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Written Answers — Asylum Applications: Asylum Applications (14 Oct 2008)

Dermot Ahern: The person concerned applied for asylum on 12 November 2004. His application was refused following consideration of his case by the Office of the Refugee Applications Commissioner and, on appeal, the Refugee Appeals Tribunal. Subsequently, in accordance with Section 3 of the Immigration Act, 1999 (as amended), the person concerned was informed, by letter dated 21 September 2005, that the...

Written Answers — Residency Permits: Residency Permits (14 Oct 2008)

Dermot Ahern: I am not aware of any mislaid residency permit in the past five years. If the Deputy has details of any person who feels their application may have been mislaid he should relay that information to me. I will then arrange for INIS (Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service) to make direct contact with him in the matter.

Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2008)

Dermot Ahern: The Deputies speak out of both sides of their mouths.

Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2008)

Dermot Ahern: The Deputies are speaking out of both sides of their mouths.

Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2008)

Dermot Ahern: Deputy Reilly should keep quiet. I will show him what he said in 2001.

Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2008)

Dermot Ahern: Deputy Reilly fought this. He is a hypocrite. He threatened to strike.

Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2008)

Dermot Ahern: Thank God he has to run for that side of the House.

Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2008)

Dermot Ahern: Deputy Quinn was part of it too.

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (15 Oct 2008)

Dermot Ahern: The Deputies opposite would do well on "The Muppet Show".

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (15 Oct 2008)

Dermot Ahern: Did Deputy Bannon agree to take a wage cut?

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (15 Oct 2008)

Dermot Ahern: Did the Deputy carry his own bag?

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (15 Oct 2008)

Dermot Ahern: The Deputy is out of touch.

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (15 Oct 2008)

Dermot Ahern: It is hard to listen to Deputy Ó Caoláin. I read in the newspapers recently that Sinn Féin has €250 million stashed away in US banks. That has not been denied, so I suppose it is true. Perhaps the Deputy and his party could give us a bit of a hand and repatriate some of that money.

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (15 Oct 2008)

Dermot Ahern: I could not believe my ears when listening to Deputy Flanagan earlier. He said that we need additional resources in the area of justice. At the time I had in front of me the pre-budget document Fine Gael published. On page 19 the party advocated freezing the voted Exchequer current spending for 2009 at 2008 levels, and then looked for 3% savings in every Department. How could we deal with...

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (15 Oct 2008)

Dermot Ahern: As the Minister for Finance has underlined, there has been substantial investment in public services over the past ten years. This has made possible the very real improvements which have occurred in communities throughout the country. In facing up to the changed fiscal circumstances, we should not lose sight of the strong base from which we are operating. The range and depth of our public...

Financial Resolution No. 15: (General) Resumed (15 Oct 2008)

Dermot Ahern: Deputy Bruton is in here every day calling for less spending, yet his colleagues are now calling for more spending. They are talking out of both sides of their mouths. They are hypocrites.

Written Answers — Road Traffic Offences: Road Traffic Offences (15 Oct 2008)

Dermot Ahern: The Garda Síochána Act 2005 makes provision for the compilation and publication of crime statistics by the Central Statistics Office, as the national statistical agency, and the CSO has established a dedicated unit for this purpose. I have requested the CSO to provide the statistics sought by the Deputy directly to him.

Written Answers — Property Services Regulation: Property Services Regulation (15 Oct 2008)

Dermot Ahern: Details regarding establishment of the Property Services Regulatory Authority will be available shortly on publication of the Property Services (Regulation) Bill in this Session.

Written Answers — Criminal Law Codification: Criminal Law Codification (15 Oct 2008)

Dermot Ahern: The Criminal Law Codification Advisory Committee was established on 1 February 2007 under Part 14 of the Criminal Justice Act 2006 to oversee the development of a programme for the codification of the criminal law. It is chaired by Professor Finbarr McAuley of the School of Law in UCD and consists of representatives of the judiciary, the legal profession, legal academia, the Department of...

Written Answers — Departmental Contracts: Departmental Contracts (15 Oct 2008)

Dermot Ahern: I wish to inform the Deputy that my Department has no record of having awarded contracts to the company concerned.