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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Personal Insolvency Act (26 Jul 2017)

Charles Flanagan: The Insolvency Service of Ireland (ISI) has confirmed that as of 14 July 2017, 463 review applications under s.115A of the Personal Insolvency Acts have been notified to the ISI. 448 of these were initiated in the Circuit Court, and 15 were initiated in the High Court. A breakdown of the 463 applications is as follows: - 254 are currently being administered by the Courts Service (there has...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Road Traffic Offences (26 Jul 2017)

Charles Flanagan: I wish to thank the Deputy for her clarification and acknowledge that she is referring to specifically recording any criminal offence by someone operating a rickshaw at the time of the alleged offence. The operation of the Garda PULSE system is a matter for the Garda Commissioner and I have no direct role in its administration. However, I am advised that An Garda Síochána...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Strength (26 Jul 2017)

Charles Flanagan: As the Deputy will appreciate, it is the Garda Commissioner who is responsible for the distribution of resources, including personnel, among the various Garda Divisions and I, as Minister, have no direct role in the matter. Garda management keeps this distribution of resources under continual review in the context of crime trends and policing priorities so as to ensure that the optimum use...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Expenditure (26 Jul 2017)

Charles Flanagan: As the Deputy may be aware, the Office for Internet Safety (OIS) operates on an administrative basis within my Department. The costs relate primarily to staff pay costs and are absorbed in the general departmental budget.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (26 Jul 2017)

Charles Flanagan: I am advised by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Services (INIS) of my Department that the person concerned applied for a right of residency accompanied by a right to work based on their parentage of an Irish citizen child. The application was received in the relevant section of the INIS on 15 November 2016. A letter issued to the person concerned to advise them of the outcome of...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Educational Services for Prisoners (26 Jul 2017)

Charles Flanagan: I am advised that the Irish Prison Service provides a wide range of rehabilitative programmes to those in custody that includes education, vocational training, healthcare, psychiatric, psychological, counselling, welfare and spiritual services. These programmes can offer purposeful activity to those in custody while serving their sentences and encouraging them to lead law abiding lives on...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (26 Jul 2017)

Charles Flanagan: I am advised by the Irish Prison Service that the Incentivised Regimes Policy was introduced on a phased basis across all prisons in 2012 and is now operational in all institutions. The Incentivised Regimes Programme provides for differentiation of privileges between prisoners according to their level of engagement with services and quality of behaviour. The objective is to provide tangible...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service Staff (26 Jul 2017)

Charles Flanagan: I can advise the Deputy that I have been informed by the Irish Prison Service that there is an automatic internal medical review of medical evidence of a candidate who is deemed medically unfit at pre-employment and candidates are free to submit additional medical evidence as part of their original job application. There is no appeal mechanism around pre-employment assessments.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Contracts Data (26 Jul 2017)

Charles Flanagan: The Deputy will wish to be aware that the Request for Tender for contractors to be included on the Department's Cleaning Framework, which was published on 29 January 2010, included a provision that: "Under Article 27 of Directive 2004/18/EC and Regulation 27 of European Communities (Award of Public Contracts) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 329 of 2006), Service Providers must provide a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Commissions of Inquiry (26 Jul 2017)

Charles Flanagan: The Deputy will appreciate that any internal review being conducted by An Garda Síochána in relation to this case is entirely a matter for the Garda Commissioner and her management team and I, as Minister, have no role in this regard. I must inform the Deputy that for the reasons already set out in my response to her in Parliamentary Question No. 68 of 12 July 2017, I remain of the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Shooting Rights (26 Jul 2017)

Charles Flanagan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 465 and 539 together. I can inform the Deputy that there is no proposal to ban night time shooting. At a meeting of the Firearms Consultative Panel (chaired by my Department) held on April 5th 2016, shooting groups stated that illegal shooting at night is a serious safety issue which needed to be addressed. As a result a working group on night time...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Station Closures (26 Jul 2017)

Charles Flanagan: The Deputy will appreciate that the Garda Commissioner is primarily responsible for the effective and efficient use of the resources available to An Garda Síochána and I, as Minister, have no role in the matter. Under the Programme for a Partnership Government, the Government is committed to launching a pilot scheme to reopen 6 Garda stations, both urban and rural, to determine...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Refugee Legal Services (26 Jul 2017)

Charles Flanagan: The Legal Aid Board provides legal services to applicants for asylum, subsidiary protection and leave to remain under the International Protection Act 2015 which came into force at the end of 2016. That Act seeks to streamline the procedure for applicants so that as much as possible all aspects are dealt with at the same time rather than sequentially as theretofore. An initial decision is...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Haulage Industry Cabotage Regulations (26 Jul 2017)

Charles Flanagan: The Deputy will be aware that I have no direct role in the enforcement of Road Traffic legislation, which is an operational matter for the Garda Commissioner. I am advised that the enforcement of cabotage legislation is a matter for An Garda Síochána and the Road Safety Authority. I am informed by the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport that the enforcement authorities are...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Penalty Points System Data (26 Jul 2017)

Charles Flanagan: I understand from the response provided by the Tánaiste to Parliamentary Question No. 138 of 21 March 2017 that insofar as conviction statistics are concerned, the Courts Service is not in a position to match the prosecutions specified in the Deputy's question to court results. It follows that it is similarly not possible to ascertain the number of driver licence numbers recorded for...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Data (26 Jul 2017)

Charles Flanagan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 470 and 500 together. As the Deputies will appreciate, the Garda Commissioner is responsible for the distribution of resources among the various Garda Divisions and Districts and I, as Minister, have no direct role in the matter. I am assured by the Commissioner that personnel assigned throughout the country, together with the overall policing...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Tribunals of Inquiry Establishment (26 Jul 2017)

Charles Flanagan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 471 to 487, inclusive, together. The Disclosures Tribunal was appointed following the passing of Resolutions by this House and Seanad Éireann on 16 February 2017. Those resolutions require the Tribunal to report to the Clerk of Dáil Éireann with its findings and recommendations. Therefore, I do not propose to say or do anything which could be...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Operations (26 Jul 2017)

Charles Flanagan: I refer the Deputy to the response to Question No. 132 of 21 March 2017 and to previous questions which set out the position in respect of this matter. The position in this regard has not changed. The Deputy will appreciate, of course, that the sale of the barracks to which he refers which was completed in March 2004 was a matter for the Minister for Defence at that time.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (26 Jul 2017)

Charles Flanagan: I am advised by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) of my Department that the visa application referred to has been processed. The application was refused on 17 July, 2017, and the applicant has been advised of the reasons for the decision. Queries in relation to the status of individual immigration cases may be made directly to the INIS of my Department by e-mail using...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Courts Service (26 Jul 2017)

Charles Flanagan: As the Deputy will be aware, under the provisions of the Courts Service Act 1998, management of the courts, including the provision of accommodation for court sittings, is the responsibility of the Courts Service, which is independent in exercising its functions. However, in order to be of assistance to the Deputy, I have had enquiries made and the Courts Service has informed me that...