Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 169: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the current or expected position in respect of an application for citizenship in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29406/11]

Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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I am advised by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) that the person referred to by the Deputy was granted permission to remain in the State on 14 June, 2005 under the revised arrangements for the non-EEA parents of children born in Ireland prior to 1 January, 2005, commonly known as the IBC/05 Scheme. This permission to remain was renewed in 2007 and in 2010, and is currently valid until 14 June, 2013. Officials in the Citizenship Division of the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) inform me that there is no record of an application for a certificate of naturalisation from the person referred to in the Deputy's question.

I should remind the Deputy that queries in relation to the status of individual immigration cases may be made directly to INIS by Email 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.