Written answers

Thursday, 20 October 2011

Department of Justice, Equality and Defence

Deportation Orders

5:00 pm

Photo of Bernard DurkanBernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 156: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the procedures to be followed in respect to an application for residency in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30468/11]

Photo of Alan ShatterAlan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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The person concerned is the subject of a Deportation Order, made on 25th January, 2005, following a comprehensive and thorough examination of her asylum claim and of her representations in support of her case to remain in the State. This Deportation Order was served by registered post dated 9th February, 2005 which placed a legal obligation on the person concerned to comply with any reporting requirements placed on her by the Garda National Immigration Bureau. The person concerned failed to report to that Bureau on 17th February, 2005 as directed and, as such, she was classified as a person evading deportation, a position which obtains to this day.

The person concerned remains the subject of a Deportation Order, the effect of which is that she is required to leave the State and remain thereafter out of the State.

The Deputy will appreciate that in light of the above clarification the person concerned could not be deemed to have an outstanding application for residency. Indeed, it would be somewhat illogical to reward persons who have evaded deportation for several years by granting them residency in the State. Against this background, I do not propose to do so in the context of 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 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.

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