Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 1029: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the position regarding an application for residency and revocation of deportation order in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32637/10]

Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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It is noted that the address of the person concerned as supplied by the Deputy does not match the address currently on record for the person concerned. As it is incumbent on an applicant to notify my Department when they change address it would be in the best interest of the person concerned to inform my Department of their correct address without delay.

I am informed by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) that the person referred to by the Deputy has no application pending for residency. The person concerned is the subject of a Deportation Order, signed on 11 September 2003, following a comprehensive and thorough examination of her asylum claim, and a detailed examination of the representations she submitted for consideration under Section 3 of the Immigration Act 1999 (as amended). She has been evading her deportation since 26 September 2003 and should she come to the notice of the Garda authorities, she would be liable to arrest and detention. She should, therefore, present herself to the Garda National Immigration Bureau without any further delay.

While an application pursuant to Section 3(11) of the Immigration Act, 1999, as amended, for revocation of the Deportation Order has been made by the legal representative of the person concerned, this will not be considered until such time as the person concerned complies with the requirements of the Deportation Order.

The effect of the Deportation Order is that the person concerned must leave the State and remain thereafter out of the State.

The enforcement of the Deportation Order is an operational matter for the Garda National Immigration Bureau.

I should remind the Deputy that queries in relation to the status of individual Immigration cases may be made directly 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.