Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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263. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason a person (details supplied) appears to continue to be unqualified for regularisation of the person's residency status including entitlement to stamp 4, which the person held previously; if provision will be made for the person's child, who is a holder of a medical card and in respect of whom an issue has been raised by the educational authorities regarding entitlement to a specific fee consideration; if it is recognised that other members of the person's family have received favourable consideration in respect of residency status; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46598/18]

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 had permission to remain in the State until 22 November 2016, at which stage permission lapsed. The person has not engaged with INIS in relation to a renewal of permission, or otherwise, since then. The Deputy will appreciate that, under the relevant provisions of the Immigration Act, 2004, a non-national may not be in the State other than within the terms of a permission from the Minister for Justice and Equality.

I am further informed that it is open to the person to concerned to apply for permission to remain in the State on the basis of their parentage of an Irish citizen child. Any such application must be submitted on the Irish Citizen Child Application Form which is available on the INIS website www.inis.gov.ie.

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.