Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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78. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the means whereby persons (details supplied) can regularise their residency status; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20275/16]

Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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I am informed by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) of my Department that the persons concerned are the subject of Deportation Orders signed on 21 June 2016. These Orders require the persons concerned to remove themselves from the State and remain outside the State.

However, if new information or circumstances have come to light, which has a direct bearing on their case, and which have arisen since the original Deportation Order was made, there remains the option of a request that I use my discretion, pursuant to Section 3(11) of the Immigration Act, 1999 (as amended) to revoke the Deportation Orders. However I wish to make clear that such a request would require substantial grounds to be successful. In the mean-time, the Deportation Orders remain valid and in place. The enforcement of the Deportation Orders remain a matter for the Garda National Immigration Bureau.

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.