Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 244: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform if and when travel documents will issue as requested in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34386/10]

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 permission to remain in the State until 17 May 2014 by virtue of exercising EU Treaty Rights. The holding of this permission does not extend to the issuing of an Irish temporary travel document.

INIS informs me that the person referred to had an application for an Irish temporary travel document refused on 04 February 2010 and was advised to contact the consular authorities in respect of his own country to establish the procedures to be followed which would allow for him to procure a national passport whilst resident in this State.

I am informed that the person concerned subsequently had a second application for an Irish temporary document refused on 19 July 2010 as he held a valid travel document issued by the Togolese authorities permitting travel to Togo.

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.