Eoghan Murphy (Dublin South East, Fine Gael)
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Question 204: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will review an asylum seeker case (details supplied). [10118/12]

Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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I am informed by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) that the person referred to by the Deputy has not been granted leave to remain in the State.

The person concerned is the subject of a Deportation Order, signed on 25 January 2005, following a comprehensive and thorough examination of his asylum claim and his application for subsidiary protection, and a detailed examination of the representations he submitted for consideration under Section 3 of the Immigration Act 1999 (as amended).

The effect of the Deportation Order is that the person concerned must leave the State and remain thereafter out of the State. The person concerned has since 2005 been, and remains, under a continuing obligation to remove himself from the State but has failed to do so. If the individual concerned does not remove himself from the State, the enforcement of the Deportation Order becomes an operational matter for the Garda National Immigration Bureau.

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. This service enables up to date information on such cases to be obtained without the need to seek information by way of the Parliamentary Questions process. The Deputy may consider using the e-mail service except in cases where the response from INIS is, in the Deputy's view, inadequate or too long awaited.