Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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600. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 173 of 3 July 2014, if all documentation requested by her Department in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin has been received in the relevant section; if in the event of a positive decision it will be possible for them to make an application for naturalisation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31615/14]

Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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I am advised by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) 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 their parentage of an Irish born minor citizen child, and based also on the principles of the Zambrano Judgment.

The person concerned has not, to date, provided all of the documentation requested in a letter to their legal representative, dated 29th April, 2014. The outstanding documentation should therefore be submitted to the INIS as soon as possible. Upon receipt of the outstanding documentation, the position in the State of the person concerned can be considered further.

The Deputy will appreciate that as the person concerned has no current right of residency in the State, the issue of an application for a Certificate of Naturalisation does not arise at this time. However, in the event of a favourable residency decision being made, it will be open to the person concerned to apply to the Citizenship Division of my Department for a Certificate of Naturalisation when they are in a position to meet the lawful residency criteria applicable to the lodgement of such applications. Details on the criteria to be met by persons lodging such applications are available from the INIS Website (www.inis.gov.ie).

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.