Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 19 September 2013
127. Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the current residency status in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38851/13]
View answerThe person concerned arrived in the State on 19 June 2008 and made an application for asylum. The Refugee Applications Commissioner refused her a declaration of refugee status by letter dated 30 December 2008. This decision was subsequently upheld by the Refugee Appeals Tribunal and this was notified to her on 29 June 2010.
On 10 August 2010 she was informed that it was proposed to make a Deportation Order in her case and she was invited to apply for Subsidiary Protection and to make representations under section 3 of the Immigration Act 1999. Having considered the Subsidiary Protection application and representations under section 3, a Deportation Order was signed on 4 May 2011. The person concerned was notified by letter dated 1 June 2011.
On 8 August 2011 she made an application pursuant to section 17(7) of the Refugee Act 1996 to be re-admitted to the asylum process. Her application was considered and she was notified by letter dated 7 September 2011 that it was refused. She requested a review of that decision on 21 September 2011. A review was carried out and she was notified by letter that it had been refused on 4 October 2011.
She instituted Judicial Review proceedings on 20 October 2011 challenging the refusal of the section 17(7) application and, accordingly, as the matter is sub judice, I do not propose to comment further.
Queries in relation to the status of individual immigration cases may be made directly to 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 INIS is, in the Deputy’s view, inadequate or too long awaited.
