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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Staff Data (20 Jun 2017)

Charles Flanagan: The Policing Division of my Department comprises an Assistant Secretary and, at the present date, 5 Principal Officer and 8 Assistant Principal posts together with relevant staff. The areas comprising the Division are: Garda Industrial Relations Section, Garda Síochána Section, Governance and Accountability Section, and Policing Authority Section. The Policing Authority Section...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Tribunals of Inquiry Establishment (20 Jun 2017)

Charles Flanagan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 762 to 778, inclusive, together. As the Deputy will be aware, I established the Disclosures Tribunal following the passing of Resolutions by Dáil Éireann and Seanad Éireann on 16 February 2017. As the Deputy will also be aware it is the Garda Commissioner who has statutory responsibility to carry on and manage and control generally the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prisoner Transfers (20 Jun 2017)

Charles Flanagan: The Deputy will appreciate that I am not in a position to comment on individual prisoner matters. I will however advise the Deputy that when considering prisoners for sentence management decisions such as transfers, temporary release, transfer to Open Centres and other concessions, my officials in the Irish Prison Service consider a wide range of issues, as outlined in my response to PQ 114...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda College (20 Jun 2017)

Charles Flanagan: As the Deputy will appreciate, the Garda Commissioner is responsible for the distribution of resources, and I as Minister, have no direct role in the matter. I am assured by the Commissioner that Garda personnel assigned throughout the country, together with the overall policing arrangements and operational strategies are continually monitored and reviewed. Such monitoring ensures that...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Emergency Planning (20 Jun 2017)

Charles Flanagan: The current assessment of the threat here is that while a terrorist attack here is possible, it is unlikely and there is no specific information in relation to any threat to Ireland from international terrorism. The level of threat is kept under constant and active review by the Garda Authorities. The House will understand the detail of security arrangements that are in place should not...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Status (20 Jun 2017)

Charles Flanagan: The position is as stated in the response to the Deputy's Parliamentary Question No. 105 of 23 May 2017. I am advised by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) of my Department that there is no record of a current application for a certificate of naturalisation from persons with the family name referred to by the Deputy. A determination on whether an applicant satisfies...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Contracts Data (20 Jun 2017)

Charles Flanagan: The information requested by the Deputy could not be compiled in the time available. I will write to the Deputy directly when the information is available.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Contracts Data (20 Jun 2017)

Charles Flanagan: As the Deputy will be aware, the detailed allocation of Garda resources, including the procurement of ICT products and services, is a matter for the Garda Commissioner, and I as Minister, have no role in the matter. However, I have been informed by the Commissioner that the specific information requested is as outlined in the following table. Title of Goods/Services Contract Awarded...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Information and Communications Technology (20 Jun 2017)

Charles Flanagan: As the Deputy will be aware, the detailed allocation of Garda resources, including the procurement of ICT products and services, is a matter for the Garda Commissioner, and I as Minister, have no role in the matter. I have, however, been informed by the Commissioner that there was one tender for the design, development and support of a website published by An Garda Síochána on...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Information and Communications Technology (20 Jun 2017)

Charles Flanagan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 786 to 790, inclusive, together. As the Deputy will be aware, the detailed allocation of Garda resources, including the procurement of ICT products and services, is a matter for the Garda Commissioner, and I as Minister, have no role in the matter. I have asked the Garda Commissioner for the specific information requested and when it is to hand I will inform...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Coroners Service (20 Jun 2017)

Charles Flanagan: The legislation governing how coroners operate is the Coroners Act, 1962. Under this legislation a coroner is a statutory officer exercising quasi-judicial functions, in relation to which he or she is independent. The coroner is responsible for the scheduling and conduct of inquests in his or her district. There may be a number of factors which give rise to delays in the completion of the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Emergency Planning (20 Jun 2017)

Charles Flanagan: The Deputy will appreciate that it is generally not the practice to disclose the detail of the security arrangements that are in place to deal with threats to the State, including the threat from international terrorism. However, I want to assure the Deputy and the House that, contrary to what can only be described as unhelpful recent public commentary, the Garda and Defence Forces...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Refugee Status Applications (20 Jun 2017)

Charles Flanagan: The International Protection Act, 2015, was commenced on 31 December 2016. Under the Act, a new single application procedure was introduced under which all aspects of a person's claim (asylum, subsidiary protection and permission to remain) are considered together by the International Protection Office (IPO) rather than sequentially as heretofore. The IPO replaced the Office of the Refugee...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Data (20 Jun 2017)

Charles Flanagan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 794 to 796, inclusive, and 888 together. I have requested the specific information sought by the Deputy from the Garda authorities and will contact the Deputy directly on receipt of a Garda report. While An Garda Síochána has been testing Irish drivers for drugs, with the assistance of the Medical Bureau of Road Safety (MBRS), since 1999,...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Proposed Legislation (20 Jun 2017)

Charles Flanagan: As the Deputy will know, maintenance is the giving of financial assistance or encouragement to a party to litigation by a person who has neither an interest in the litigation nor any motive recognised by the law as justifying interference and champerty is an aggravated form of maintenance as it involves the support of litigation by a non-party in return for a share of the proceeds. The...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Expenditure (20 Jun 2017)

Charles Flanagan: I can confirm that my department has not engaged the services of the company referred to by the Deputy during the period January 2011 to date. In respect of bodies operating under the aegis of my department, I am informed that the Legal Aid Board paid €20,584.71 in 2013 to the company referred to by the Deputy for consultancy on a research project.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Applications (20 Jun 2017)

Charles Flanagan: I have been informed by the Irish Naturalisation & Immigration Service (INIS) of my Department that the person concerned is currently registered in the State under Stamp 3 conditions. INIS has no record of an application being received from this person requesting a change of status on family dependency grounds to a Stamp 4. Queries on the status of individual immigration cases may be...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Drugs Seizures (20 Jun 2017)

Charles Flanagan: I wish to advise the Deputy that the information requested is not available from An Garda Síochána at this time. However, I will provide the information as soon as I receive the report from the Garda authorities on the matter raised and will write to the Deputy again.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Applications (20 Jun 2017)

Charles Flanagan: I am informed by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) of my Department that the persons concerned made applications for a residence card, under the provisions of the European Communities (Free Movement of Persons) Regulations 2015, on 29 January 2016. I am further informed that these applications are currently under consideration at INIS. It is anticipated that decisions...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Vetting of Personnel (20 Jun 2017)

Charles Flanagan: I am advised by the Garda Authorities that in accordance with the provisions of section 12 of the National Vetting Bureau (Children and Vulnerable Persons) Act 2012-2016 it is a matter for a relevant organisation, in this case the HSE, entering into a contract for services for relevant work to secure vetting disclosures.