Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 20 October 2011
146 Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the current or expected position in respect of an application for residency in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Carlow; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30458/11]
View answerI have been informed by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) that the person referred to by the Deputy has permission to remain in the State until 11 August 2012 based on being the holder of a work permit. I should remind the Deputy that queries in relation to the status of individual Immigration cases may also be made direct to INIS by e-mail 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.
147 Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the current or expected position in respect of an application for residency in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 22; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30459/11]
View answerThere is currently no application for residency status under the Immigration Acts pending in my Department in the case of the person whose details were supplied. This is without prejudice to any application which the person concerned could have made, or might make, under the statutory arrangements relating to the making of asylum applications which, as the Deputy is aware, it is not the practice to comment on. It is also without prejudice to any permission that may have been, or which could be granted to the person arising from there being reasonable grounds for believing that the person is a victim of human trafficking.
