Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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Section 9 of the Immigration Act 2004 places an obligation on non-Irish nationals, subject to the exemptions listed below, who have entered the State to present at their local registration office for the purpose of being placed on a register of non-nationals who have permission to reside in the State. It is important to note that European Economic Area nationals who are the subject of the EU freedom of movement legislation, of which many thousands reside in the State, are not required to register.

The categories of non-Irish nationals exempted by law from the requirement to register under section 9 of the Immigration Act 2004 include the following:

(a) a non-national under the age of 16 years;

(b) a non-national who was born in Ireland;

(c) a non-national not resident in the State who has been in the State for a period of not more than 3 months since the date of his or her last arrival in the State:

(d) a non-national seaman not resident in the State whose ship remains at a port in the State and who does not land in the State for discharge.

The stamp given to the person denotes the type of permission to remain in the State granted to the person concerned. The table below sets out the information sought by the Deputy according to permission type and corresponding stamp number.

These are the main categories of non-nationals subject to registration requirements. It should be noted that in any year approximately 35% of registrations are first time registrations and the remainder are persons renewing their registration. The figures above also include persons who are registered and who have multi- year permission to remain and who therefore require to renew their registration less frequently than every 12 months. Persons are required to keep their registration officer informed of any changes to their particulars of registration. Thus, the details of the register will change from time to time and are kept updated on a regular basis.

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 as of 11/07/2016, there are approximately 3,200 people awaiting processing of their representations under section 3 of the Immigration Act, 1999 (as amended). This includes both failed asylum seekers and anyone who entered the section 3 process by any other means, for example, those whose immigration permission has lapsed or not been renewed. The majority of the cases on hand falls into this latter category and past experience shows that a number will have left the State without notifying the immigration authorities or will have obtained a different permission in the interim. Over the past number of years huge progress has been made in dealing with the volume of cases on hand - for example, the cases on hand in 2011 stood at around 11,000.

Please see the following table of breakdown of numbers granted Leave to Remain from 01/01/2013 to 11/07/2016.

Breakdown from 2013 to date (11/07/2016) of individuals granted permission to remain following a consideration under Section 3