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Seanad: Personal Insolvency Bill 2012: Second Stage (21 Nov 2012)

Alan Shatter: Senator Norris said the Bill was not complete. I have always been of the view that both this House and the Dáil are engaged in a legislative process. The Bill has undergone a complex developmental stage. When they were published, the heads of the Bill were submitted to the Joint Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality. When the Bill was introduced, it was the subject of a Second Stage...

Seanad: Personal Insolvency Bill 2012: Second Stage (21 Nov 2012)

Alan Shatter: I thank Senators for the detailed consideration they have given to the Bill. This is a complex piece of legislation that seeks to achieve a balance between the difficulties of debtors and the rights of creditors. It seeks to ensure that assistance is provided to people who are truly insolvent and genuinely cannot pay their debts while not allowing those who can pay a mechanism to either...

Seanad: Personal Insolvency Bill 2012: Second Stage (21 Nov 2012)

Alan Shatter: There is no provision in the Bill for the automatic writing off of debt or for the writing off of debt in circumstances where an individual is clearly in a financial position to discharge debt. They are mutually interchangeable.

Seanad: Personal Insolvency Bill 2012: Second Stage (21 Nov 2012)

Alan Shatter: Part 1, section 2, provides for a wide range of interpretations in regard to the Bill. Part 2, containing sections 7 to 22, inclusive, provides for several standard provisions in the establishment of a new insolvency service to operate the new non-judicial debt resolution processes. It sets out the functions and power of the new service and its governance arrangements. The insolvency...

Seanad: Personal Insolvency Bill 2012: Second Stage (21 Nov 2012)

Alan Shatter: I emphasise this an extremely complex and important Bill and its provisions cannot be explained in ten minutes.

Seanad: Personal Insolvency Bill 2012: Second Stage (21 Nov 2012)

Alan Shatter: If the Senator contained himself, we all might have more time. I have emphasised on more than one occasion that we should not forget that there are many different types of creditors who may be potentially involved in the new processes. Many persons or companies may be both debtors and creditors. While I can understand the somewhat visceral feelings towards financial institutions and their...

Seanad: Personal Insolvency Bill 2012: Second Stage (21 Nov 2012)

Alan Shatter: I am pleased to present to the House the Personal lnsolvency Bill 2012, a very significant Bill which provides for comprehensive reform of insolvency law and practice. It provides for new, more flexible options to address the circumstances of insolvent debtors. It will provide for alternatives to and a reform of judicial bankruptcy. It addresses the obligations of debtors and the rights of...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Property Registrations (21 Nov 2012)

Alan Shatter: Arising from concerns in relation to lack of transparency in relation to residential property sales prices and the terms of commercial leases, the Property Services (Regulation) Act 2011 provides for the establishment and maintenance by the Property Services Regulatory Authority of a Register of Residential Sales Prices and a Commercial Leases Database. The Residential Sales Prices Register...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Applications (21 Nov 2012)

Alan Shatter: The persons concerned are a family unit comprising a father, a mother and two minor children. The father and mother lodged asylum applications on 4th November, 2008. The two children were included in their mother's application meaning that any determination or decision made in her case applied equally to the two children. The asylum applications were considered by the Office of the Refugee...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Crime Prevention (21 Nov 2012)

Alan Shatter: I propose to take Questions Nos. 172 and 173 together. I wish to advise the Deputy that I am aware of both the recent presentation by the former Assistant Commissioner Tony Hickey at the Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation and the report from Retailers Ireland entitled "Tackling the Black Market and Retail Crime". I believe we, in this House, are well aware that...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Human Rights Committees (21 Nov 2012)

Alan Shatter: My Department provides periodic reports and responses to requests for comments on reports and other material to a range of Council of Europe and United Nations bodies and committees. However, I have no ministerial responsibility in relation to the establishment of such committees or in relation to their internal rules of procedure.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (21 Nov 2012)

Alan Shatter: The Deputy will be aware that the Commissioner is responsible for the detailed allocation of resources, including personnel, throughout the organisation and I have no direct function in the matter. This allocation of resources is constantly monitored in the context of crime trends, policing needs and other operational strategies in place on a District, Divisional and Regional level to ensure...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Operations (21 Nov 2012)

Alan Shatter: I have sought the information requested by the Deputy from the Garda Commissioner and I will reply to the Deputy when the report is to hand.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Transport (21 Nov 2012)

Alan Shatter: The allocation of Garda transport is a matter, in the first instance, for the Garda Commissioner in the light of his overall policing requirements. The detailed deployment of Garda vehicles is determined through a process of on-going analysis and review of An Garda Síochána's operational requirements and priorities. The process allows Garda management to distribute available...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalene Laundries (21 Nov 2012)

Alan Shatter: The Inter-Departmental Committee has indicated that it intends to present a substantial Final Report as soon as possible and at the latest before the end of this year.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (21 Nov 2012)

Alan Shatter: I am informed by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) that an application from the person concerned for residence in the State on the sole basis of civil partnership to an Irish national is currently under consideration. Applications are dealt with in chronological order and I understand that INIS expect a decision to issue in this case before the end of November, 2012....

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic Violence (21 Nov 2012)

Alan Shatter: Ireland supports, in principle, the aims and terms of the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence. Cosc, the National Office for the Prevention of Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence, an executive office within my Department, actively contributed to all stages of the drafting process in relation to the Convention. That...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Semi-State Sector Remuneration (21 Nov 2012)

Alan Shatter: The details sought by the Deputy are set out in the tables below for each of the years 2010, 2011 and 2012. No bonuses were paid to any staff in the years in question. With the exception of a small number of employees who receive payments in respect of Personal Retirement Savings Accounts (PRSAs) in lieu of membership of a pension scheme, all staff in question are members of Civil Service...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Semi-State Sector Remuneration (21 Nov 2012)

Alan Shatter: I propose to take Questions Nos. 182, 183 and 184 together. There are no semi-State companies under the aegis of my Department. My Department has two agencies under its remit - the Civil Defence Board and the Army Pensions Board. Both agencies are staffed by civil servants. No employee of these agencies has a salary of more than €100,000 per year.

National Vetting Bureau (Children and Vulnerable Persons) Bill 2012: Report and Final Stages (20 Nov 2012)

Alan Shatter: I thank the Deputies opposite and also Deputy Niall Collins's predecessor as his party's justice spokesperson, Deputy Calleary, for the constructive and helpful contributions made during the debate on the Bill as we went through its various Stages. Helpful contributions were made not just by the Deputies present, but also by others in the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Justice, Defence and...