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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (1 Oct 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: I am advised by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) of my Department that there is no record of an application for a right of residency in the State, accompanied by the right to work, based on parentage of an Irish citizen child in respect of the person referred to by the Deputy. The Deputy may be interested to know that INIS has recently developed a new application form...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Deportation Orders (1 Oct 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: I am advised by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) of my Department that the person referred to by the Deputy is the subject of a Deportation Order and is therefore not entitled to residency. A request to revoke the Deportation Order has been received but in circumstances where proceedings seeking to quash that Order are ongoing before the High Court and the matter is...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (1 Oct 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: I am advised by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) of my Department that correspondence is due to issue to the person mentioned in the coming days. Queries in relation to the status of individual immigration cases may be made directly to the INIS by e-mail using the Oireachtas Mail facility which has been specifically established for this purpose. This service...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (1 Oct 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: I am advised by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) of my Department that documentation requested was received by INIS and acknowledged in August 2015. I understand that application will be processed shortly. 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...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (1 Oct 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: I am advised by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) in my Department that no record of an application for a right of residency in the State can be found based on the details supplied by the Deputy. It is open to this individual to lodge an application for a right of residency in the State, as the dependant of an Irish national. Queries in relation to the status of...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (1 Oct 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: I am advised by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) of my Department that, in response to a notification pursuant to the provisions of Section 3 of the Immigration Act 1999 (as amended), the person concerned has submitted written representations. The position in the State of the person concerned will now be decided by reference to the provisions of Section 3 (6) of the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Applications (1 Oct 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: I am informed by the Citizenship Division of the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) that there is no record of an application for a certificate of naturalisation from the person referred to by the Deputy, who currently has permission to reside in the State until 5 October 2016. It is open to any individual to lodge an application for citizenship if and when they are in a...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Vetting Applications (1 Oct 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: I am informed by the Garda authorities that records at the Garda Central Vetting Unit indicate that no Garda Vetting application has been received from the registered organisation concerned in respect of the individual referred to by the Deputy. In the circumstances, I suggest that the individual contact the authorised signatory of the organisation directly.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (1 Oct 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: I am advised by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) of my Department that the first named person concerned has permission to remain in the State until 4th November, 2015 on immigration Stamp 4 conditions. The second named person concerned has been granted permission to remain in the State, on immigration Stamp 3 conditions, for the period to 4th November 2015. These...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (1 Oct 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: I am advised by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) of my Department that the application, by the person concerned, for residence under the Free Movement provisions is currently under examination. Further documentation was requested in support of the application on 26 August, 2015 but has not been submitted to date. A decision will issue very shortly on the case and will...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Deportation Orders Re-examination (1 Oct 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: I am advised by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) of my Department that the person concerned is the subject of a Deportation Order made on 15 July 2011. Representations were received from the person's legal representative, to request the Minister to use her discretion, pursuant to Section 3 (11) of the Immigration Act 1999 (as amended), to revoke the Deportation...

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Marriage Bill 2015: Committee Stage (30 Sep 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: As I said during the Second Stage debate, the very question raised by the Deputy was extensively discussed and extensive legal advice on it was sought. I will just go over the detail of the policy again and maybe add a little extra to what I said previously. The policy based on the new constitutional context is that civil partnership registration will cease after a reasonably short period...

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Marriage Bill 2015: Committee Stage (30 Sep 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: I would like to make a couple of points. I have set out the legal advice I have received in this regard. As Deputy McNamara will be well aware, the rights of cohabitants under the 2010 Act are quite limited. The Act provides only for rights of redress in the case of a relationship of dependency. When the Deputy speaks about changing civil partnership, he is really raising a separate...

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Marriage Bill 2015: Committee Stage (30 Sep 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: The issue in question will be dealt with primarily in a separate Bill - the finance and succession Bill.

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Marriage Bill 2015: Committee Stage (30 Sep 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: This is about marriage so it is not specifically addressed here.

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Marriage Bill 2015: Committee Stage (30 Sep 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: If the Deputy wants me to, I am happy to respond on the individual issue outside the committee. My understanding and advice is that this is either a matter for the Minister for Finance, the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform or the Minister for Social Protection. It would be part of a general process of legislative change with respect to those issues as opposed to being dealt with...

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Marriage Bill 2015: Committee Stage (30 Sep 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: I signal my intention to bring an amendment on Report Stage that will introduce a new section 9. The purpose of the amendment will be to remove the requirement for civil partners who have registered their civil partnership in Ireland to have to give the three-month notice when seeking to marry one another. This amendment is to reduce any unnecessary administrative burden on civil partners...

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Marriage Bill 2015: Committee Stage (30 Sep 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: I signal my intention to bring a Report Stage amendment to section 20. It is technical in nature and corrects a typographical error. It will insert the word "by" at the beginning of subsection (b). If amended, the text would read "by the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (7)", so it is a minor correction.

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Marriage Bill 2015: Committee Stage (30 Sep 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: This is dealt with in the Civil Registration Act 2004, which provides for the categories of bodies and organisations that may apply for registration of persons on the register of solemnisers maintained by the Registrar General. Before changing those categories, which is what the Deputy suggests, we would have to consider implications and what it might mean. It is a matter for the...

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Marriage Bill 2015: Committee Stage (30 Sep 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: I addressed that when I was speaking on Second Stage. Civil partnerships that are legally entered into in other countries retain the recognition, up to the point of six months after the enactment of the Bill.