Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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158. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which progress has been made to accommodate her efforts to regularise the position of a person to achieve naturalisation in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Longford who has lived in this jurisdiction for more than 12 years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9782/15]

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 is the subject of a Deportation Order made on 11th March, 2005. The person concerned has been evading deportation since 19th May, 2005 and, as such, is liable to arrest and detention for the purposes of having the Deportation Order enforced. The person concerned should, therefore, 'present' to the Garda National Immigration Bureau without further delay.

Representations were received on behalf of the person concerned from the Deputy, pursuant to the provisions of Section 3 (11) of the Immigration Act 1999 (as amended), to have their Deportation Order revoked. This application is under consideration at present. The Deputy might wish to note that any such decision will be to ‘affirm’ or to ‘revoke’ the existing Deportation Order. In the mean-time, the Deportation Order remains valid and in place.

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.