Phil Hogan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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Question 889: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform when a holiday visa will be issued to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32102/10]

Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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The visa application referred to by the Deputy was received in the Visa Office on the 5 August 2010. Following consideration it was refused on the 9 August 2010 for the following reasons:

1. The evidence of finances available was deemed insufficient;

2. The obligations of the applicant to return to the home country were not deemed sufficient;

3. It was the opinion of the Visa Officer that the applicant may not observe the conditions of the visa, if granted.

It is open to the person concerned to submit an appeal within two months of the date of the refusal letter, in this case before the 12 October 2010. Information regarding the visa appeal process can be found on the website of the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (ww.inis.gov.ie).

I should remind the Deputy that queries in relation to the status of individual Immigration cases may be made direct to INIS by Email using the Oireachtas Mail facility which has been specifically established for this purpose. The service enables up-to-date information on such cases to be obtained without the need to seek this information through the more administratively expensive Parliamentary Questions process.