Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)

This amendment sets out a series of criteria for the guidance of immigration officers for deciding whether to give or renew a non-national permission to be in the State. These cover a number of factors, as listed in the amendment, to the extent that they are known to the immigration officer or represented by the non-national to the officer. As a matter of operational practice the renewal of a registered non-national's permission is done as a matter of routine at the time the registration is being renewed. This list of criteria will be of significance primarily then, when the question of not renewing a permission arises.