Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 723: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position in relation to an application for family reunification in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2419/09]

Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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I refer the Deputy to my Reply to his previous Parliamentary Questions taken together on 6th November, 2008. I am informed by the Immigration Division of my Department that the person referred to by the Deputy made an application for family reunification on 26 September 2005 on behalf of her husband. She subsequently withdrew that application on 3 March 2006 and made a fresh application in respect of her mother and brother.

My Department forwarded the new application to the Refugee Applications Commissioner for investigation as required under Section 18 of the Refugee Act 1996. This investigation was completed and the Commissioner submitted a report to my Department on 20 June 2006. Following the receipt of the report my Department issued a decision to the applicant on 27 July 2006 refusing the application because the subjects of the application did not qualify as dependents under Section 18(4)(b) of the Refugee Act 1996. Since the decision was issued further correspondence was received from the person in question and my Department replied to that correspondence on 5 August 2008.