Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 688: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the current or expected residency status in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Meath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23652/11]

Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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I refer the Deputy to my reply to Question No. 519 of 12 January 2011. The position is unchanged since then. The reply was as follows:

The person concerned is the subject of a Deportation Order, made following the consideration of her case under Section 3 of the Immigration Act 1999 (as amended). This Order was served on the person concerned by registered post dated 25 November 2010. This placed a legal obligation on her to "present" at the Offices of the Garda National Immigration Bureau (GNIB) in order that arrangements could be made for her deportation from the State.

The person concerned failed to "present" as required and is therefore classified as a person evading deportation. As a person evading deportation, the person concerned is liable to arrest and detention for the purposes of effecting her deportation from the State. Against this background, the person concerned should, therefore, present herself to the GNIB without further delay.

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.