Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent)
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132. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of family reunification applications under the Refugee Act 1996 granted and refused by month to date in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49479/17]

Charles Flanagan (Laois, Fine Gael)
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As a refugee may include a number of family members in his or her application for family reunification there can be multiple outcomes to any particular application, with some family members approved and some refused following an examination of the application. Statistics are therefore maintained on the number of decisions made on the subjects of an application rather than on the number of applications per se.

The table provides the numbers of persons granted and refused family reunification under the provisions of the Refugee Act by month to date in 2017: