Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 682: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the current or expected status regarding an application for residency in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Offaly; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23646/11]

Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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The person concerned is the subject of a Deportation Order signed on 18 November 2005 which required her to remove herself from the State and remain outside the State. She failed to do so. She subsequently gave birth to a child in the State on 1 October 2009 and claimed asylum for that child on 21 April 2011. She was given an undertaking on the 29 April 2011 that her deportation would not be enforced, pending the outcome of her child's application for asylum. However, the person concerned failed to 'present' as required and is therefore classified as a person evading deportation. Against this background, the person concerned should, therefore, present herself to the Garda National Immigration Bureau without further delay. I 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.