Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 520: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a green card will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9238/08]

Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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I refer the Deputy to Parliamentary Question No. 134 of Thursday 23 November 2006 and the written reply to that Question.

The person concerned arrived in the State on 10 October 2003 and made an application for asylum. Her asylum application was refused following consideration of her case by the Office of the Refugee Applications Commissioner and, on appeal, by the Refugee Appeals Tribunal.

Subsequently, in accordance with Section 3 of the Immigration Act 1999 (as amended), the person concerned was informed, by letter dated 18 August 2005, that the Minister proposed to make a deportation order in respect of her. She was given the options, to be exercised within 15 working days, of leaving the State voluntarily, of consenting to the making of a deportation order or of making representations to the Minister setting out the reasons why she should be allowed to remain temporarily in the State. Representations have been received on behalf of the person concerned and will be fully considered before the file is passed to me for decision.