Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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740. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his Department will provide advice and information to two elderly Palestinians (details supplied) who arrived in Ireland in March 2025 and who are currently temporarily accommodated in a hotel; if they will be granted residency status and access to healthcare given their age and medical conditions; the next steps in their immigration and residency process; if there are health services they can access during any transitional period; the person or body they should contact for updates or further assistance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17395/25]

Jim O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay South, Fianna Fail)
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I can advise the Deputy that both persons referred to arrived in Ireland having been issued Type D Long Stay Visas. The persons concerned should now proceed to register with my Department’s Registration Office to be issued with Irish Residence Permits.

In order to be issued with Irish Residence Permits, the persons concerned must make appointments to attend the Registration Office in Burgh Quay, Dublin using my Department’s online platform. After an appointment is made, they will receive an email confirmation which will also detail what the documents they must bring to the appointment.

Full details of the Registration process can be found at the link below:

www.irishimmigration.ie/registering-your-immigration-permission/.

Arrangements for access to healthcare is outside the remit of my Department.

As an Oireachtas member, you can also request the status of individual immigration cases by e-mail, using the Oireachtas Mail facility at: IMoireachtasmail@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 Question process.