John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail)
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Question 135: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform if a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny is entitled to work in Ireland without a work permit or stamp 4 in view of the fact that their parents are legally in Ireland since 2000 and that they are finished their education in Ireland in 2009 and have worked since that date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44573/10]

Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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I wish to inform the Deputy that the parents of the person concerned were granted permission to remain in the State for two years from 24/02/05 under the revised arrangements for the non-EEA parents of children born in Ireland prior to 1 January, 2005, known as the IBC/05 Scheme. Subsequent to Romania's joining of the European Union on 1 January 2007, the position is that Romanian citizens, who had been granted permission to remain in the state under stamp 4 conditions, do not have to apply to have their permission renewed and do not have to register again with the Gardaí when their existing permission to remain expired. Furthermore, they do not require a work permit to work in the State. This also applied to their dependents who were resident in the State prior to 1 January 2007 and have continued to reside here since that 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.