Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 3 June 2004
161 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of persons who had applied for residency on the basis of parentage of an Irish child before February 2003 but had not received a decision on their application who were from the new member states of the EU and who are now entitled to be here under EU treaty rights. [17007/04]
Amharc ar fhreagraThe information requested by the Deputy is not readily available. Applications for permission to remain on the basis of parentage of an Irish-born child are not recorded in a manner which would provide for a breakdown of the nationalities of the applicants. There were 11,493 such applications on hands on 19 February 2003. I can inform the Deputy that nationality figures are available on decisions made on such applications. In 2002 there were 4,076 approvals on such applications, of which 261, 6.4%, related to nationals of accession states that joined the EU on 1 May 2004.
