Robert Troy (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail)
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578. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she will review a decision to disallow an application for an employment permit by a person (details supplied). [23239/17]

Mary Mitchell O'Connor (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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The Employment Permits Section informs me that this General Employment Permit application was refused on the 28/03/2017 on the grounds that a significant amount of documentation confirming that the application was in respect of an eligible carer in a private home was not provided.  The applicant did request a review of this decision, however, as this request for review was received outside the prescribed timeframe of 28 days it was not possible to consider this review.  The timeframe for a request for a review is prescribed in regulations made under the Employment Permits Act 2006, as amended and I have no discretion in this regard.

Full information on the eligibility criteria for employment permits for carers in a private home is available on my Department’s website at/.

It is open to the applicant, if they feel that they satisfy the criteria, to submit a new application following all of the relevant procedures and to include the required documentation for this particular employment permit type.