Vol. 526 No. 3
371 Mr. Allen asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a decision will be made on the application for naturalisation-asylum made by a person (details supplied) in County Cork who arrived here on 17 October 1999. [26624/00]
The Refugee Act, 1996, as amended by the Immigration Act, 1999, and the Illegal Immigrants Trafficking Act, 2000, was commenced in full on 20 November 2000. Under the Act, two independent statutory offices were established to consider applications/appeals for refugee status and to make recommendations to the Minister on whether such status should be granted.
These two offices are the Office of the Refugee Applications Commissioner, which will consider applications for a declaration as a refugee at first instance and the Refugee Appeals Tribunal which will consider applications for a declaration at appeal stage.
A decision on the application in question will be made upon receipt of the recommendation of the refugee applications commissioner or the Refugee Appeals Tribunal as appropriate.
