Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 532: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a person (details supplied) in Dublin 8 will receive their Garda National Immigration Bureau card; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14981/08]

Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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I would refer the Deputy to the reply given to his Dáil Question Number 211 of Thursday 10 April 2008. The status of the person concerned remains the same as set out in that reply.

The person concerned failed to present as requested with the Garda National Immigration Bureau, 13-14 Burgh Quay, Dublin 2 on 20 January 2005 and is classed as an evader. The effect of the Deportation Order is that the person concerned must leave the State and remain thereafter outside the State. The enforcement of the Deportation Order remains an operational matter for the Garda National Immigration Bureau.

Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 533: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position in relation to an application for refugee status in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 6; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14982/08]

Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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The Office of the Refugee Applications Commissioner, (ORAC), determined on 17 November, 2006, in accordance with the terms of the Dublin II Regulation, Council Regulation (EC) No. 343/2003, that Germany is responsible for examining the asylum application of the person concerned. The Dublin II Regulation is intended to prevent the phenomenon of 'asylum shopping' across Europe and sets out criteria for determining which Regulation State is responsible for examining an asylum application where applications have been lodged in more than one Regulation State or whereby an asylum seeker has been granted a visa to enter another Regulation State and has entered that other State before entering Ireland and making an asylum application here. At the same time, it guarantees applicants that one State will process their application, thereby preventing the creation of 'refugees in orbit', a situation which had previously pertained in Europe.

The person concerned was requested to present to the Garda National Immigration Bureau, (GNIB), on Wednesday 29 November, 2006, at 14.30hrs to make arrangements for his transfer to Germany where he had previously made an asylum application. He failed to present as requested and is now recorded as having evaded his transfer. The person remains illegally present in the state and should present himself to GNIB or the Gardaí without further delay.