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Written Answers — Visa Applications: Visa Applications (1 Mar 2005)

Michael McDowell: The visa application in question was to enable the wife of a non-EEA national employed under the employment permit scheme to reside with him in the State. A worker employed under the employment permit scheme may be joined by his or her spouse and minor children after the worker has been in the State for one year and has been offered a contract for a further year. The worker must also be able...

Written Answers — Garda Deployment: Garda Deployment (1 Mar 2005)

Michael McDowell: The Deputy will appreciate that correspondence received by the Garda Commissioner is a matter for the Commissioner's office and not my Department. I am however aware that the content of this correspondence refers to the policing arrangements in place for Dalymount Park and as I informed the House in Question No. 420 of 15 February 2005 policing arrangements for public events and in locations...

Written Answers — Registration of Title: Registration of Title (1 Mar 2005)

Michael McDowell: I am informed by the Registrar of Titles that there is no record of an application pending on these folios at present. If the Deputy can provide me with the date of lodgement of the application and a Land Registry reference number I will make further enquiries on his behalf. I am further informed that an application concerning, inter alia, the two folios referred to by the Deputy was lodged...

Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (1 Mar 2005)

Michael McDowell: I understand that an application for capital grant assistance under the Equal Opportunities Childcare Programme 2000-2006 was submitted by the group in question to my Department some time ago. The programme is a seven year development programme which aims to increase the availability and quality of childcare to support parents in employment, education and training. As the Deputy may be aware,...

Written Answers — Citizenship Applications: Citizenship Applications (1 Mar 2005)

Michael McDowell: The applicant in question can apply for a certificate of naturalisation. On the basis of the information supplied I am not in a position to advise further on this matter. Further information and the necessary application forms may be obtained from my Department's website www.justice.ie, or by telephoning the citizenship section helpline on Lo-call telephone No. 1890 551500 on Tuesdays or...

Written Answers — Garda Equipment: Garda Equipment (1 Mar 2005)

Michael McDowell: I propose to take Questions Nos. 318 and 330 together. A working group on speed cameras chaired by my Department and consisting of representatives of the Garda Síochána, the Department of Transport and the National Roads Authority is currently examining how the provision, operation and processing of the output of speed cameras would operate, including how camera sites will be chosen. Work...

Written Answers — Coroners Service: Coroners Service (1 Mar 2005)

Michael McDowell: Data from inquiries and inquests regarding fatal road traffic accidents is already available under current systems of work of coroners. I am conscious, however, that there is scope for better collation and dissemination of information by coroners so that it is available for researchers, among others. I can confirm that the organisation and structure of the Coroners Service is being considered...

Written Answers — Registration of Title: Registration of Title (1 Mar 2005)

Michael McDowell: I am informed by the Registrar of Titles that these are two applications for first registration which were lodged on 8 May 2003. Dealing Nos. D2003CK009404Q and D2003CK009411P refer to these applications. I am further informed that these applications were completed on 10 January 2005.

Written Answers — Residency Permits: Residency Permits (1 Mar 2005)

Michael McDowell: The person in question made an application for permission to remain in the State on the basis of being part of a family unit where the parents of that unit have been granted residency. The application was received in October 2004. Applications of this type are dealt with in chronological order and those received in July 2004 are currently being processed.

Written Answers — Visa Applications: Visa Applications (1 Mar 2005)

Michael McDowell: I am informed by the visa section of my Department that this application was refused on 5 February 2005. In assessing any visa application, the visa officer will consider various matters, including whether it is reasonable in all the circumstances to conclude that the applicant would fully honour the conditions of the visa, for example, it is unlikely that the applicant would overstay the...

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (1 Mar 2005)

Michael McDowell: Council Regulation (EC) No. 2201/2003 concerning jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in matrimonial matters and the matters of parental responsibility, repealing Regulation (EC) No. 1347/2000, which applies as from today 1 March 2005 does not provide any new measures in relation to divorce. The regulation restates the provisions on divorce which were contained in...

Written Answers — Residency Permits: Residency Permits (1 Mar 2005)

Michael McDowell: The revised arrangements which I have introduced for the making of applications for permission to remain on the basis of the parentage of a child born in Ireland prior to 1 January 2005 apply only in cases where the parents are and have been resident in the State since the birth of the child. The arrangements do not apply in respect of parents who are not resident in the State. A separate...

Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (1 Mar 2005)

Michael McDowell: I propose to take Questions Nos. 325 and 331 together. As the Deputies may be aware the equal opportunities childcare programme, EOCP, provides grant assistance towards the staffing costs of community based not-for-profit childcare services which have a clear focus on disadvantage. Funding under the staffing measure of the EOCP is only made available to help support the staffing costs of...

Written Answers — Visa Requirements: Visa Requirements (1 Mar 2005)

Michael McDowell: It is well established in the case law of our Supreme Court that the right of a State to control the entry of non-nationals is a fundamental expression of national sovereignty which has been universally recognised from the earliest times. These are fundamental rights of the State itself as well as fundamental rights of the individual citizen. Notwithstanding the foregoing there is, as there...

Written Answers — Crime Prevention: Crime Prevention (1 Mar 2005)

Michael McDowell: I have been informed by the Garda authorities that, in combating crimes with a racial motive, the Garda Commissioner approved the appointment of 145 ethnic liaison officers nationwide. The Garda racial and intercultural office provides training to the ethnic liaison officers. I understand that this is done in conjunction with leaders of ethnic minority groups and provides a good base for the...

Written Answers — Garda Operations: Garda Operations (1 Mar 2005)

Michael McDowell: I am informed by the Garda authorities that, as part of an ongoing criminal investigation into suspected money laundering activity, a number of properties in the southern Garda region were searched in recent weeks in accordance with law. I am further informed that the home of the person in question was searched by the Garda Síochána but that no property of the kind described by the Deputy...

Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (1 Mar 2005)

Michael McDowell: The programme for Government and the progress of my Department's equal opportunities childcare programme are confirmation of the Government's commitment to developing and reviewing childcare services and to keeping childcare at the front of its social agenda. The Government is making considerable progress in increasing the supply of centre-based child care places and in enhancing the...

Written Answers — Citizenship Applications: Citizenship Applications (1 Mar 2005)

Michael McDowell: An application for a certificate of naturalisation was received from the person referred to by the Deputy in March 2003. The application was submitted to me for a decision in January 2005 and I decided not to grant a certificate of naturalisation in that instance. Section 15 of the Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act 1956, as amended, provides that an applicant for naturalisation must have...

Northern Ireland Issues: Motion (Resumed). (2 Mar 2005)

Michael McDowell: The killing of Robert McCartney was by any standards, as Deputy Kirk has said, a cruel and horrific murder perpetrated by a gang of brutal cowards. That this was done to an innocent victim is bad enough, but that his family and loved ones have been forced to take on themselves an immensely brave, public struggle to bring the perpetrators to justice, compounds the naked evil of his murder....

Child Care Services. (2 Mar 2005)

Michael McDowell: I thank Deputy Breeda Moynihan-Cronin for affording me the opportunity to update the House again on this issue. I understand that the matter was also raised on the Order of Business. The equal opportunities child care programme is the Government's key response to the need to develop child care to help to support the needs of parents, with a particular emphasis on those who may be in...