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Written Answers — Departmental Bodies: Departmental Bodies (17 Jan 2012)

Alan Shatter: 1The Ethics in Public Office Acts 1995 and 2001 provide for the disclosure of interests by Office Holders, the Attorney General, members of the Houses of the Oireachtas, Special Advisers and holders of designated directorships and occupiers of designated positions in the civil service and the semi-state sector. Such designated posts are either included in the primary legislation or...

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (17 Jan 2012)

Alan Shatter: 1In general the lump sum and ongoing pension costs in respect of staff who retire from this Department and from organisations under the auspice of the Department are paid from the Superannuation and Allowances Vote of the Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform. However, the retirement lump sums and ongoing pension costs in relation to members of An Garda Síochána are paid...

Written Answers — Garda Stations: Garda Stations (17 Jan 2012)

Alan Shatter: 1I am advised by the Garda authorities that an expenditure of €2,200 was incurred by An Garda Síochána from the Garda Vote in respect of minor repair works to Loughglynn Garda station in 2010. I am further advised that the Office of Public Works has separately undertaken maintenance works at Loughglynn Garda station with a view to securing the overall fabric of the building, in the...

Written Answers — Animal Pounds: Animal Pounds (17 Jan 2012)

Alan Shatter: 1Under the Pounds (Provision and Maintenance) Act 1935 local authorities are required to provide pounds for the use of a County Registrar in exercising the function of Sheriff. The Deputy will appreciate that County Registrars are independent in the performance of their functions in this regard. However, I have had enquiries made and the Kilkenny County Registrar has not used the animal...

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (17 Jan 2012)

Alan Shatter: 1The total gross allocated budget for the Departments Vote (Vote 19 – Justice and Equality) in 2011 was €402.664 million. The provisional figure for gross expenditure is €400.403 million which does not include €460,000 in unspent capital expenditure carried forward to 2012 under the deferred capital provisions of the Finance Act 2004. In addition the budget for receipts...

Written Answers — Visa Applications: Visa Applications (17 Jan 2012)

Alan Shatter: 1I am informed by the Garda Authorities that a Police Certificate is issued for the information of Consular Authorities only and not for any other purpose. It is issued solely to show convictions, if any, recorded against the applicant. Subject to the provisions of Section 258 Children's Act, 2001, when completing a Police Certificate in respect of a person who has been found guilty of an...

Written Answers — Legislation on Prostitution: Legislation on Prostitution (17 Jan 2012)

Alan Shatter: 1As indicated by the Deputy, I announced in October my intention to arrange a consultation process to help inform the future direction of legislation on prostitution. I also stated at that time that I am concerned to ensure public debate on this issue is open to the widest possible audience. For that reason, a detailed discussion document to facilitate the consultation process is being...

Written Answers — Asylum Applications: Asylum Applications (17 Jan 2012)

Alan Shatter: 1The persons concerned are a husband and wife who entered the State on 10th September, 2004 and lodged separate asylum applications. Their asylum applications were considered by the Office of the Refugee Applications Commissioner and the Refugee Appeals Tribunal, both of whom concluded that the persons concerned did not meet the criteria for recognition as refugees. Arising from the refusal...

Written Answers — Homophobic Crime: Homophobic Crime (17 Jan 2012)

Alan Shatter: 1I am informed by the Garda authorities that An Garda Síochána attach importance to managing with sensitivity cases where members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) communities are victims of crime. Where appropriate, such a victim is referred to a trained LGBT Officer within An Garda Síochána. All victims of crimes, including those with a homophobic motivation, are...

Written Answers — Legal Services Regulation Bill: Legal Services Regulation Bill (17 Jan 2012)

Alan Shatter: 1The Deputy will be aware that the Second Stage debate in respect of the Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011 commenced in the House on 16 December 2011 and is soon to resume. The Bill represents a historical opportunity for modernisation and reform of the way legal services are provided in the State and of the antiquated and opaque legal costs regime. It sets out to achieve an appropriate...

Written Answers — Irish Prison Service: Irish Prison Service (17 Jan 2012)

Alan Shatter: 1I wish to inform the Deputy that it is not possible, in the time available, to provide a full breakdown of all the information sought. My Department is in the process of collating this information which will be forwarded to the Deputy as soon as possible. However, I have been informed by the Irish Prison Service that a Central Procurement Unit was established in March, 2007. There are...

Written Answers — Deportation Orders: Deportation Orders (17 Jan 2012)

Alan Shatter: 1I am satisfied that the applications made by the person concerned for asylum and subsidiary protection, as well as the representations made under Section 3 of the Immigration Act 1999 (as amended), together with all refoulement issues, were fairly and comprehensively examined and, as such, the decision to deport him is justified. However, if new information or circumstances have come to...

Written Answers — Prison Committals: Prison Committals (17 Jan 2012)

Alan Shatter: 1Details on the average cost of an available staffed prison space are published in the Irish Prison Service Annual Reports under three headings - Open Prisons, Closed Prisons and High Security Prisons. They are not published for individual prisons. Wheatfield Prison is a Closed Prison for which the average cost in 2010 (the latest year for which figures are available) was €71,447...

Written Answers — Prison Committals: Prison Committals (17 Jan 2012)

Alan Shatter: 2057In 2010, the Irish Prison Service recategorised the offence groups under which prisoners' convictions are recorded. Statistics are now compiled using the same groups as those used by An Garda Síochána, the Central Statistics Office, the Courts Service and the Probation Service. Details on persons committed to prison for non payment of court ordered fines for TV licence and road...

Written Answers — Citizenship Applications: Citizenship Applications (17 Jan 2012)

Alan Shatter: 1I am advised by the Citizenship Division of the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) that a valid application for a certificate of naturalisation was received from the person referred to by the Deputy in January, 2010. The application is currently being processed with a view to establishing whether the applicant meets the statutory conditions for the granting of naturalisation...

Written Answers — Public Order Offences: Public Order Offences (17 Jan 2012)

Alan Shatter: 2057Following 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...

Written Answers — International Agreements: International Agreements (17 Jan 2012)

Alan Shatter: 1I can inform the Deputy that since taking office I have signed the following Agreements with other Governments or foreign bodies: Memorandum of Understanding between Eolaíocht Fhóiréinseach Éireannach and Forensic Science Northern Ireland, 8 June 2011. Agreement between the Government of Ireland and the Government of the United States of America on Enhancing Cooperation in Preventing and...

Written Answers — Personal Debt: Personal Debt (17 Jan 2012)

Alan Shatter: 2057In line with a commitment in the Programme for Government, the Personal Insolvency Bill is in the course of being urgently developed in my Department to provide for a new framework for settlement and enforcement of debt and for personal insolvency. The commitment under the EU/IMF Programme of Financial Support for Ireland is to publish the Bill in Quarter 1 of 2012. The Heads of the Bill,...

Written Answers — Departmental Bodies: Departmental Bodies (17 Jan 2012)

Alan Shatter: 1The bodies under the aegis of my Department where board members and staff are required under the Ethics in Public Office Acts to complete annual returns to the Standards in Public Office Commission are the Civil Defence Board, the Army Pensions Board and the Board of Coiste an Asgard. The table below sets out the numbers of board members and staff required to complete forms under the Ethics...

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (17 Jan 2012)

Alan Shatter: It has not been possible in the time available to compile all of the information requested by the Deputy. The information will be forwarded to the Deputy as soon as possible.