Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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Question 254: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the number of applications to revoke a deportation order and the number of deportation orders revoked in 2009 and 2010. [47742/10]

Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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In reply to the Deputy's question on the number of applications to revoke a Deportation Order, these statistics are not recorded in my Department in a manner as would enable me to readily provide the Deputy with the requested information. Any piece of correspondence submitted on behalf of an applicant after a Deportation Order is made against them is potentially an application to revoke the Deportation Order. However, not all such pieces of correspondence are accepted as applications to revoke. Therefore, the Deputy will appreciate that the extraction and complication of such information would involve the deployment of staff from core duties such as case processing to manually examine and cross reference an inordinate amount of files. This could not be justified as an effective use of staff where there are other significant demands on such resources within my Department.

A total of thirty four deportation orders were revoked in 2009 and a further twenty eight have been revoked up to 10th December 2010.