Jack Wall (Kildare South, Labour)
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Question 345: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the position regarding an application for a visa in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Carlow;; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29255/10]

Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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I wish to inform the deputy that the person concerned made a visa application in May of this year and was granted a multiple-entry visa until 19 June, 2010 in line with the permission to remain in the State which he then had. I should add that the father of the person to whom the Deputy refers was granted permission to remain in the State in October of 1997 under the arrangements then in place for the non-EEA parents of Irish citizen children. As the dependant of a family in which the parent/s were granted permission to remain under the aforementioned arrangements, the person concerned availed of the same permission to remain as that granted to his father. The person in question subsequently registered with the Garda National Immigration Bureau, in his own right, in June of 2007. I am informed that the person concerned presented at his local Immigration Office on 30 June, 2010 in order to renew his permission to remain in the State. This permission to remain is currently valid until 19 June, 2011. My Department has no record of the person concerned having subsequently applied for an extension of his multiple-entry visa.