Brendan Griffin (Kerry South, Fine Gael)
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Question 482: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding an application for residency in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9813/11]

Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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The person concerned made an EU Treaty Rights application which was received in my Department on 30 September 2010. This application was refused as the person concerned did not satisfy the relevant criteria. The person concerned was informed of this decision by letter dated 4 April 2011.

Subsequently, and in accordance with the provisions of Section 3 of the Immigration Act 1999 (as amended), the person concerned was notified, by letter dated 5 April 2011, that the Minister proposed to make a Deportation Order in respect of him. He was given the options, to be exercised within 15 working days, of leaving the State voluntarily, of consenting to the making of a Deportation Order or of making representations to the Minister setting out the reasons why a Deportation Order should not be made against him.

The position in the State of the person concerned now falls to 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 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 e-mail 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.