Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 275: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if a further temporary travel document will issue in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12884/09]

Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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I am informed by the Immigration Services Section of my Department that the person in question has not been granted refugee status in the State in accordance with the Refugee Act 1996 and therefore is not entitled to apply for a 1951 UN Convention Travel Document. The person in question was issued with a Temporary Travel Document in May 2008 valid to November 2008 to assist him in obtaining a national passport. The person in question was advised in writing by the Travel Document Unit on 20 February 2009 that the temporary travel document previously issued to him would not be renewed. It is open to the person concerned to seek Consular Assistance from his own national embassy located in London.