Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent)
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599. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons granted stamp 4 permission to remain under the categories, by Ministerial discretion, under exceptional measure, by exceptional circumstance, and on the basis of an Irish born/citizen child, in tabular form; if he will provide the data for each of the years from 2017 to 2022 for people who came through the international protection process, and for those who did not come through the international protection process (details supplied). [15417/23]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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The statistics requested by the Deputy are not maintained by the Immigration Service of my Department in this manner.

These permissions are classified on the Immigration Service databases as Stamp 4 immigration permissions. There is no way of identifying those specifically granted a Stamp 4 by Ministerial discretion, under exceptional measure, by exceptional circumstance, and on the basis of an Irish born/citizen child.

The retrieval of this data would require a case-by-case examination of all applications received during the timeframe specified and would represent a significant diversion of resources from day to day processing.

A Stamp 4 immigration permission provides that the holder can work without a permit and set up a trade or business in the State. Examples of when a person may be granted a Stamp 4 immigration permission include:

- To join or reside with their Irish spouse, civil partner or de-facto partner

- As a convention or programme refugee, or based on subsidiary protection

- To join a family member who is a recognised refugee or has been granted subsidiary protection

- To remain with their child who is an Irish citizen

- Under the Investor and Entrepreneur Programme

- For Long Term Residence.

A person may also be granted a Stamp 4 immigration permission after they have had permission to work in Ireland:

- With a valid Critical Skills Employment Permit for 2 years

- With a valid employment permit for 5 years

- As a researcher (with a valid Hosting Agreement) for 2 years.