Willie Penrose (Westmeath, Labour)
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Question 259: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if an application for a visitor's visa by a person (details supplied) will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14268/05]

Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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The visa application referred to by the Deputy, reference No. 1022430, was made in Riga on 21 March 2005 and forwarded to the Department of Foreign Affairs visa office in Dublin on 23 March 2005. Visas of this kind are not covered by the Department of Foreign Affairs' delegated sanction to issue visas and the application was, therefore, referred to the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform for decision. The Department of Foreign Affairs database shows that no decision on the application has yet been made by the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform.