Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent)
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114. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will revoke a deportation order in respect of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35620/16]

Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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In accordance with Section 19(1) of the Refugee Act, 1996 (as amended) I am specifically required to take all practicable steps to ensure that the identity of applicants is kept confidential. Accordingly, I am limited in what I can say in relation to individual cases.

On a general note, deportation orders are not made in respect of applicants who are in the protection process, whether part of the Dublin Convention process (whereby applicants have their asylum case processed in the first EU country in which they land) or at the substantive asylum or subsidiary protection stages of the process, and there is therefore no deportation order in place in this case. Due process takes place including appeals of decisions of the Office of the Refugee Application Commissioner to the Refugee Appeals Tribunal and it is also open to any applicant to seek judicial review of any decision made. This applies in the case referred to by the Deputy. It is only at the end of these processes that consideration is given to the making of a deportation order and this is done in accordance with section 3 of the Refugee Act 1996.