Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 210: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will clarify the position regarding residency in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30710/11]

Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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I am advised by the Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) that the person referred to by the Deputy was granted permission to remain in the State on 11 September 2001 under the arrangements then in place for the non-EEA parents of Irish born children. This permission to remain was renewed on a number of occasions since that time and her permission is currently valid until 10 September, 2014. I should add that officials in the Citizenship Division of INIS have informed me that there is no record of an application for a certification of naturalisation from the person referred to by the Deputy.

I should 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 specially 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.