Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 666: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding a residency application in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 2; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23630/11]

Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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I am informed by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) that the person referred to by the Deputy was granted refugee status in April 2005.

I assume the Deputy is enquiring about separate applications for Family Reunification that the person referred to made in July 2005 and in June 2006. In relation to those applications, the legal representative of the person referred to by the Deputy was advised by INIS on 23rd May, 2011, that as no response was received to a number of requests made by INIS for documentation, the Family Reunification application of their client was deemed withdrawn but that it was open to their client to make a fresh Family Reunification application.

I should remind the Deputy that queries in relation to the status of individual Immigration cases may be made direct 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.

Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 667: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the procedure to be followed in respect of an application for residency in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23631/11]

Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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Arising from the refusal of his asylum application, and in accordance with the provisions of Section 3 of the Immigration Act 1999 (as amended), the person concerned was notified, by letter dated 7th March, 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. In addition, he was notified of his entitlement to apply for Subsidiary Protection in accordance with the European Communities (Eligibility for Protection) Regulations 2006.

The person concerned submitted an application for Subsidiary Protection. When consideration of this application has been completed, the person concerned will be notified in writing of the outcome.

In the event that the application for Subsidiary Protection is refused, the position in the State of the person concerned will then 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 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.