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Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (9 May 2012)

Alan Shatter: I am not aware that my Department has been in the market for the services referred to by the Deputy. The Deputy will appreciate that the information security management systems deployed by the Department for its own systems are a security matter and it would not be appropriate for me to comment further. However, if the Deputy has some specific suggestion in mind perhaps she can get in touch...

Written Answers — Citizenship Applications: Citizenship Applications (9 May 2012)

Alan Shatter: I am advised by the Citizenship Division of the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) that valid applications for a certificate of naturalisation were received from the persons referred to by the Deputy in May, 2011. The applications are currently being processed with a view to establishing whether the applicants meet the statutory conditions for the granting of naturalisation...

Written Answers — Legal Aid Service: Legal Aid Service (9 May 2012)

Alan Shatter: I can inform the Deputy that the provision of legal aid falls within two separate categories, i.e criminal legal aid and civil legal aid. Details in respect of each category are as follows: Criminal Legal Aid The Criminal Justice (Legal Aid) Act 1962 provides that free legal aid may be granted, in certain circumstances, for the defence of persons of insufficient means in criminal...

Written Answers — Legal Aid Service: Legal Aid Service (9 May 2012)

Alan Shatter: I wish to inform the Deputy that the provision of legal aid falls within two categories, i.e criminal legal aid and civil legal aid. The following is the position in respect of each category: Criminal Legal Aid Under the Criminal Justice (Legal Aid) Act 1962, the Courts, through the judiciary, are responsible for the granting of legal aid. An applicant for legal aid must establish to the...

Written Answers — Citizenship Applications: Citizenship Applications (9 May 2012)

Alan Shatter: I am advised by the Citizenship Division of the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) that a valid application for a certificate of naturalisation was received from the person referred to by the Deputy in February, 2010. The application is currently being processed with a view to establishing whether the applicant meets the statutory conditions for the granting of...

Written Answers — Asylum Applications: Asylum Applications (9 May 2012)

Alan Shatter: Arising from the refusal of his asylum application, and in accordance with the provisions of Section 3 of the Immigration Act 1999 (as amended), the person concerned was notified, by letter dated 30th September, 2005, that the then Minister proposed to make a Deportation Order in respect of him. He was given the options, to be exercised within 15 working days, of leaving the State...

Written Answers — Asylum Applications: Asylum Applications (9 May 2012)

Alan Shatter: The person concerned is a failed asylum applicant. Arising from the refusal of his asylum application, and in accordance with the provisions of Section 3 of the Immigration Act 1999 (as amended), the person concerned was notified, by letter dated 29th January, 2008, that the then Minister proposed to make a Deportation Order in respect of him. He was given the options, to be exercised within...

Written Answers — Citizenship Applications: Citizenship Applications (9 May 2012)

Alan Shatter: I am advised that the person in question made an application for a permanent residence card to EU Treaty Rights Section of the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) on 6 January 2012. This application was acknowledged by letter on 18 January 2012 and additional documentation in support of the application was requested at that time. Further letters were issued to the applicant...

Written Answers — Deportation Orders: Deportation Orders (9 May 2012)

Alan Shatter: Arising from the refusal of her asylum application, and in accordance with the provisions of Section 3 of the Immigration Act 1999 (as amended), the person concerned was notified, by letter dated 4th February, 2011, that the Minister proposed to make a Deportation Order in respect of her. She was given the options, to be exercised within 15 working days, of leaving the State voluntarily, of...

Written Answers — Citizenship Applications: Citizenship Applications (9 May 2012)

Alan Shatter: I am informed by my officials in the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) that the person referred to by the Deputy applied for and was granted Stamp 5 in April 2009. This permission was granted to the end of his passport which expires on 2 June 2016. A person on Stamp 5 may apply to INIS to have this permission endorsed into a new passport. A Stamp 5 entitles a person to...

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (9 May 2012)

Alan Shatter: The information requested by the Deputy is set out below. Private Office Minister for Defence Grade/Position No. Current Salary Scale Higher Executive Officer 1 Higher Executive Officer standard scale€43,816 - €55,415 (includes long service increments) Executive Officer 1 Executive Officer standard scale€29,024 - €45,616 (includes long service increments) Staff Officer 1 Staff...

Written Answers — Army Barracks: Army Barracks (9 May 2012)

Alan Shatter: I propose to take Questions Nos. 150 and 151 together. As the Deputy is aware four barracks, including Columb Barracks Mullingar, closed on 30th March 2012. Military personnel occupied on security and support functions within the four barracks have been released for operational duties leading to an efficiency gain of around €5 million per annum. In addition, there are direct cash savings...

Written Answers — Garda Representative Associations: Garda Representative Associations (8 May 2012)

Alan Shatter: I have been informed by the Garda Authorities that the total amount provided from the Garda Vote in 2011 to the Garda Representative Association and the Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors was as set out in the table which I am circulating with this answer. As the Deputy will see, the total funding provided in 2011 to the GRA was just under €228,000, and to the AGSI was just over...

Written Answers — Prison Service: Prison Service (8 May 2012)

Alan Shatter: I propose to take Questions Nos. 82 and 106 together. I have no plans to introduce legislation to create a position of Prisoner Ombudsman, although as the Deputy will be aware from the situation in Northern Ireland that a statutory basis is not a prerequisite for the operation of such an office. The primary purpose of an ombudsman is to investigate complaints and make non-binding...

Written Answers — Garda Deployment: Garda Deployment (8 May 2012)

Alan Shatter: The new Garda rosters - the first in 40 years- were introduced nationwide on a pilot basis last Monday, 30th April. It is a very significant organisational change in the Garda Síochána, one that will not only enhance the policing service throughout the country, but also have a positive impact on the working lives of members of the Garda Síochána and their families. I would like to place...

Written Answers — Courts Service: Courts Service (8 May 2012)

Alan Shatter: As the Deputy will be aware, under the Courts Service Act 1998, the management and administration of the courts is a matter for the Courts Service while the allocation of the business of the courts, scheduling of cases and management of lists are matters for the judiciary and in particular the Presidents of the courts. The Deputy will also be aware that judges are, subject to the...

Written Answers — Immigration Status: Immigration Status (8 May 2012)

Alan Shatter: It is not possible to provide the information requested by the Deputy as records on applications and decisions in relation to a change to a person's immigration status in the State are not broken down in this manner. It would require that every such application (some thousands in the period concerned) be examined to determine if domestic violence was a ground or was disclosed as a ground for...

Written Answers — Sentencing Policy: Sentencing Policy (8 May 2012)

Alan Shatter: As I said earlier, the Irish Prison Service Strategic Plan contains a number of key objectives for the next three years one of which includes the expansion of a pilot community return project which commenced last October in line with the recommendations of the Thornton Hall Project Review Group. This Community Return programme is an incentivised scheme run in conjunction with the Probation...

Written Answers — Escape of Prisoners: Escape of Prisoners (8 May 2012)

Alan Shatter: I published the Report into the escape by the prisoner referred to on the 28th March 2012. As I stated then, the decision to send this prisoner to Loughan House was wrong. At the time, I instructed the Director General of the Irish Prison Service to take all necessary steps to ensure that a mistake of this nature does not reoccur. I have since been assured by the Director General that...

Written Answers — Legislative Programme: Legislative Programme (8 May 2012)

Alan Shatter: Work on the details of the Immigration, Residence and Protection Bill 2010, which has been restored by the Government to the Dáil Order Paper , has been ongoing at my Department. This has been necessary to take account of current Government policy which is committed, under the Programme for National Recovery, to "introduce comprehensive reforms of the immigration, residency and asylum...