Willie Penrose (Westmeath, Labour)
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Question 189: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will take steps to have the application of a person (details supplied) for permission to remain in the State processed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24030/06]

Michael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)
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As previously indicated in my reply to Parliamentary Question No 174 on 1st June 2006, applications for residency of the type referred to by the Deputy are dealt with in strict chronological order and currently take approximately four months to process following receipt of all relevant information. It is not the normal practice of my Department to expedite cases save in certain exceptional emergency circumstances. Such circumstances are considered on a case by case basis by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service following receipt of a written representation. It is open to the person in question to make such a request.