The person concerned, a Romanian national, was granted permission to remain in the State on 10th October, 2005 under the Revised Arrangements applicable to the non-EEA national parents of Irish born children born in the State before 1st January, 2005, more commonly known as the IBC/05 Scheme. This permission to remain was valid for a two year period, to 10th October, 2007.
Following Romania's accession to the EU on 1st January, 2007, there was no requirement on the person concerned to apply to have her permission to remain in the State renewed on its expiry in 2007 given that, by then, she was an EU citizen. Additionally, as a person who held a right of residency in the State on 1st January, 2007, assuming that she continued to reside in the State on that date, she would have been exempt from the work permit requirements applicable to newly arriving Romanian nationals and those who held no right of residency in the State on 1st January, 2007.
Essentially if the person concerned has been continuously resident in the State since being granted permission to remain then she would still be exempt from work permit requirements. I should remind the Deputy that 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. The service enables up-to-date information on such cases to be obtained without the need to seek this information through the more administratively expensive Parliamentary Questions process.