Peadar Tóibín
Question:450. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the guidelines relating to the cost of replacing a Garda National Immigration Bureau card if the original is lost or stolen. [54229/13]
View answerTuesday, 17 December 2013
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Section 19 of the Immigration Act, 2004 (as amended), provides that a non-national is required to pay a fee to the registration officer, An Garda Síochána, for the issue of a registration certificate. In practice this is the card referred to by the Deputy. This fee is set by regulations made by the Minister for Justice and Equality with the consent of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform. The fee also applies in circumstances where, as a result of a card being lost or stolen, a new Registration Certificate has to be issued. The fee is currently €300; it does not apply to those categories of persons subject to the fee waiver as set out in the Immigration Act 2004 (Registration Certificate Fee) Regulations 2012 (S.I. No. 444 of 2012).
While my Department is, of course, prepared to look at the particular circumstances of every case where a person requires to have a lost or stolen certificate replaced, a strong case would have to be made as to why the fee for the reissue of the certificate should to be waived. Persons who are issued with a registration certificate should be aware that it is an important document which should be kept safely at all times. The loss or theft of a registration certificate should be reported immediately to An Garda Síochána.
Question No. 451 answered with Question No. 443.