Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 384: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will review the case of persons (details supplied) in Dublin 6; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37906/05]

Michael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)
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I refer the Deputy to the answer I gave to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 146 on 20 October 2005 and 183 on 1 December 2005.

The persons concerned applied for permission to remain in the State under the revised arrangements announced by me on 15 January 2005 for the processing of applications from the non-national parents of Irish born children, born before 1 January 2005. For the reasons set out in my previous replies, the applicants do not meet the criteria for the granting of permission to remain in the State under the revised arrangements and their applications were refused on that basis.

All matters relating to the refusal of these applications will be taken into account by me in the context of consideration of the file under the terms of section 3 of the Immigration Act 1999, as amended.