Vol. 566 No. 1
666 Ms O. Mitchell asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the status of a person (details supplied) from Romania who withdrew their refugee status application when their Irish child was born 18 months ago. [12096/03]
The Supreme Court gave its judgment in the cases of L and O on the 23 January 2003 and found that the Minister was entitled to deport the persons concerned who are the parents of Irish-born children. At that time there were over 11,000 applications on hand in respect of which no decision has been made. The case to which the Deputy refers is one of those cases. No further processing is taking place on these cases pending a determination by Government on the general policy to be adopted. I have given the Government a preliminary assessment of the implications of the judgment and, in the near future, I intend to bring to Government a more comprehensive assessment and proposals for action on foot of it.
