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Debt Settlement and Mortgage Resolution Office Bill 2011: Second Stage (18 Oct 2011)

Alan Shatter: It is only right that members of the party that previously dominated Government in this State for 14 years seek to make a contribution to assist the Government in resolving the appalling difficulties confronting so many people, which are causing enormous pain and hardship both to them and to their families.

Written Answers — Departmental Bodies: Departmental Bodies (18 Oct 2011)

Alan Shatter: Following consideration of the relative merits of mergers involving the two bodies named, along with the Irish Human Rights Commission and the Equality Tribunal, the Government recently decided that the Human Rights and Equality agendas would best be enhanced by merging the Equality Authority and the Irish Human Rights Commission. I anticipate that the new Human Rights and Equality...

Written Answers — Housing Market: Housing Market (18 Oct 2011)

Alan Shatter: The Programme for Government contains a commitment to improve the quality of information available on the Irish housing market by requiring that the selling price of all dwellings be recorded in a publicly available national housing price database. I intend to give effect to this commitment by assigning statutory responsibility for publishing details of residential property sales prices to...

Written Answers — Garda Vetting: Garda Vetting (18 Oct 2011)

Alan Shatter: The Garda Central Vetting Unit (GCVU) provides employment vetting for a large number of organisations registered with the Garda for this purpose and which employ persons in a full-time, part-time, voluntary or training capacity to positions where they would have substantial, unsupervised access to children and/or vulnerable adults. On 27 July, I published the Scheme of a National Vetting...

Written Answers — Child Protection: Child Protection (18 Oct 2011)

Alan Shatter: The term cyberbullying refers to bullying carried out using the internet, mobile phones or other technological devices. Cyberbullying is a complex issue which transcends the home or school environment. Cyberbullying generally takes a psychological rather than physical form but is often part of a wider pattern of "traditional" bullying. Specifically in relation to social networking websites,...

Written Answers — Rights of Way: Rights of Way (18 Oct 2011)

Alan Shatter: The position is that Parts 12 and 13 of the recently-enacted Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2011, which contain amendments to the Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Act 2009 and the Registration of Title Act 1964 respectively, amend the law relating to the acquisition of easements, including rights of way, by prescription. The amendments permit the Property Registration Authority...

Written Answers — Road Traffic Offences: Road Traffic Offences (18 Oct 2011)

Alan Shatter: 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 An Garda Síochána. The Garda Síochána Act 2005 consequently makes provision for this and the CSO has established a...

Written Answers — Road Traffic Offences: Road Traffic Offences (18 Oct 2011)

Alan Shatter: 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 An Garda Síochána. The Garda Síochána Act 2005 consequently makes provision for this and the CSO has established a...

Written Answers — Citizenship Applications: Citizenship Applications (18 Oct 2011)

Alan Shatter: With reference to the further information provided by the Deputy, I am advised by the Citizenship Division of the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) that an application for a certificate of naturalisation was received from the person concerned in September 2011. The application is currently being processed with a view to establishing whether the applicant meets the statutory...

Written Answers — Road Traffic Offences: Road Traffic Offences (18 Oct 2011)

Alan Shatter: In November, 2009 a contract was concluded for the provision of an outsourced safety camera network to An Garda Síochána. The objective of the network is to reduce the number of speed related collisions and so save lives, as excessive or inappropriate speeding is a major factor in road traffic collisions and fatalities. I am informed by the Garda authorities that, in preparation for the...

Written Answers — Road Traffic Offences: Road Traffic Offences (18 Oct 2011)

Alan Shatter: I have requested a report from the Garda authorities in relation to the matter referred to by the Deputy. I will contact the Deputy again when the report is to hand.

Written Answers — Liquor Licensing Laws: Liquor Licensing Laws (18 Oct 2011)

Alan Shatter: The Chairperson of Responsible Retailing of Alcohol in Ireland (RRAI), Mr Padraic White, submitted the 3rd Compliance Report on the Implementation of the Code of Practice on the Display and Sale of Alcohol in Mixed Trading Premises on 30 September. The Code does not apply to specialist off-licences. Arrangements are currently being made to publish that Report on my Department's website. I...

Written Answers — Certification of Documents: Certification of Documents (18 Oct 2011)

Alan Shatter: Documentation submitted to my Department to attest to an individual's identity and nationality is retained on file until the relevant case has had a definitive outcome. My Department will supply a photo-copy of such documentation on request. However, my Department cannot certify such documentation as being authentic as it cannot be certain of its provenance.

Written Answers — Prison Accommodation: Prison Accommodation (18 Oct 2011)

Alan Shatter: I am informed by the Irish Prison Service that there were 830 prisoners in custody on 12 October 2011 who did not have access to 24-hour in-cell sanitation. Of that number, 555 prisoners were in multiple-occupancy cells. Unfortunately, this issue cannot be resolved overnight. However, I can assure the Deputy that the Government is committed to the elimination of slopping out in all prisons...

Written Answers — Youth Projects: Youth Projects (18 Oct 2011)

Alan Shatter: The project in question is one of a hundred Garda Youth Diversion Projects nationwide. The projects are community-based, multi-agency crime prevention initiatives which seek to divert young people who have been involved in criminal and/or anti-social behaviour or who are at serious risk of such behaviour. The projects, which are funded by the Irish Youth Justice Service and delivered in...

Written Answers — Property Services Regulation: Property Services Regulation (18 Oct 2011)

Alan Shatter: The position is that the Property Services (Regulation) Bill 2009, which is currently awaiting Dail Committee Stage, provides for establishment of the Property Services Regulatory Authority to control and supervise providers of property services, including auctioneers, and to improve standards in the provision of those services. The proposed statutory powers of the new Authority include: -...

Written Answers — Garda Vetting: Garda Vetting (18 Oct 2011)

Alan Shatter: Garda vetting certificates are issued to specified registered organisations in respect of a particular post or employment in response to a written request and with the permission of the person who is the subject of that request. Decisions on the suitability for the recruitment/engagement of the person concerned rest at all times with the recruiting organisation. The Garda Vetting...

Written Answers — Illegal Immigrants: Illegal Immigrants (18 Oct 2011)

Alan Shatter: By definition, it is not possible to estimate accurately the number and source of illegal immigrants in any jurisdiction. Ireland is no different in this regard as by its very nature illegal immigration is clandestine and covert. Any estimate of the number involved would be conjecture. In keeping with practice elsewhere, illegal immigrants are likely to have entered the State by legal means...

Written Answers — Road Traffic Offences: Road Traffic Offences (18 Oct 2011)

Alan Shatter: Under the provisions of the Courts Service Act 1998, the management and administration of the courts, including responsibility for maintaining and publishing court statistics, is a function of the Courts Service. However, in order to be of assistance to the Deputy, I have had inquiries made and, while the Courts Service has informed me that it is not possible to provide statistics solely...

Written Answers — Human Rights Issues: Human Rights Issues (18 Oct 2011)

Alan Shatter: In the Stakeholder Summary Report, reference is made to a submission by Equality for Fathers Ireland (EFI) which stated that, contrary to section 6 of the Guardianship of Infants Act 1964 conferring joint guardianship to the mother and the father of a child, fathers were generally discriminated against, notably following separation or divorce. EFI recommended that wherever consent was deemed...