Results 5,601-5,620 of 16,537 for speaker:Brian Lenihan Jnr

Written Answers — Garda Recruitment: Garda Recruitment (2 Apr 2008)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: I am informed by the Garda Commissioner that an officer who transfers from the Irish Prison Service to An Garda Síochána is entitled to transfer all of his/her service for the purposes of the Garda Síochána Pension Scheme. The officer is not, however, entitled to carry across any salary entitlements from the Prison Service.

Written Answers — Stardust Inquiry: Stardust Inquiry (2 Apr 2008)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: I can inform the Deputy that, to date, €300,000 has been issued, of a total of €400,000 approved for the purpose of assisting the Stardust Victims' Committee to participate in the examination in question.

Written Answers — Departmental Transport: Departmental Transport (2 Apr 2008)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: I presume the Deputy's question does not relate to the helicopters in use by the Garda Air Support Unit for operational policing purposes. My Department availed of Aer Corps Helicopters for official purposes during the period in question. I understand that the Department of Defence is to provide the Deputy with details in this regard. I am also continuing to make enquiries to establish...

Written Answers — Crime Prevention: Crime Prevention (2 Apr 2008)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: I am informed by the Garda authorities that local Garda management is aware of two recent incidents at the premises concerned. A person has been arrested and charged in connection with these incidents and was remanded in custody by the Court. The Divisional Crime Prevention Officer has visited the premises concerned and has provided crime prevention and security advice to the proprietor....

Written Answers — Stardust Inquiry: Stardust Inquiry (2 Apr 2008)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: I can inform the Deputy that the concerns referred to are currently under consideration and that there is ongoing communication with the Committee representing the families and their legal advisors on these matters.

Written Answers — Asylum Applications: Asylum Applications (2 Apr 2008)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: The persons concerned applied for asylum in the State on 20th January 2005. Their applications were refused and deportation orders were made in respect of them on 23 November 2005. The applicants instituted judicial review proceedings on 13 January 2006 challenging the decision to make deportation orders in respect of them. The proceedings were determined on 30 January 2008 when the reliefs...

Written Answers — Criminal Prosecutions: Criminal Prosecutions (2 Apr 2008)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: I am informed by the Garda authorities that the attached tables provide the number of headline offences, recorded and detected in each Garda District in the Dublin Metropolitan Region in 2002. The figures for headline offences recorded and detected for each Garda Division in the State in 2002 are available in the relevant Garda Annual Report, a copy of which is available in the Oireachtas...

Written Answers — Criminal Prosecutions: Criminal Prosecutions (2 Apr 2008)

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 — Residency Permits: Residency Permits (2 Apr 2008)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: The person concerned arrived in the State on 4 August 2005 and applied for asylum on 11 August 2005. Owing to doubts as to the age of the person concerned at that time, she was initially assessed to be an adult but this position was revised following a review of the case by the Office of the Refugee Applications Commissioner and the Health Services Executive. As a result of this review, the...

Written Answers — Deportation Orders: Deportation Orders (2 Apr 2008)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: The persons concerned arrived in the State on 12th July, 2005 and applied for asylum. Their applications were refused and deportation orders were made in respect of them on 11th August, 2006. The Applicants instituted Judicial Review proceedings on 15th September, 2006 challenging the decision to make the deportation orders in respect of them. The applicants in question submitted an...

Written Answers — EU Directives: EU Directives (2 Apr 2008)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: I can inform the Deputy that my Department, in accordance with EU Directive 2000/84/EC, compiled and communicated submissions in respect of this issue to the European Commission from a number of relevant Departments and semi-state bodies in July, 2007. I can also advise the Deputy that there are no plans to change the present summer-time arrangements.

Twenty-eighth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2008: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 Apr 2008)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: I am very happy to have the opportunity to speak on this debate on the reform treaty. It is an important development in Europe and there are compelling reasons for Ireland to support it. My favourite definition of Europe has always been that of General de Gaulle, that Europe should extend from the Atlantic to the Urals. We have gone a long way in that direction since we became members of...

Twenty-eighth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2008: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 Apr 2008)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: I am surprised at the Deputy. Of course I am not suggesting that under this treaty we will go that far. However, I am making the point that we have gone a long way in that direction. Therefore it is important that we look at the European institutions to ascertain how they can be more efficient and responsive to their citizens and to the national parliaments in the member states. Throughout...

Twenty-eighth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2008: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 Apr 2008)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: However, Deputy Quinn was not a Member of the Oireachtas and was not as constrained as then Deputy Cruise O'Brien was at the time. Those who oppose the treaty and opposed previous treaties have a duty to explain what future they see for this country. They seem to be offering a march towards isolationism and economic decline — an Albanianisation of Ireland, so to speak. There is no doubt...

Twenty-eighth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2008: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 Apr 2008)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: That is extraordinary. I must say I have a great attachment to our ancestral language and speak it. It is very appropriate on some occasions but as far as Europe is concerned, it is a fact that the members of the European family are increasingly using English as their common language. I realise that the French tradition does not welcome that particular development but the reality is that...

Twenty-eighth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2008: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 Apr 2008)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: Yes.

Twenty-eighth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2008: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 Apr 2008)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: I could be even more heretical for a Fianna Fáil Deputy and confess that I have always had a secret admiration for Daniel O'Connell in this respect. He was a very good Irish speaker, by the way. He did not lose his Irish by speaking English but he did believe that English was the language of the world. It is certainly the language of the European world and that is something to which we...

Twenty-eighth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2008: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 Apr 2008)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: Both systems have their characteristic strengths and weaknesses. Both often arrive at the same conclusion in resolving a particular legal dispute but both use different characteristic procedures and substantive legal rules to arrive at the conclusion and that is why there is a difficulty in this area. We must understand that we have a great deal to learn from civil law jurisdictions as they...

Written Answers — Appointments to State Boards: Appointments to State Boards (3 Apr 2008)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: I have outlined in tabular form the information requested by the Deputy. Name of Board/ Body/ Committee. Names of current Board Members that were appointed between 3/7/07 — 3/4/08 Current vacancies on Board Anticipated vacancies to arise before 1/10/08 Criminal Injuries Compensation Tribunal Sinead Behan BL, Chair No current vacancies No vacancies anticipated Censorship of Publications...

Written Answers — Stardust Inquiry: Stardust Inquiry (3 Apr 2008)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: I can inform the Deputy that the Senior Counsel appointed to carry out the examination of the Stardust Victims' Committee's submission was selected from a short-list of candidates submitted to the Committee's legal team as being the preferred choice of that team.