I have been informed by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration service (INIS) that the person referred to by the Deputy made an application on 6 August 2013 for permission to remain in the State on the basis of a De Facto relationship with an Irish national. These applications are dealt with in chronological order and currently it is taking up to six months to process them. A decision will issue on this application in the coming months.
Queries in relation to the status of individual immigration cases may be made directly to the INIS by e-mail using the Oireachtas Mail facility which has been specifically established for this purpose. This service enables up-to-date information on such cases to be obtained without the need to seek information by way of the Parliamentary Questions process.
The Deputy may consider using the e-mail service except in cases where the response from the INIS is, in the Deputy's view, inadequate or too long awaited.