Michael D'Arcy (Wexford, Fine Gael)
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Question 175: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a decision will be made on an application for residency or a stamp four in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Wexford; and the expected period of time it will take to complete the processing of same. [27874/07]

Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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I understand from the Immigration Division of my Department that a decision to grant long term residency to the person concerned issued on 3rd November 2006. However, it would appear that the person referred to by the Deputy did not receive this correspondence. The Immigration Division has recently been in touch with the person in question advising them that the correspondence will now issue to the address provided by the Deputy.

P J Sheehan (Cork South West, Fine Gael)
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Question 176: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of applications received in each month in relation to applications by non-EEA nationals for the long-term residence scheme in every month since May 2004 to date in 2007; the number rejected as invalid applications at initial application stage each month; the number of applications granted in each month; the number of applications refused in each month; the number of applications waiting to be processed at the end of each month; the month or months that the applications that were processed made their application; the number of staff by grade for each month working in this section processing these applications; if he will reduce the waiting time for these applications; his plans to reduce the waiting time for these applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27913/07]

Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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The statistics requested by the Deputy are not readily available and would require an inordinate amount of time to obtain and an inappropriate expenditure of limited resources. I can, however, provide the Deputy with the following statistics:

The number of applications currently on hand for long term residency is 5915.

The General Immigration Division of my Department deals with a variety of applications for permission to remain in the State, including long term residency. Applications for long term residency are processed having regard to the overall workload of the Division. I understand that applications received in July 2006 are currently being dealt with.