Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 203: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the position regarding an application for residency in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 2; if a review can or will be undertaken in this matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5028/11]

Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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I refer the Deputy to the Reply given to his Parliamentary Question No. 1108 of Wednesday, 25 September 2010, Parliamentary Question No. 149 of Thursday, 25 November 2010 and Parliamentary Question No. 517 of Wednesday, 12 January 2011. The status of the person concerned, as set out in that reply, remains unchanged.

The person concerned is the subject of a Deportation Order following a comprehensive and thorough examination of his asylum claim and a detailed examination of the representations he submitted for consideration under Section 3 of the Immigration Act 1999 (as amended). If there has been a change in the circumstances of the person concerned, or new information has come to light which has a direct bearing on his case, there remains the option of applying to me for revocation of the Deportation Order pursuant to the provisions of Section 3 (11) of the Immigration Act, 1999, as amended. However I wish to make clear that such an application would require substantial grounds to be successful.

The effect of the Deportation Order is that the person concerned must leave the State and remain thereafter out of the State. The enforcement of the Deportation Order is an operational matter for the Garda National Immigration Bureau. 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.