Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 301: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform if and when provision can or will be made for accommodation transfer to Galway city or Dublin in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2766/11]

Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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The Reception and Integration Agency (RIA) is responsible for the accommodation of asylum seekers in accordance with the Government policy of direct provision and dispersal. The person referred to in the details supplied is currently availing of RIA accommodation at Dun Gibbons Inn accommodation centre, Clifden, County Galway. The RIA has received a transfer request from this family and has responded to the effect that there were insufficient grounds to merit a change of accommodation at this time.

The Deputy should be aware that queries in relation to the status of individual immigration cases, including accommodation status at the RIA, 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.