James Bannon (Longford-Westmeath, Fine Gael)
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Question 474: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding an application for a visa to remain here in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Longford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18496/11]

Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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I am informed by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service that the person referred to by the Deputy has no application for a visa to remain in the state, as no such visa exists. The person concerned is the subject of a Deportation Order signed on the 8 March, 2011, notified to him by registered post on 16 March 2011 and copied to his legal representative on the same date. As a result of this, he is not eligible to apply for any type of Irish visa and is instead required to remove himself from the State and remain thereafter outside the State. If he fails to remove himself from the State, he should contact the Garda National Immigration Bureau without further delay to arrange 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.