Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 280: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a stamp four or travel document will issue in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 1; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12889/09]

Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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The person concerned was informed by the Repatriation Unit in writing on 19 January 2009 that, as an exceptional measure, his permission to remain in the State had been renewed for three years until 3 December 2011. In order to register, the person concerned, under Section 9(2)(a) of the Immigration Act 2004, is required to produce a passport issued by his national authorities which establishes his identity and nationality, unless a satisfactory explanation of the circumstances preventing him from procuring it is provided.

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. He was advised in writing by the Travel Document Unit of the Immigration Services Section of my Department on 11 November 2008 and 24 March 2009 that he would not be issued with a Temporary Irish Travel document as he had not produced satisfactory evidence to show that his national embassy in London was not in a position to provide Consular Assistance to him.