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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Applications (22 Jan 2015)

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. The position in this regard is in accordance with Section 19 of the Refugee Act 1996 (as amended) which provides for the protection of the identity of...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (22 Jan 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: I am advised by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) of my Department that, in response to a notification pursuant to the provisions of Section 3 of the Immigration Act 1999 (as amended), the person concerned has submitted written representations. These representations, together with all other information and documentation on file, will be fully considered, under Section 3...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (22 Jan 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: I am advised by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) of my Department that the person concerned has applied for a right of residency in the State, accompanied by a right to work, based on their parentage of an Irish citizen child. While the person concerned has submitted some of the required documentation, other items of documentation remain outstanding. Foremost among the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (22 Jan 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: I am advised by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) of my Department that the couple mentioned have permission to be in the State until 11/12/2015 and 16/12/2015 respectively. Queries in relation to the status of individual immigration cases may be made directly to the INIS by e-mail using the Oireachtas Mail facility which has been specifically established for this...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Applications (22 Jan 2015)

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. Processing of the application is well advanced and the case will be submitted to me for decision in due course. The Deputy may wish to note that queries in relation to the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Deportation Orders (22 Jan 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: I am informed by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) of my Department that the person referred to is the subject of a Deportation Order and therefore has no entitlement to residency in the State. Representations were received from the person's legal representative, pursuant to Section 3 (11) of the Immigration Act 1999 (as amended), to revoke the Deportation Order. The...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (22 Jan 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: I am advised by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) of my Department that the person concerned is the subject of a Deportation Order made on 5 August 2014. This Deportation Order was made following a detailed examination of the representations he submitted for consideration under Section 3 of the Immigration Act 1999 (as amended). The Deputy might wish to note that the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Applications (22 Jan 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: I am informed by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) of my Department that immigration permission was granted to this person on 03 November 2014 and they were registered with the Garda National Immigration Bureau on foot of this on 02 December 2014. Queries in relation to the status of individual immigration cases may be made directly to the INIS by e-mail using the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Applications (22 Jan 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: The person concerned was informed on 13 October 2014 of my intention to grant his application for a certificate of naturalisation. The required documentation has recently been received and the person concerned will be invited in due course to attend the next available citizenship ceremony, at which he will make a declaration of fidelity to the Irish Nation and loyalty to the State and receive...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Family Reunification Applications (22 Jan 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: I have been informed by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service of my Department that correspondence was received on 15th December 2014 from the person referred to by the Deputy in respect of an application for Family Reunification. A letter issued on 2nd January 2015 from my Department requesting further information. No reply has been received to date. Queries in relation to the...

Topical Issue Debate: Garda Investigations (27 Jan 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: I thank Deputy Martin for raising this matter. I share his concern about the shocking allegations of sexual assault in 2006 and that what has been reported in the media is properly addressed. I can only agree with what he said about the report and the photographs. Like him, I have a profound abhorrence for sexual and domestic violence in all its manifestations and I have worked in many...

Topical Issue Debate: Garda Investigations (27 Jan 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: I thank the Deputy again for raising this most important matter. The timeframe provisions can be waived by GSOC where it is a matter of particular public interest, and I can also refer a case to GSOC. I will bear that in mind when I get the full report. The Deputy has described the injuries and, unfortunately, victims of domestic and sexual violence suffer horrific injuries. That is the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Community Alert Programme (27 Jan 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: Community Alert groups are key partners in relation to the Garda Text Alert Scheme, which was launched in September 2013 and was piloted initially in a number of locations in cooperation with Muintir na Tíre, Neighbourhood Watch, the Irish Farmers Association and related stakeholders. It provides a further mechanism for Gardaí to provide crime prevention information to community...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries (27 Jan 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: The Government is committed to full implementation of the Quirke Report. Significant progress has been made on the implementation of the Magdalen Scheme. To date, a decision has been made on 87% of the applications received and 498 applicants have received their lump sum at a cost of over €18m. Judge Quirke recommended that the women should have access to an enhanced medical card....

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Programme (27 Jan 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: I refer to my responses to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 352 of 16 December 2014 and 1,355 of 14 January 2015. As I indicated in those responses, the reason that the General Scheme requires the assisted reproduction treatment to be carried out in a clinical setting is because there is very clear case-law on the situation of a donor father where the treatment takes place outside a clinical...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Certificates (27 Jan 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: I am informed by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) of my Department that the situation remains as set out in my reply to the Deputy's Parliamentary Question of 10 July 2014 in relation to the person concerned. To-date, the person concerned has still not submitted a valid Australian national passport to allow for their application for residency in the State, arising from...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Programme (27 Jan 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: It is not clear from the Deputy's question what the nature or purpose of the threats to which he refers are. There are already a number of provisions in the Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person Act, 1997, which address the question of threats of violence and in serious cases they can attract penalties up to 10 years imprisonment. There are also relevant provisions in the Criminal...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Deportation Orders (27 Jan 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: I propose to take Questions Nos. 290 and 291 together. In enforcing the law in respect of deportations, Ireland is no different to other countries who also remove individuals who have no lawful right to remain within their territory. Ireland, like other EU member states, uses deportation of illegal immigrants and failed asylum seekers as the policy of last resort. The process leading to a...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Security (27 Jan 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: I wish to advise the Deputy that the Canine Unit remains in place at Wheatfield Prison and is fully staffed. Training of drug detection teams is ongoing with one course just completed and another course to be commenced in February. We envisage to have all training complete and to have passive teams fully operational by the end of May 2015. Having assessed the position in relation to the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (27 Jan 2015)

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, who currently has permission to reside in the State until 6 May, 2015. The application is being processed with a view to establishing whether the applicant meets the statutory...