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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (23 Oct 2014)

Frances Fitzgerald: The question of residency status does not arise in the case of the person whose details were supplied. If the person has made an application for asylum or subsidiary protection, the Deputy will be aware that it is not the practice to comment on such applications for so long as they remain in the protection process.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (23 Oct 2014)

Frances Fitzgerald: The question of residency status does not currently arise in the case of the person whose details were supplied. If the person or another member of the person's family has made an application for asylum or subsidiary protection, the Deputy will be aware that it is not the practice to comment on such applications for so long as they remain in the protection process. In any case where...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Applications (23 Oct 2014)

Frances Fitzgerald: I am informed by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) that there is no current application for family reunification from the person referred to by the Deputy. Information on the family reunification applications process is available on the website of the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service of my Department . The Deputy may wish to note that queries in relation...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (23 Oct 2014)

Frances Fitzgerald: I am advised by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) of my Department that an application was received on 18 August 2014 on behalf of the person mentioned by the Deputy. The person concerned is now 21 years of age and claims that they have now lived in the State for 13 years. However, they were never registered nor ever applied to be registered in the State until now. This...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Applications (23 Oct 2014)

Frances Fitzgerald: If the person whose details were supplied has made an application for asylum or subsidiary protection, the Deputy will be aware that it is not the practice to comment on such applications for so long as they remain in the protection process. I am informed by an Garda Síochána that they are aware of the other matter referred to in the details supplied by the Deputy and have met...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (23 Oct 2014)

Frances Fitzgerald: I can inform the Deputy that no such payments are made to any staff in my Department and that there are no semi-state companies under the remit of my Department. The Performance-related Awards Scheme, which applied to staff at Assistant Secretary, Deputy Secretary and equivalent grades in the Civil and Public Service, was abolished in 2009.

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Victim Support Services (23 Oct 2014)

Frances Fitzgerald: I thank Senator Mullen for putting down this important topic. It gives me the opportunity to address the Seanad on victims' rights. I wish to reaffirm my commitment, which I have articulated on several occasions recently in other fora, to have the EU directive on victims' rights implemented in Ireland next year. This is a priority for me. It is an important directive which will have many...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Proposed Legislation (4 Nov 2014)

Frances Fitzgerald: I propose to take Questions Nos. 494 and 496 together. The position is that section 2 of the Landlord and Tenant (Ground Rents) Act 1978 introduced a prohibition on the creation of new leases reserving ground rents on dwellings. As regards existing ground rents, Part III of the Landlord and Tenant (Ground Rents) (No.2) Act 1978 contains a statutory scheme whereby a person may, at...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Constitutional Convention Recommendations (4 Nov 2014)

Frances Fitzgerald: The Government has undertaken to look at the question of the most appropriate wording to be presented to the people arising from the recommendations in the Second Report of the Convention on the Constitution in relation to amending the language in Article 41.2 on the role of women in the home. It has also undertaken to look at the feasibility of including the principle of gender equality as...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Recruitment (4 Nov 2014)

Frances Fitzgerald: The Deputy will be aware that I recently announced a further intake of 200 recruits into the Garda College, Templemore. The intake will be in two batches, one later this year (late November / early December) and the second in January 2015. This will bring to 300 the number of recruits in the Garda College and is a measure of this Government's commitment to ensure that recruitment to An...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Criminal Law (4 Nov 2014)

Frances Fitzgerald: The fact that a person who has committed an offence in Ireland is from another jurisdiction will not prevent a court, when sentencing the person, from imposing the sanction it considers appropriate in all the circumstances of the case, subject to the maximum penalty provided in law for the offence concerned. An offender who is subject to a community service order will be required to reside...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (4 Nov 2014)

Frances Fitzgerald: I have no plans to extend the deadline for the commencement of the reforms to the international education sector and student immigration system which I announced on 2 September in conjunction with my colleague, the Minister for Education and Skills, Ms. Jan O'Sullivan, TD. From 1 January 2015, non-EEA national students coming to study in Ireland can only receive an immigration permission to...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Public Order Offences (4 Nov 2014)

Frances Fitzgerald: The law on begging is set out in the Public Order Act 2011. The Act defines begging as requesting or soliciting money or goods other than in accordance with a licence, permit or authorisation. Section 2 of the Act provides that it is an offence while begging in any place to harass, intimidate, assault or threaten any other person or persons, or obstruct the passage of persons or vehicles....

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Investigations (4 Nov 2014)

Frances Fitzgerald: The Deputy's Question arises in the context of the recent allegations of the rape and sexual abuse of a young woman, and her subsequent mistreatment at the hands of members of Sinn Féin and the Provisional IRA. It is obviously a very difficult story to tell and she has taken a brave, public stance in telling it. It is a pity that those who have questions to answer in relation to her...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (4 Nov 2014)

Frances Fitzgerald: I am advised by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) of my Department that the person in question was issued with a letter granting them permission to remain in the State on 15 October 2014. This permission will now regularise this person's former illegal status in the State. His case will be reviewed upon the expiration of this initial permission. Queries in relation...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Data (4 Nov 2014)

Frances Fitzgerald: I am informed by the Garda authorities that the PULSE system is upgraded periodically to support the introduction of new offences and changes to existing offences. These technical upgrades require a very short period of downtime and are carried out using well-proven processes designed to avoid impacting upon Garda operations. The next such upgrade is planned before the end of this year.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Resources (4 Nov 2014)

Frances Fitzgerald: As the Deputy will appreciate, it is the Garda Commissioner who is responsible for the distribution of personnel among the Garda Regions, Divisions and Districts. Garda management keep this distribution under continuing review in the context of crime trends and policing priorities so as to ensure that the best possible use is made of these resources. This necessary ongoing flexibility in...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Investigations (4 Nov 2014)

Frances Fitzgerald: The complaint to which the Deputy refers is amongst those being considered under the mechanism established for the independent review of certain allegations of Garda misconduct, or inadequacies in the investigation of certain allegations, which have been made to me as Minister for Justice and Equality, or the Taoiseach, with a view to determining to what extent and in what manner further...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (4 Nov 2014)

Frances Fitzgerald: The first meeting of the Working Group to report to Government on improvements to the protection process, including direct provision and supports to asylum seekers, will take place on Monday 10 November 2014. I will be in attendance at that meeting and look forward to the work of the Group getting underway. [As the Deputy will be aware the establishment of the Group arises from the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Ministerial Meetings (4 Nov 2014)

Frances Fitzgerald: I can confirm to the Deputy that I have arranged to meet representatives of the Sex Workers Alliance of Ireland. An appointment was made on 24 October and is scheduled to take place shortly. My Department has sought the views of all sides of the debate concerning the future direction of prostitution legislation. In June 2012, my Department published a discussion document on the future...