Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 139: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the current or expected residency position in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Louth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36755/08]

Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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It is not the practice to comment in detail on individual asylum applications. As the Deputy will be aware, applications for refugee status in the State are determined by an independent process comprising the Office of the Refugee Applications Commissioner and the Refugee Appeals Tribunal which make recommendations to the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform on whether such status should be granted.

A final decision on each application is made following receipt of the recommendation of the Refugee Applications Commissioner or the decision of the Refugee Appeals Tribunal, as appropriate.

Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 140: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the current or expected residency position in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Louth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36756/08]

Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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It is not the practice to comment in detail on individual asylum applications. As the Deputy will be aware, applications for refugee status in the State are determined by an independent process comprising the Office of the Refugee Applications Commissioner and the Refugee Appeals Tribunal which make recommendations to the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform on whether such status should be granted.

A final decision on each application is made following receipt of the recommendation of the Refugee Applications Commissioner or the decision of the Refugee Appeals Tribunal, as appropriate.

Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 141: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the current or expected residency position in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36757/08]

Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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The person concerned applied for asylum on 10 March 2003. Her application was refused following consideration of her case by the Office of the Refugee Applications Commissioner and, on appeal, the Refugee Appeals Tribunal.

The person concerned initiated Judicial Review Proceedings in the High Court, challenging the decision of the Refugee Appeals Tribunal. The High Court refused the Judicial Review Leave Application.

In accordance with Section 3 of the Immigration Act, 1999 (as amended), the person concerned was informed, by letter dated 26 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 were submitted on behalf of the person concerned at that time.

The case file of the person concerned, including all representations submitted, will be fully 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, before the file is passed to me for decision.