Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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474. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of an application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36010/18]

Charles Flanagan (Laois, Fine Gael)
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The Deputy will appreciate that, as the representation has come through her office from a third party and not directly from the applicant themselves, in accordance with relevant data protection provisions, the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service is precluded from disclosing information relating to any individual case to a third party. Therefore it would be inappropriate for us to comment further on the case at this time.

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.