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Written Answers — Asylum Applications: Asylum Applications (12 Oct 2010)

Alan Shatter: Question 358: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the number of applications for Irish citizenship by naturalisation approved between 1 July 2009 and 30 June 2010 in cases where the applicants had come to the adverse attention of a member of the Garda Síochána; if he will disaggregate the data by the applicants previous nationalities; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Cross-Border Projects: Cross-Border Projects (12 Oct 2010)

Alan Shatter: Question 365: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the nature of the cooperation he envisages between the forensic science services in this State and Northern Ireland; the areas in which there has been co-operation to date and the further initiatives, if any that arise following the trilateral meeting of Justice Ministers that took place on the 27 September 2010 in Dundalk [36360/10]

Written Answers — Cross-Border Projects: Cross-Border Projects (12 Oct 2010)

Alan Shatter: Question 366: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the new initiatives to be taken to tackle organised crime on a cooperative basis with the Northern Ireland Minister for Justice arising out of the trilateral meeting held in Dundalk on the 27 September 2010 [36361/10]

Written Answers — Cross-Border Projects: Cross-Border Projects (12 Oct 2010)

Alan Shatter: Question 367: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform if he will detail the new initiatives proposed or the action to be taken in relation to human trafficking as a consequence of the meeting that recently took place in Dundalk between the Northern Ireland Minister for Justice and the Scottish Cabinet Secretary for Justice [36364/10]

Written Answers — Human Rights Issues: Human Rights Issues (12 Oct 2010)

Alan Shatter: Question 376: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the fact that there has been a cut of 25% in the funding of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission; if the Commission has been prohibited from receiving funding from Atlantic Philanthropy; that there is growing concern that the Commission will be unable to discharge its functions in relation to...

Written Answers — Human Rights Issues: Human Rights Issues (12 Oct 2010)

Alan Shatter: Question 381: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will take an international initiative to have stoning condemned as a crime against humanity and to call on all states, including Iran, to end this medieval and barbaric punishment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36363/10]

Written Answers — Drugs Payment Scheme: Drugs Payment Scheme (13 Oct 2010)

Alan Shatter: Question 164: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason the average waiting time for the processing of drug payment scheme refunds is approximately nine months; the reason the Dublin health board areas have one full-time member of staff or two part-time members of staff dealing with all applications for refunds; if her attention has been drawn to the consequential negative...

Written Answers — Deportation Orders: Deportation Orders (13 Oct 2010)

Alan Shatter: Question 193: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the number of persons deported from the State in each of the past five years; the dates on which each deportation took place and the number of persons deported on those dates; the flight arrangements in each case in the context of the airline involved; the travel agency, if any, that made arrangements for the flights; in respect of...

Written Answers — Deportation Orders: Deportation Orders (13 Oct 2010)

Alan Shatter: Question 194: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the number of occasions in each of the past five years in which his Department or the Garda Síochána placed an advertisement seeking tenders from travel agencies or other persons for making necessary arrangements for the deportation from this State of illegal migrants; and to detail the current arrangements in place with regard...

Written Answers — Prisoner Releases: Prisoner Releases (13 Oct 2010)

Alan Shatter: Question 202: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 24 of 7 October 2010 (details supplied) if he will provide the date to which this figure relates [36831/10]

Order of Business (14 Oct 2010)

Alan Shatter: Sinn Féin is as economically illiterate as the Government-----

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Alan Shatter: ---- so they should both get together.

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Alan Shatter: They all live in an economic fantasy land.

Order of Business (14 Oct 2010)

Alan Shatter: I have two issues to raise. Under the Croke Park agreement, it was envisaged that various reforms would be introduced in the public service. From reports in the media it seems some Departments have brought forward a programme of suggested reforms as of the end of September but others have not. Is it intended to lay before the House the proposals from each Department so that they can be...

Order of Business (14 Oct 2010)

Alan Shatter: It is appropriate if it is something to be laid before the House. This is information that should be made available to all Members of this House in the lead-in to what is probably the most important budget in the history of the State. I would like the Tánaiste to clarify the position.

Order of Business (14 Oct 2010)

Alan Shatter: I have a further issue I would like to raise briefly after the Tánaiste has responded to my first query.

Order of Business (14 Oct 2010)

Alan Shatter: Does the Tánaiste not agree that these so-called departmental actions plans should be transparent-----

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Alan Shatter: -----and should be made available to Members of the House?

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Alan Shatter: This matter should be on the agenda of the House next week.

Order of Business (14 Oct 2010)

Alan Shatter: Action plans to make savings in public expenditure and to reform the public service are being completed by Departments. These should not be secret documents.