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Written Answers — Residency Permits: Residency Permits (26 Jun 2007)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: The position in relation to granting long term residency is as follows: Persons who have been legally resident in the State for over five years on the basis of work permit/work authorisation/work visa conditions may apply to the Immigration Division of my Department for a five year residency extension. In that context they may also apply to be exempt from employment permit requirements. The...

Written Answers — Garda Investigations: Garda Investigations (26 Jun 2007)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: I am informed by the Garda authorities that the investigation into the death of the person referred to is ongoing. To date a number of persons have been arrested and questioned in relation to this incident. When the Garda authorities have completed their investigation an investigation file will be submitted to the Law Officers. As this is an ongoing Garda investigation it would be...

Written Answers — Citizenship Applications: Citizenship Applications (26 Jun 2007)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: The Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act, 1956, as amended, provides that the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform may, in his absolute discretion, grant an application for a certificate of naturalisation provided certain statutory conditions are fulfilled. These conditions are that the applicant must— be of full age, or by the way of exception, be a minor born in the State be of...

Written Answers — Visa Applications: Visa Applications (26 Jun 2007)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: The application referred to by the Deputy was received in the Visa Office, Dublin on 30th April, 2007. The decision of the Visa Officer to refuse this application was taken on 8th May, 2007. The application was refused because the Visa Officer could not be satisfied, on the basis of the documentation supplied, that a relationship had been in existence between the applicant and the reference...

Written Answers — Visa Applications: Visa Applications (26 Jun 2007)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: The application referred to by the Deputy was received in the Visa Office, Dublin on 12th January, 2007. I am pleased to inform the Deputy that the visa application was approved after appeal on 28th February, 2007.

Written Answers — Deportation Orders: Deportation Orders (26 Jun 2007)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: I propose to take Questions Nos. 644 and 724 together. The applicants instituted Judicial Review proceedings on 8 February 2006 challenging the Deportation Orders made in respect of them on 15 September 2005. These proceedings were determined on 18 April 2007 and reliefs sought were refused by the High Court. Subsequent to these proceedings additional information submitted by the applicants...

Written Answers — Public Order Offences: Public Order Offences (26 Jun 2007)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: Following the submission in 2004 of a report and recommendations by an expert group on crime statistics, it was decided that the compilation and publication of crime statistics should be taken over by the Central Statistics Office, as the national statistical agency, from the Garda Síochána. The Garda Síochána Act, 2005 consequently makes provision for this and the CSO has established a...

Written Answers — Closed Circuit Television Systems: Closed Circuit Television Systems (26 Jun 2007)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: I am informed by the Garda authorities that Mullingar is one of the towns included in the Garda Town Centre CCTV programme. Mullingar is in a group of nine locations for which a tender process is now underway. Depending on the conclusion of the tender process it is anticipated that installation of the system will be substantially completed this year. An important development with regard to...

Written Answers — Missing Persons: Missing Persons (26 Jun 2007)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: I am informed that funding to support the operation of a missing persons helpline is being considered by Commission for the Support of Victims of Crime, on foot of an application by Missing in Ireland Support Services (MISS). The Commission, established in March 2005 with a three year remit, was given two main functions: to distribute funding for organisations that give support to victims of...

Written Answers — Visa Applications: Visa Applications (26 Jun 2007)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: The application referred to by the Deputy was received in the Visa Office in Dublin on 7th June, 2007. The decision of the Visa Officer to refuse this application was taken on 14th June, 2007. The application was refused because the Visa Officer could not be satisfied, on the basis of the documentation supplied, that the applicant had demonstrated a sufficient obligation to return home...

Written Answers — Departmental Correspondence: Departmental Correspondence (26 Jun 2007)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: I refer the Deputy to Parliamentary Questions No. 148 of Thursday, 5 April, 2007 and No. 84 of Thursday, 1 February, 2007 and the written replies to those Questions. The position is unchanged.

Written Answers — Residency Permits: Residency Permits (26 Jun 2007)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: I am informed by the Immigration Division of my Department that the person in question made a Family Reunification application in March 2006. This application is under consideration by my Department and a decision will issue in due course. At the present time Family Reunification applications are taking approximately 15-18 months to process.

Written Answers — Residency Permits: Residency Permits (26 Jun 2007)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: The person in question submitted an application on 27th March, 2007 for renewal of permission to remain in the State based on their parentage of their Irish born child. However, as the individual concerned was not granted permission to remain in the State under the terms of the original IBC 05 scheme, the application was returned on 27th March, 2007.

Written Answers — Residency Permits: Residency Permits (26 Jun 2007)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: The applicants' permission to remain expired on 31 May 2007. Their immigration status will be reconsidered by the General Immigration Division of my Department on the submission of details of their current circumstances.

Written Answers — Residency Permits: Residency Permits (26 Jun 2007)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: The Immigration Division of my Department has recently written to the person concerned requesting documentation in relation to her request for an extension of permission to remain in the State. The application will be further processed upon receipt of these documents.

Written Answers — Residency Permits: Residency Permits (26 Jun 2007)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: I refer the Deputy to Parliamentary Questions No. 486 of Wednesday, 31 January, 2007 and No. 176 of Thursday, 9 February, 2006 and the written replies to those Questions. The position is unchanged.

Written Answers — Residency Permits: Residency Permits (26 Jun 2007)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: I propose to take Questions Nos. 655 and 656 together. I am informed by Immigration Division of my Department that they have written to the person in question instructing him to report to the Garda National Immigration Bureau to have his permission to remain renewed.

Written Answers — Travel Document Applications: Travel Document Applications (26 Jun 2007)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: The person referred to made an application for a temporary Travel Document in order to travel and obtain their own national passport. The application is currently under consideration and the Naturalisation and Immigration Service of my Department will contact the person in question shortly.

Written Answers — Residency Permits: Residency Permits (26 Jun 2007)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: I refer the Deputy to Parliamentary Questions No. 108 of Thursday, 1 March, 2007, No. 107 of Thursday, 22 February, 2007, No. 329 of Wednesday, 27 September, 2006 and No. 702 of Tuesday, 25 April, 2006 and the written replies to those Questions. The position is unchanged.

Written Answers — Citizenship Applications: Citizenship Applications (26 Jun 2007)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: Applications for certificates of naturalisation from the persons in question were received in the Citizenship section of my Department of 4 January 2007. Officials in that Section are currently processing applications received in the latter half of 2004 and have approximately 11,700 applications on hand to be dealt with before those of the persons concerned. These are generally dealt with...