Michael Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent)
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1134. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of an application for citizenship by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31125/21]

James Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)
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My Department has no record of having received an application for citizenship from the person referred to by the Deputy. The person concerned submitted an application for a residence card as a family member of an EU citizen on 4 October 2016. This application was examined in detail and a decision was made to refuse their application on 4 July 2017.

A review of this decision to refuse permission was received by my Department on 3 November 2017. However, the person failed to present appropriate evidence to demonstrate that they are dependent on the EU citizen in the State. Therefore, a decision was made to uphold the initial refusal decision on 14 April 2021.

A new application for a residence card as a family member of an EU citizen was submitted on 31 May 2021. Processing of this application is ongoing at present.

Queries in relation to the status of individual immigration cases may be made directly to my Department by e-mail using the Oireachtas Mail facility (inisoireachtasmail@justice.ie), 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 is, in the Deputy’s view, inadequate or too long awaited.