Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 212: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the current or expected position in regard to residency/naturalisation in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Carlow; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31474/12]

Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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I am informed by officials in the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) that the first named person made an application for a permanent residence card to the EU Treaty Rights Unit on 18 October, 2011. The applicant was informed by letter dated 11 April, 2012 of the decision to refuse his application for a permanent residence card.

A request by the applicant for a review of the decision to refuse a permanent residence card was received on 17 April, 2012. This application is currently under consideration by EU Treaty Rights Review Unit and a decision is expected to issue to the applicant in the next few weeks.

I am informed by officials in the Citizenship Division of INIS that there is no record of any application for a certificate of naturalisation being made by the persons concerned. It is open to any individual to lodge an application for citizenship if and when they are in a position to meet the statutory requirements as prescribed in the Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act 1956 as amended.

I should remind the Deputy that queries in relation to the status of individual Immigration cases may be made direct 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.