Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 323: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when an official from his Department will meet with a person (details supplied) in County Mayo. [19981/10]

Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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The Visa section of my Department can find no record of correspondence of 5th and 15th February 2010 having been received from the person referred to by the Deputy. However, the person referred to can resubmit the correspondence to the Visa section to allow for any issues raised to be addressed.

While officials of my Department regularly meet with representative bodies who act on behalf of groups of stakeholders in the area of immigration generally and visas in particular, resource constraints dictate that it is quite rare for meetings to take place with individual businesses, including individual schools or colleges. Most routine issues raised in relation to visa matters are more appropriately and efficiently dealt with by way of written correspondence, e-mail or by telephone. Exceptions to this general rule may occasionally be made if matters of unusual importance or urgency are raised. It is open to the person referred to by the Deputy to write to the Visa section outlining any such exceptional or urgent issues and the reasons why they feel that a meeting is warranted.