Willie O'Dea (Limerick City, Fianna Fail)
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422. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a renewal for an Irish residence permit card will be completed (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29279/26]

Colm Brophy (Dublin South West, Fine Gael)
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The person referred to by the Deputy applied to renew their immigration permission on 28 January 2026 and this application is currently in the queue for consideration.

I understand that the extended wait times can be frustrating for applicants and I can assure the Deputy that my Department is exploring every avenue available to facilitate as many customers as possible and to increase processing capacity.

The Registration Office within Immigration Service Delivery of my Department is already open seven days a week to facilitate customers, with further measures to reduce processing times currently being implemented. Additional staff have been assigned to this work and further assignments are being examined. I expect that this will begin to address the delays currently being experienced.

The Registration Office provide a live processing date broken down by stamp category, which is updated every Monday, and is available at the following link: www.irishimmigration.ie/registering-your-immigration-permission/how-to-renew-your-current-permission/renewing-your-registration-permission-if-you-live-in-the-republic-of-ireland/#processing.

Customers may submit their renewal application up to 12 weeks prior to expiry of their permission to allow sufficient time for an application to be reached, and processed, prior to their current permission expiring.

If an application is approved, it may take up to a further 15 business days to receive the new Irish Residence Permit (IRP) card by post.

The person concerned can now directly check the status of their immigration application on the Immigration Service’s new Customer Service Portal. They can register for, or log in to their existing account, at www.portal.irishimmigration.ie/en/

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.