Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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189. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 206 of 13 February 2014, if an application has been made for update of stamp 4 or naturalisation in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15923/14]

Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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As the Deputy has been previously advised, if the person concerned has made an application for asylum or subsidiary protection, the position is that it is not the practice to comment on such applications for so long as they remain in the asylum or protection processes.

I can advise the Deputy, however, that I am informed by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service of my Department that the person concerned has applied for a right of residency in the State, accompanied by a right to work, based on his parentage of an Irish born minor citizen child, and based also on the principles of the Zambrano Judgment. This application is under consideration at present. When consideration of this application has been completed, and a decision arrived at, the person concerned will be notified in writing.

Queries in relation to the status of individual immigration cases may be made directly to the INIS of my Department 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 the INIS is, in the Deputy's view, inadequate or too long awaited.