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Written Answers — Citizenship Applications: Citizenship Applications (22 May 2008)

Dermot Ahern: An application for a certificate of naturalisation from the person referred to in the Deputy's Question was received in the Citizenship Section of my Department in August 2007. Officials in that Section are currently processing applications received in late 2005 and have approximately 12,600 applications on hand to be dealt with before that of the person concerned. These are generally dealt...

Written Answers — Citizenship Applications: Citizenship Applications (22 May 2008)

Dermot Ahern: An application for a certificate of naturalisation from the person referred to in the Deputy's Question was received in the Citizenship Section of my Department in January 2008. The person concerned was issued with an acknowledgement of receipt of her application on 28 January 2008. This letter was re-issued on 19 May 2008. I refer the Deputy to the reply to Parliamentary Question 507 of 8...

Written Answers — Prisoner Transfers: Prisoner Transfers (22 May 2008)

Dermot Ahern: I am informed that a total of 77 prisoners transferred from Cork Prison to Shelton Abbey during the time period from 17 December, 2007 to 19 May, 2008. The prisoners concerned were deemed suitable for transfer to an open centre having, in each case, taken into account a wide range of factors including the nature of their offence, length of sentence, engagement with the therapeutic services...

Written Answers — Citizenship Applications: Citizenship Applications (22 May 2008)

Dermot Ahern: An application for a certificate of naturalisation from the person referred to in the Deputy's Question was received in the Citizenship Section of my Department in May 2007. Officials in that Section are currently processing applications received in late 2005 and have approximately 10,700 applications on hand to be dealt with before that of the person concerned. These are generally dealt...

Written Answers — Visa Applications: Visa Applications (22 May 2008)

Dermot Ahern: I refer the Deputy to my answer to Parliamentary Question No. 313 of the 20 February 2008. My Department has no record of a subsequent application from the person concerned. It is open to the applicant to make a fresh application at any point.

Written Answers — Residency Permits: Residency Permits (22 May 2008)

Dermot Ahern: I have been informed by the Immigration Division of my Department that the person referred to in the Deputy's question arrived in the State on foot of a study visa. If she wishes to continue to reside in the State to study on expiry of her current permission to remain in September 2008, she should go to her local immigration officer, with details of her course and payment of fees in order to...

Written Answers — Citizenship Applications: Citizenship Applications (22 May 2008)

Dermot Ahern: An application for a certificate of naturalisation from the person referred to in the Deputy's Question was received in the Citizenship section of my Department in June 2006. Officials in that section inform me the processing of the application is near completion and the file will be forwarded to me for a decision in the near future. I will inform the Deputy and the person concerned when I...

Written Answers — Residency Permits: Residency Permits (22 May 2008)

Dermot Ahern: The person in question will need to apply for a re-entry visa prior to their departure from the State. Comprehensive information on making a re-entry visa application is available on the website of the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service at www.inis.gov.ie.

Prison Building Programme: Motion (27 May 2008)

Dermot Ahern: I move: That Dáil Éireann, noting: that the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, having considered the need for a new prison in the Dublin area, has decided to proceed with the development of a prison in the District Electoral Division of Kilsallaghan, in the County of Fingal; that the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform has caused the documents specified in section...

Prison Building Programme: Motion (27 May 2008)

Dermot Ahern: It was done quite recently, within the last week or so. Moving from the background documentation to the proposed resolution, which is to be considered by the joint committee, the resolution is the consent required for the prison development at Thornton Hall to proceed. It is, in layman's terms, the planning permission for the prison. It follows the format prescribed by section 26 of the...

Prison Building Programme: Motion (27 May 2008)

Dermot Ahern: I thank Members for their comments. Any criticisms they made were in regard to the prior system which revolved around Mountjoy, a prison built in the 1850s where it is impossible to run a 21st century prison service that is fair to everyone, not just staff, but prisoners and families. It is impossible to run that type of service from Mountjoy prison. The whole reason for the new prison is...

Prison Building Programme: Motion (27 May 2008)

Dermot Ahern: ——and can be completely segregated from male prisoners.

Prison Building Programme: Motion (27 May 2008)

Dermot Ahern: The prison building programme will deliver approximately 450 additional spaces by 2009. This will address the capacity until the planned facilities at Thornton and Kilworth become available. I could give details but, perhaps, I will do that on Committee Stage. In regard to the PPP arrangement, some Members have likened it to the PPP arrangement for the regeneration of Dublin city centre and...

Prison Building Programme: Motion (27 May 2008)

Dermot Ahern: The procedure to select the site for the new provision has been an open and transparent process and the matter was fully examined by the Comptroller and Auditor General.

Prison Building Programme: Motion (27 May 2008)

Dermot Ahern: The technology to inhibit the use of mobile phones is currently nearing completion in the midlands prison. It will then be evaluated and rolled-out across the prison estate. Prison numbers in the State have increased. At one stage the numbers were artificially low because of the revolving door mechanism. This Government and previous Governments, of which I have been a member, have...

Prison Building Programme: Referral to Joint Committee (27 May 2008)

Dermot Ahern: I move: That the proposal that Dáil Éireann approves the development of a prison in the District Electoral Division of Kilsallaghan in the County of Fingal in respect of which copies of documents as specified in section 26(2) of the Prisons Act 2007 (No. 10 of 2007) were laid before Dáil Éireann on 14th May, 2008, be referred to the Joint Committee on Justice, Equality, Defence and...

Written Answers — Missing Persons: Missing Persons (27 May 2008)

Dermot Ahern: Members of An Garda Síochána who have been appointed as Immigration Officers conduct immigration control duties at approved ports of entry in respect of persons entering the State in compliance with the relevant immigration legislation. Immigration controls are not routinely undertaken in respect of persons who are exiting the State. However, from time to time, in the course of particular...

Written Answers — Residency Permits: Residency Permits (27 May 2008)

Dermot Ahern: The wife of the person referred to by the Deputy was admitted to the State in November 2004 as a programme refugee. The person in question is the subject of a Family Reunification application made by his wife in April 2006. This application will be considered by my Department and a decision will issue in due course.

Written Answers — Residency Permits: Residency Permits (27 May 2008)

Dermot Ahern: The person concerned arrived in the State on 18 February 2001 with his father and was included under his application for asylum in the State. However, he was taken into the care of the Health Service Executive in 2003 and subsequently applied for asylum in his own right on 8 March 2006. His application was refused following consideration of his case by the Office of the Refugee Applications...

Written Answers — Garda Operations: Garda Operations (27 May 2008)

Dermot Ahern: The reason a member of An Garda Síochána seizes a passport varies depending on the circumstances under which the passport comes into their possession, e.g. on suspicion that a breach of the criminal law has been committed; for the purpose of deportation, etc. Section 12 of the Immigration Act 2004 places an obligation on non-nationals to produce to a member of An Garda Síochána, on...