Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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544. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if a travel document will issue to facilitate a humanitarian visit to a person's mother in their country in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21652/15]

Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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The Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) of my Department advise me that in exceptional cases an application for an Irish temporary travel document may be considered in respect of qualifying non Irish nationals who are resident in Ireland. In all such cases, INIS must be satisfied that there is no alternative open to the applicant before an Irish temporary travel document will issue. The person concerned has to show that they have made reasonable and formal efforts to obtain a national passport, that it has been formally and unreasonably refused and that their own consular authorities are unable to offer consular assistance to them whilst resident in the State.

I am advised by the INIS that no application for a temporary Irish Travel document has been received in the Travel Document Unit in respect of the person concerned.

Full information on Travel Documents and the applicable application form is available on the INIS website at www.inis.gov.ie.

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