Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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241. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the current or expected residency status in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Waterford; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27212/15]

Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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I refer the Deputy to my previous answer to him of 25th May (Parliamentary Question number 21179/15). The situation in relation to the person concerned remains unchanged. 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 that was effected on 16 June 2013. I am further advised that the person concerned recently illegally returned to the State in breach of the conditions of that order.

The person concerned has ongoing Judicial Review proceedings seeking to quash a decision refusing readmittance to the asylum process under Section 17(7) of the Refugee Act, 1996 (as amended). As the foregoing matters are sub judice, I am precluded from commenting further.

Queries in relation to the status of individual immigration cases may be made directly to INIS of my Department by e-mail using the Oireachtas Mail facility which has been specifically established for this purpose. The 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 in cases where the response from the INIS is, in the Deputy's view, inadequate or too long awaited.