Joe Costello (Dublin Central, Labour)
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Question 376: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason a person (details supplied) in Dublin 7 who has an Irish born child since 2002 is not entitled to residency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15145/09]

Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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I wish to inform the Deputy that the person to whom he refers entered the State and applied for asylum on 2 April 2003. This application was refused and the person in question subsequently undertook to leave the State voluntarily. Her departure from the State was confirmed on 14 December 2004.

The person concerned did not make any application for permission to remain in the State under the arrangements then in place for the parents of children born in Ireland. Since the termination of the IBC/05 Scheme, there is no longer any separate procedure or free-standing right of any person to apply for permission to remain in the State on the sole basis of parentage of a child born in Ireland.