Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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75. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a person (details supplied) will be assisted to renew their GNIB card in view of the circumstances. [22653/18]

Charles Flanagan (Laois, Fine Gael)
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I am advised by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) of my Department that the person concerned applied for temporary residence in the State based on parentage of an Irish Citizen Child on 23 October 2017. The application was not accepted and returned to the person concerned as a national passport was not provided - this is a mandatory document required to process any application. You will appreciate how important it is to have the true personal details of any person claiming any form of a right of residency in the State.

The person concerned subsequently informed INIS that they were unable to obtain a national passport from their embassy. INIS requested that the person concerned provide documentary evidence from that embassy confirming that they would not issue them a national passport. As it stands, the person concerned has failed to provide INIS with any documentary evidence that their embassy will not issue them with a national passport or that they have attempted to obtain a national passport.

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.