Mick Wallace (Wexford, Independent)
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60. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps he is taking to ensure that the recent Supreme Court ruling (details supplied) that the State should take account of a person's private life in certain immigration cases will be adhered to; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22699/18]

Charles Flanagan (Laois, Fine Gael)
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I am informed by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service that the judgment of the Supreme Court in the case referred to by the Deputy was delivered by the Court on 24 April 2018.

My Department will, of course, be complying with the judgment in this case and I am informed that the immigration service is studying the judgment with its legal advisors on any wider implications of the case. However, it is important to note that the Supreme Court itself in the judgment stressed that the judgment related only to the cases at hand and only on the facts of these appeals. It went on to state that whether other cases are potentially affected does not arise as these appeals concern only the respondents.