Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 473: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will examine the circumstances in the case of an application for residency in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18491/11]

Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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I refer the Deputy to my reply below to Parliamentary Question No. 164 of 16 June, 2011. The position is unchanged since then.

I am informed by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) that the person referred to by the Deputy has no application pending for residency. The person concerned is the subject of a Deportation Order, signed on 10 September 2009, 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). He has been evading his deportation since 6 October 2009 and should he come to the notice of the Garda authorities, he would be liable to arrest and detention. He should, therefore, present himself to the Garda National Immigration Bureau without any further delay.

In relation to the Deputy's assertion that the applicant '...has never been served with a deportation order and is not aware of its existence', the Deportation Order was sent on 16 September, 2009 by registered post to the applicant's last notified address and copied to his legal representatives. In representations submitted by the applicant under cover of a letter from his legal representatives dated 4 August 2009, the applicant provided the address which the Deportation Order was sent to just over one month later on 16 September 2009 and is the same address referred to by the Deputy in his question.

The registered post was returned to the Department. The reason for non delivery was that 'the applicant was unknown at the address'. It is the responsibility of the individual concerned to notify me of any change of address. The Deportation Order was sent by registered post to the applicant at the address which he had notified my Department of just over one month previously and copied to his legal representative and therefore the Deportation Order was served on him. It requires him to remove himself from the State or else present himself without further delay to the Garda National Immigration Bureau to arrange for his deportation.

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.