Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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Question 216: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if, further to Question No. 38 of 9 March 2006, he will confirm that a person (details supplied) who entered here as an unaccompanied minor in 1999, who was granted leave to remain in October 2002 and can apply for naturalisation in October 2007, could be given a temporary, once-off travel document that would allow them visit their mother's grave and return here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11175/06]

Michael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)
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Temporary travel documents are never intended to be issued as a substitute for a passport from a person's own country of origin. However, in exceptional circumstances they can be issued in the event that a person has been unreasonably refused a passport from their country of origin.

There is no evidence that the person concerned has made an application for a temporary travel document and the option is therefore open to the individual concerned to make such an application. In the event that an application is made, documentary evidence must be provided to show that the person concerned cannot obtain a passport from their country of origin.