Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 153 of 17 January 2013, in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15, wherein it was indicated that the applicant should attend the Garda National Immigration Bureau to register and advise them of his misplaced GNIB card which he already did in December 2012 but has not as yet received any confirmation and that he was in continuous employment up to 2010 when unemployment levels rose significantly in the economy in general; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6559/13]

Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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I refer the Deputy to my reply to Parliamentary Question No. 153 of 17, January 2013 which is set out below.

The permission to remain in the State of the person concerned expired on 8 September, 2012. As this person is now currently out of permission to remain in the State, he should attend the GNIB to register and to advise them of his misplaced GNIB card.

Currently, the case file of the person concerned is being reviewed by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service on foot of information received from the Garda National Immigration Bureau. I should add that I am informed that the person concerned has no recent employment history in the State over the past 3 years. Taking into account the circumstances outlined above when a decision on the future status of the person concerned is made he will be written to directly informing him of the outcome.

It is anticipated that a decision on the future status of the person concerned will be made shortly and he will be written to directly informing him of the outcome.

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.