Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 145: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the position regarding residency and citizenship in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44638/10]

Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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I wish to inform the Deputy that the person concerned arrived in the State accompanied by her mother in August 2003.

The mother was granted permission to remain in the State in 2005 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. The permission to remain was renewed recently and is currently valid until April 2013. Minor children under the age of sixteen, such as the person concerned, who are resident in the State and are in the care of non-EU parents/legal guardians who have been granted permission to remain under the IBC/05 Scheme avail of the same permission to remain as their parents. The person concerned is obliged to register with the Garda National Immigration Bureau, or with her local Immigration Officer, in her own right on reaching sixteen years of age. This should be done one month prior to her 16th birthday.

I have been informed that the mother of the person concerned has not made an application for Citizenship 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.

Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 146: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the position regarding residency in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Laois; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44639/10]

Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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I refer the Deputy to my detailed Reply to his earlier Parliamentary Question, No 179 of Thursday, 4 November 2010, and the written Reply to that Question.

The position in the State of the person concerned now falls to be considered for Subsidiary Protection in accordance with the European Communities (Eligibility for Protection) Regulations 2006 (S.I. No. 518 of 2006) and this application is under consideration at present. When consideration of this application has been completed, the person concerned will be notified in writing of the outcome.

In the event that the application for Subsidiary Protection is refused, the position in the State of the person concerned will then be decided by reference to the provisions of Section 3 (6) of the Immigration Act 1999 (as amended) and Section 5 of the Refugee Act 1996 (as amended) on the prohibition of refoulement. All representations submitted, including those of a medical nature, will be considered before the file is passed to me for decision. Once a decision has been made, this decision and the consequences of the decision will be conveyed in writing to the person concerned.

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 147: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the position regarding residency and citizenship in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 7; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44640/10]

Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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The person concerned has had his leave to remain in the State renewed for a further six month period, to 6 February 2011. This decision was conveyed in writing to the person concerned by letter dated 6 August 2010.

There is no record in my Department of the person concerned having submitted an application for citizenship.

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.