Seán Ó Fearghaíl (Kildare South, Fianna Fail)
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Question 434: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will defer the deportation of a family (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31462/11]

Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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The members of the family in question are subject to Deportation Orders and they are legally obliged to comply with any reporting requirements placed on them by the Garda National Immigration Bureau. To date they are continuing to report to the Bureau as directed.

However, 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 be based on new information which was not capable of being presented to me prior to the Deportation Orders being signed. 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.