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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Applications (2 Dec 2014)

Frances Fitzgerald: I am advised by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) of my Department that, an issue has arisen in relation to identity documentation submitted by the person concerned with their application for a certificate of naturalisation.The person concerned was requested to forward her original passport in order for it to be authenticated. Upon receipt, the documentation was...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Firearms Licences (2 Dec 2014)

Frances Fitzgerald: I propose to take Questions Nos. 344 and 346 together. I take it the Deputy is referring to the following passages from my Department's recently published Review of Firearms Licensing report: "An Garda Síochána recorded 2,198 incidents involving a firearm between 2009 and February 2014. An Garda Síochána have also advised that between 2009 and 2013 there were 96...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Firearms Licences (2 Dec 2014)

Frances Fitzgerald: The Deputy will appreciate that firearms legislation provides for an appeal to the District Court where a firearms licence has been refused by An Garda Síochána. In addition, there have been a number of judicial review cases in this area in the context of persons whose applications for firearms licences have been refused. The licensing of firearms is a Garda operational matter and...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Firearms Licences (2 Dec 2014)

Frances Fitzgerald: I have asked the Garda Commissioner for a report on this matter based on the details supplied and will write to the Deputy when it becomes available.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (2 Dec 2014)

Frances Fitzgerald: I am advised by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) of my Department that a valid application for a certificate of naturalisation has been received from the person referred to by the Deputy. As the Deputy will appreciate, the granting of Irish citizenship through naturalisation is a privilege and an honour which confers certain rights and entitlements not only within the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Applications (2 Dec 2014)

Frances Fitzgerald: As the Deputy is aware from previous answers to questions of this nature, if the person concerned has made an application for asylum or subsidiary protection, it is not the practice to comment on such applications for so long as they remain in the protection process. The Deputy will recall that the reasons for this policy were fully explained in my letter to him dated 31 May, 2014.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Costs (2 Dec 2014)

Frances Fitzgerald: The expenditure in this subhead relates to payments in respect of compensation and legal costs made to prisoners, staff and members of the public. It can be difficult to predict the requirement in this subhead as the quantum and timing of payments depends on the progress of cases being dealt with through the States Claims Agency and Criminal Injuries Compensation Tribunal. In 2014, it is...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Expenditure (2 Dec 2014)

Frances Fitzgerald: The expenditure in this subhead relates to communications and other operational equipment used by An Garda Síochána including in relation to Road Traffic and CCTV systems. The additional €15.7 million requirement in the subhead arises as a result of a technical accounting exercise whereby certain receipts from fixed charge notices are being used to offset the cost of the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Expenditure (2 Dec 2014)

Frances Fitzgerald: The expenditure in question relates to the annual cost of the unitary charge for the Criminal Courts of Justice Complex in Parkgate Street, Dublin 8 which was put in place through a Public Private Partnership (PPP) arrangement.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Abuse in Hospitals (2 Dec 2014)

Frances Fitzgerald: While my Department is familiar with the background to this case based on correspondence with my predecessor, I have not received a request from the person concerned for a meeting nor has she been in contact with me. I understand that the concerns raised in previous correspondence were brought to the attention of the Garda authorities whose role is to investigate allegations of criminality....

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Applications (2 Dec 2014)

Frances Fitzgerald: As the Deputy will appreciate, as well as being a significant event in the life of its recipient, the granting of Irish citizenship through naturalisation as provided for in law is also a major step for the State which confers certain rights and entitlements not only within the State but also at European Union level and it is important that appropriate procedures are in place to preserve the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Programme (2 Dec 2014)

Frances Fitzgerald: I have no plans to introduce legislation that would have the effect of amending liability for maintenance of roads and footpaths from ordinary negligence to gross negligence. The liability of a public authority for failure to maintain public roads, which is governed by common law, distinguishes appropriately between non-feasance, where no action was taken, and misfeasance, where negligent...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Appointments to State Boards (2 Dec 2014)

Frances Fitzgerald: In order to be of assistance to the Deputy I have interpreted his question as encompassing all bodies called Boards, irrespective of their functions, as well as other bodies with a governance remit whose title does not include the term “Board”. National Disability Authority Thirteen appointments were made to the National Disability Authority (NDA) board in 2014. Expressions...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Proposed Legislation (3 Dec 2014)

Frances Fitzgerald: I expect to publish the Children and Family Relationships Bill before the end of the current Dáil session. As the Deputy is aware the Children and Family Relationships Bill is at present included in the published Government Legislation Programme for the Autumn Session 2014 as an "A list" Bill which specifies that the Bill is expected to be published in the period up to the beginning of...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Station Closures (3 Dec 2014)

Frances Fitzgerald: The formulation of proposals in relation to the opening and closing of Garda stations is a matter, in the first instance, for the Garda Commissioner in the context of her annual policing plans, as provided for in section 22 of the Garda Síochána Act 2005. The station referred to by the Deputy was one of a number of stations where closure was proposed by the Commissioner in the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Proposed Legislation (3 Dec 2014)

Frances Fitzgerald: On 27 November, I published the General Scheme of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill. The General Scheme includes wide ranging provisions to enhance the protection of children and vulnerable persons from sexual abuse and exploitation. When enacted, the Bill will facilitate full compliance with the criminal law provisions of a number of EU, UN and Council of Europe legal instruments....

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Misconduct Allegations (3 Dec 2014)

Frances Fitzgerald: The matter to which the Deputy refers is amongst complaints 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: Prisoner Data (3 Dec 2014)

Frances Fitzgerald: I can inform the Deputy that the names of the four prisoners convicted of homicide offences who failed to return to prison following temporary release during the period 1 January 2009 to 7 November 2014 were identified to An Garda Síochána. An Garda Síochána are informed by the Irish Prison Service when prisoners become unlawfully at large and they have the power to...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Road Traffic Offences (3 Dec 2014)

Frances Fitzgerald: The Deputy will appreciate that I have no direct role in the administration of fixed charge notices issued for road traffic offences which is an operational matter for An Garda Síochána. I understand, however, that where the registered owner of a vehicle was not driving the vehicle at the time of the alleged road traffic offence, that person must complete the 'Nomination of Name...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Funding (4 Dec 2014)

Frances Fitzgerald: Cosc, the National Office for Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based violence, received the funding allocations detailed in the tabular statement for the years 2007-2014. These allocations are inclusive of pay and other costs associated with the office and have not been disaggregated for domestic violence services only in the time available. The Commission for the Support of Victims of Crime has...