Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 181: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his Department has received correspondence from the legal representatives of persons (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8680/08]

Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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I can inform the Deputy that both of the persons referred to by him have, through their legal representatives, submitted applications for Subsidiary Protection in accordance with the provisions of the European Communities (Eligibility for Protection) Regulations, S.I. No. 518 of 2006. These applications are under consideration at present. When consideration of these applications has been completed, the persons concerned will be individually notified, in writing, of the outcome.

In the event that the Subsidiary Protection applications are refused, the individual case files of the persons concerned, including all representations submitted, will then be considered under Section 3 (6) of the Immigration Act 1999 (as amended) and Section 5 of the Refugee Act 1996 (as amended) on the prohibition of refoulement. When this latter consideration has been completed, the case files of the persons concerned will be passed to me for decision.