Mary Upton (Dublin South Central, Labour)
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Question 334: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform if he will review the case of a family (details supplied) who are seeking leave to remain here on humanitarian grounds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37193/10]

Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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The persons concerned are a family of three, a mother, father and their adult daughter. The mother and daughter arrived in the State on 13/03/2002 and made an application for asylum on 14/03/2002. The father arrived in the State on 01/04/2002 and made an application for asylum on 02/04/2002. The asylum applications were refused following consideration of their cases by the Office of the Refugee Applications Commissioner.

Following consideration of their cases under Section 3 of the Immigration Act 1999 as amended the Minister signed Deportation Orders in respect of the mother and father on 20/04/2010. The Deportation Order in respect of their daughter was signed on 11/05/2005.

Through their legal representative, the people concerned initiated Judicial Review Proceedings in the High Court on 27/05/2010 challenging the decision to make a Deportation Order in respect of them. As these proceedings are ongoing the matter is sub judice and it would not be appropriate for me to comment further on the case at this time.

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.