John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail)
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Question 166: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the reason a Garda National Immigration Bureau card has not been returned to a person (details supplied); and if he will expedite a resolution to the matter [35678/10]

Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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I wish to inform the Deputy that the person to whom he refers was granted permission to remain in the State in 2001 under the arrangements then in place for the non-EEA parents of Irish born children. This permission was renewed on a regular basis and is currently valid until 15 October, 2012. However, I am informed that the Garda National Immigration Bureau card of the person concerned was retained by GNIB when it came to light in October of 2009 that her child was no longer resident in the State. The return of this card is a matter for GNIB but I should add that the case file of the person concerned will be examined by officials of my Department given that permission to remain in the State was granted on the basis of her child residing in the State.

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.