Written answers

Tuesday, 19 January 2010

Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform

Residency Permits

9:00 pm

Photo of Bernard DurkanBernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 625: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position regarding an application for residency in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1739/10]

Photo of Dermot AhernDermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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I refer the Deputy to Parliamentary Question No. 187 of Thursday, 17 December 2009, and the written Reply to that Question. The position in the State of the person concerned is as set out in that Reply.

In relation to the contention of the person concerned that she did not receive a letter from my Department in 2007, I wish to advise the Deputy that a letter, the essence of which was to advise the person concerned that, as she had been refused refugee status, her entitlement to remain in the State had expired, was issued to the person concerned, by registered post to her then last notified address, on 17 July 2007. That letter also notified the person concerned of the Minister's proposal to make a Deportation Order in respect of her. As applies in all such cases, she was given the options, to be exercised within 15 working days, of leaving the State voluntarily, of consenting to the making of a Deportation Order or of making representations to the Minister setting out the reasons why a Deportation Order should not be made against her.

Given that written representations were subsequently submitted on behalf of the person concerned by her legal representative, the Deputy will see that this letter has been acted on which would seem to confirm that such a letter was indeed issued to the person concerned on 17 July 2007.

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