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- Written Answers — Community Service Orders: Community Service Orders (6 Jul 2006)
Michael McDowell: The Criminal Justice (Community Service) Act, 1983 provides for the performance of unpaid work in the community by a person who is 16 years or over, who has been convicted of an offence, for which the appropriate penalty would be an immediate custodial sentence and who has given his/her consent to the Court. I wish to advise the Deputy that the number of community service orders made during...
- Written Answers — Data Protection Act: Data Protection Act (6 Jul 2006)
Michael McDowell: Under section 16 of the Data Protection Act 1988, certain categories of data controller are required formally to register with the Data Protection Commissioner. This requirement currently applies to public representatives who retain sensitive personal data relating to identifiable individuals. However, section 16 of the Data Protection (Amendment) Act 2003 makes provision for revised...
- Written Answers — Visa Applications: Visa Applications (6 Jul 2006)
Michael McDowell: I refer the Deputy to my reply of 20 June 2006 to his Parliamentary Question No. 397 and advise that the position remains unchanged. It should be noted that no reply to the request for further information from the legal representatives of the person concerned has been received to date.
- Written Answers — Refugee Status: Refugee Status (6 Jul 2006)
Michael McDowell: The person concerned arrived in the State on 19 December, 2002 and applied for asylum. Her application was refused following consideration of her case by the Office of the Refugee Applications Commissioner and, on appeal, by the Refugee Appeals Tribunal. Subsequently, in accordance with Section 3 of the Immigration Act, 1999, as amended, she was informed by letter dated 8 September, 2005,...
- Written Answers — Visa Applications: Visa Applications (6 Jul 2006)
Michael McDowell: The first named person in the details supplied by the Deputy applied for permission to remain in the State on the basis of being a parent of an Irish citizen child, born before 1 January 2005, in accordance with the revised arrangements announced by me on 15 January 2005, commonly referred to as the IBC/05 scheme. It is a requirement under this scheme that each applicant is the parent of an...
- Written Answers — Citizenship Applications: Citizenship Applications (6 Jul 2006)
Michael McDowell: The first named applicant arrived in the State on 10 July 2003 and applied for asylum on 11 July 2003. She was granted refugee status on 14 September 2004. The second named applicant arrived in the State on 8 November 2003, applied for asylum on 11 November 2003 and was granted refugee status on 12 August 2004. Both persons applied for certificates of naturalisation on 28 January 2005....
- Written Answers — Asylum Applications: Asylum Applications (6 Jul 2006)
Michael McDowell: As I stated to the Deputy in my answer to his previous Parliamentary Question 23282/06 answered on the 15 June 2006, information became available to my Department which raised serious doubts as to whether the daughter of the person concerned was a minor at the date of application for family reunification. As part of an investigation into this matter the daughter was interviewed in 2005 when...
- Written Answers — Asylum Applications: Asylum Applications (6 Jul 2006)
Michael McDowell: The person in question made a family reunification application on behalf of his wife and daughter in February 2004. Consideration of this application is ongoing and the Family Reunification section of my Department is currently awaiting a response to a query raised with the legal representative of the person concerned. On receipt of an answer the application will be considered further and a...
- Written Answers — Refugee Status: Refugee Status (6 Jul 2006)
Michael McDowell: I would refer the Deputy to my Replies to Dail Questions Nos. 244 of 25 May 2006 and 180 of 22 June 2006. The position in relation to the person concerned is that she has failed to present herself to the Garda National Immigration Bureau, as she is legally obliged to do, and, as such, she is currently residing illegally in the State. In the interests of clarity, I wish to emphasise again that...
- Written Answers — Visa Applications: Visa Applications (6 Jul 2006)
Michael McDowell: I refer the Deputy to the replies I gave to his previous Parliamentary Questions of 21 March 2006, 6th December 2005, 1 December 2005, and 20 October 2005) in relation to the persons concerned. The position remains unchanged.
- Written Answers — Visa Applications: Visa Applications (6 Jul 2006)
Michael McDowell: I refer the Deputy to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 468 of Tuesday, 31st January, 2006; 147 of Thursday, 27th April, 2006; and 427 of Tuesday, 16th May, 2006, and the written replies to those Questions. The position is unchanged.
- Order of Business. (6 Jul 2006)
Michael McDowell: I am on the committee.
- Criminal Justice Bill 2006: From the Seanad. (5 Jul 2006)
Michael McDowell: If the House is willing to discuss the amendments made in the Seanad together, I am happy to accede to the Deputy's suggestion. The first amendment made by the Seanad relates to section 5. It was on foot of an adaptation of a Fine Gael amendment in that House and it provides that a record shall be made as soon as is practicable but a failure to record the direction with regard to the...
- Criminal Justice Bill 2006: From the Seanad. (5 Jul 2006)
Michael McDowell: None of these amendments is contentious. Four of them arise from Opposition amendments and give effect to those amendments, whether they were made by this or the other House and whether they are applicable to the Criminal Law (Insanity) Bill or this Bill. I do not expect the Deputies to have any difficulty with the amendments.
- Criminal Justice Bill 2006: From the Seanad. (5 Jul 2006)
Michael McDowell: The eyes of the media are on us. The Deputy can be absolutely sure of that.
- Criminal Justice Bill 2006: From the Seanad. (5 Jul 2006)
Michael McDowell: I thank Deputies for contributing to this debate. There is consensus that the amendments made in the Seanad were sensible and I am glad this House is willing to identify with them and accept them without division. I fully accept it is embarrassing for Fine Gael and the Labour Party to contemplate division. Within two weeks they have divided three or four times on matters of central...
- Criminal Justice Bill 2006: From the Seanad. (5 Jul 2006)
Michael McDowell: Deputy Cuffe made the point that one should be conscious of the causes of crime. I agree completely that one should be, because remedial and reactive measures are not the only way that society deals with criminality and the causes of crime. I remind the Deputy that the resources to which he addressed his mind just a moment ago do not emanate from nowhere. They come from the pursuit of...
- Criminal Justice Bill 2006: From the Seanad. (5 Jul 2006)
Michael McDowell: The crucial thing that must always be remembered is that those parties that consistently opposed efforts to create a congenial climate for the creation of resources in this society should now rethink their positions. I am a good man for rethinking my position.
- Criminal Justice Bill 2006: From the Seanad. (5 Jul 2006)
Michael McDowell: Other Deputies seems to be totally blind to the factââ
- Criminal Justice Bill 2006: From the Seanad. (5 Jul 2006)
Michael McDowell: ââthat they opposed, tooth and nail, every single tax reduction to which they are now irrevocably committed to maintaining, when they were put before this House.