Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 525: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the progress made to date in the determination of residency in the case of persons (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48478/10]

Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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The persons concerned, a husband and wife, have no current permission to remain in the State. As a result, they were informed, by separate letters dated 18th August, 2009, that the Minister proposed to make Deportation Orders in respect of them. They were given the options, to be exercised within 15 working days, of leaving the State voluntarily, of consenting to the making of Deportation Orders or of making representations to the Minister setting out the reasons why Deportation Orders should not be made against them. Representations have been submitted on behalf of the persons concerned.

The position in the State of the persons concerned will now 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 will be considered before the files are passed to me for decision. Once decisions have been made, these decisions and the consequences of the decisions will be conveyed in writing to the persons 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.