Ciarán Cuffe (Dún Laoghaire, Green Party)
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Question 310: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of persons from abroad who are in receipt of a visa allowing them to undertake voluntary work for charities or other organisations here; the number of these who have been here for between one and five years or longer; his views on granting residency to persons who have been working in the voluntary sector here for a period of three years or more; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16862/06]

Michael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)
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An Garda Síochána maintains a register of non-nationals who have been granted permission to be in the State, in accordance with the provisions of section 9 of the Immigration Act, 2004. The information which is recorded in respect of non-nationals is set out in the Second Schedule of the Act. Permission to remain is granted to non EEA nationals who are undertaking voluntary work on the basis that they or the organisation concerned have sufficient funds to maintain them in the State without recourse to State funds, services or benefits. As these conditions of permission to remain also apply to visitors it is not possible to extract the requested statistical information.