Eric Abetz (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

asked the Minister representing the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, upon notice, on 15 December 2011:

In regard to the Pontville Immigration Detention Centre:

(1)   What number of detainees have been released after they were granted permanent visas and, of those, how many have remained in Tasmania.

(2)   Have any of the detainees of the detention centre been allowed into the community while not having been granted permanent visas; if so, how many.

Joe Ludwig (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The Minister for Immigration and Citizenship has provided the following answer to the honourable senator's question:

(1) Departmental records indicate that, between 1 September 2011 and 31 January 2012, 264 clients were granted Protection visas.

Departmental records also indicate that seven clients in Pontville IDC who were granted Protection visas, were settled in Tasmania . Two of these have since moved interstate.

(2) Departmental records indicate that, between 1 September 2011 and 31 January 2012, 21 clients from Pontville IDC were approved for community detention.