Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 1064: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform when travel document will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Meath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32673/10]

Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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The Travel Document Unit of the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) informs me that the person referred to in the Deputy's Question currently has temporary permission to remain in the State until 10 November 2011.

It is generally a matter for the person concerned to contact his own national authorities in order to renew his passport. I am advised that the DR Congo Embassy in London is the appropriate office to contact in relation to this and that they are assisting their own nationals resident in Ireland in this regard. I am informed that the Travel Document Unit has no record of an application for a temporary travel document having been received in respect of the person concerned based on the information supplied by the Deputy. The procedures to be followed when applying for a temporary travel document are outlined on the INIS websitewww.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.