Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 253: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position in regard to an application to remain in the State based on the parentage of an Irish-born child and an asylum application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8577/09]

Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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I wish to inform the Deputy that the closing date for receipt of applications under the IBC/05 Scheme was 31 March 2005 and that the imposition of a closing date was upheld by the Supreme Court in a judgment delivered on 20 December 2007. No application from the person concerned was received in the context of that scheme.

Since the termination of the IBC/05 Scheme there is no longer any separate procedure or stand-alone arrangement to apply for permission to remain on the sole basis of parentage of a child born in Ireland. The person concerned applied for asylum and as the Deputy will be aware, it is not the practice to comment on asylum applications that are pending.