Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 140: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the earliest time by which a person (details supplied) in County Kildare can be eligible in terms of residency for application for naturalisation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37042/10]

Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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An application for a certificate of naturalisation from the person referred to in the Deputy's Question was received in the Citizenship Division of my Department in July 2010.

Officials in the Citizenship Division inform me that on examination of the application submitted it was determined that the person concerned did not meet the residency requirements as set out in the Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act 1956, as amended. The person in question was informed of this in a letter issued to her on 13 July, 2010. In order to be fair to all applicants only valid applications for certificates of naturalisation can be considered.

It is open to her to lodge a new application for a certificate of naturalisation if and when she is in a position to meet the statutory requirements.

Information on the statutory requirements in relation to an application for a certificate of naturalisation is available on the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Services website at www.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.

Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 141: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform to indicate when entitlement to stamp four will apply in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37043/10]

Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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I have been informed by my officials in the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service that the person referred to by the Deputy arrived in the State in 2007 and is resident here as a dependant of her husband. As stated in my replies to previous Parliamentary Questions on 27 April, 2010 and again on 29 September 2010, dependants of applicants who have been granted Long term Residency can also apply for Long Term Residency after being legally resident in the State for 60 months. This particular long term permission does not grant them an exemption from employment permit requirements. They do not have an entitlement to a Stamp 4 immigration status.

Stamp 4 is applied to a number of different groupings within the immigration system, including long term residents, refugees, spouses of Irish Nationals, dependants of Irish nationals, persons on a working visa, certain family members of EU citizens who qualify under the relevant Regulations and some others. The applicable conditions may vary depending on the category.

The person referred to by the Deputy does not qualify for Stamp 4, at this time, under any of these categories.

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.

Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 142: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the position regarding residency in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37044/10]

Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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I wish to inform the Deputy that the person concerned was granted permission to remain in the State for a two year period in September of 2005 under the revised arrangements for non-EEA parents of children born in Ireland prior to 1 January, 2005, commonly known as the IBC/05 scheme. This permission was subsequently renewed in 2007 for a three year period up to 27 September, 2010. Given that her permission has now expired, I would advise the person concerned to present to her local Immigration Office for renewal of same.

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.

Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 143: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the residency status and entitlement to naturalisation in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 7 [37045/10]

Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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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 28 September 2010, following a comprehensive and thorough examination of his asylum claim and his application for subsidiary protection, and a detailed examination of the representations he submitted for consideration under Section 3 of the Immigration Act 1999 (as amended). This person has no entitlement to naturalisation.

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.

Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 144: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the position regarding residency in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 11; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37046/10]

Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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There is currently no application pending in my Department for residency in the case of the person whose details were supplied.

If an application for asylum has been made by the person concerned the Deputy will of course be aware that it is not the practice to comment on asylum applications that are pending.