remain thereafter out of the State. The enforcement of the Deportation Order is an operational matter for the Garda National Immigration Bureau.

I should remind the Deputy that queries in relation to the status of individual Immigration cases may be made directly to INIS by Email using the Oireachtas Mail facility which has been specifically established for this purpose. The service enables up-to-date information on such cases to be obtained without the need to seek this information through the more administratively expensive Parliamentary Questions process.