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Written Answers — Residency Permits: Residency Permits (9 Jun 2009)

Dermot Ahern: The permission of the person concerned to remain in the State under the revised arrangements for non-EEA parents of children born in Ireland prior to 1st January 2005, known as the IBC/05 Scheme, has been renewed until 2 November 2010. This permission to remain only comes into effect following registration with the Garda National Immigration Bureau. I have arranged for officials within my...

Written Answers — Residency Permits: Residency Permits (9 Jun 2009)

Dermot Ahern: The Deputy should note that the person concerned is the daughter and not the wife of the other person referred to in the additional information accompanying his Question. The person concerned was initially included as a child dependant on her father's asylum application which was lodged on 16 April 2003. However, her status in this State was complicated by a subsequent custody battle between...

Written Answers — Residency Permits: Residency Permits (9 Jun 2009)

Dermot Ahern: I refer the Deputy to Parliamentary Question No. 170 of Thursday, 13 November 2008, and the written Reply to that Question. The person concerned applied for asylum on 14 July 2003. His application was refused following consideration of his case by the Office of the Refugee Applications Commissioner and, on appeal, the Refugee Appeals Tribunal. Subsequently, in accordance with Section 3 of...

Written Answers — Residency Permits: Residency Permits (9 Jun 2009)

Dermot Ahern: The permission of the person concerned to remain in the State under the revised arrangements for non-EEU parents of children born in Ireland prior to 1st January 2005, known as the IBC/05 Scheme, has been renewed until 10 August 2010. This permission to remain only comes into effect following registration with the Garda National Immigration Bureau.

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (9 Jun 2009)

Dermot Ahern: I would refer the Deputy to the details contained in my reply to Parliamentary Question No. 143 of 5th February 2009. The amount spent by my Department so far in 2009 is in the region of €18,000. Given the large number of agencies and associated bodies attached to my Department, which include the Courts Service, An Garda Síochána, the Irish Prisons Service, as well as more than twenty...

Written Answers — Road Safety: Road Safety (9 Jun 2009)

Dermot Ahern: I propose to take Questions Nos. 398 and 399 together. The emphasis of Garda speed enforcement is on the use of mobile speed cameras, and their capacity in this area has been substantially enhanced recently. In September, 2008 the Garda Commissioner and I launched eight new Garda mobile speed detection vehicles. These state of the art vehicles represent a substantial upgrading of the...

Written Answers — Departmental Inquiries: Departmental Inquiries (9 Jun 2009)

Dermot Ahern: The report was laid before the Dáil on 5 December 2000. The provisions of the Courts of Justice (District Court) Act 1946 under which this inquiry took place specify that the Judge who conducted the inquiry shall report the result to the Minister upon conclusion of the investigation or inquiry. There was no requirement for a Dáil debate and Judge Murphy's report dealt fully with the...

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (9 Jun 2009)

Dermot Ahern: My Department incurred the following bank charges over the last three years: 2006 - €28,341; 2007 - €57,384; 2008 - €64,147. These charges arose in the normal course of the Department's operations across a range of different areas, including the processing of Immigration VISA applications.

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (9 Jun 2009)

Dermot Ahern: As a matter of general practice, my Department does not purchase individual bottles of water. The practice is to use a filtered system, via the mains water supply, or in the alternative, fresh water dispensers. The cost of supplying water via these dispensers, which incidentally, are being phased out in favour of the filtered system, has varied between approximately €16,000 to €21,000...

Written Answers — Sex Offender Treatment Programme: Sex Offender Treatment Programme (9 Jun 2009)

Dermot Ahern: I propose to take Questions Nos. 403 to 405, inclusive, together. The Deputy will be aware that on 22 April 2009 I announced a new policy on the management of sex offenders in prison. The new policy document is available on the website of the Irish Prison Service (www.irishprisons.ie). The policy is aimed at bringing about changes in offenders' lives that reduce risk of re-offending and...

Written Answers — Citizenship Applications: Citizenship Applications (9 Jun 2009)

Dermot Ahern: I am pleased to inform the Deputy that I have approved the application for a certificate of naturalisation from the person in question and an approval letter informing the applicant of same issued on 27 May 2009.

Written Answers — Citizenship Applications: Citizenship Applications (9 Jun 2009)

Dermot Ahern: I have been informed by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service that the person referred to by the Deputy has been resident in the State since 2001 and failed to re-register with the Garda National Immigration Bureau during that period as required under section 4 and 5 of the Immigration Act of 2004 . I have further been informed by them that he has not made an application to...

Written Answers — Garda Stations: Garda Stations (9 Jun 2009)

Dermot Ahern: I have requested this information from the Garda authorities and I will contact the Deputy when it is to hand.

Written Answers — Citizenship Applications: Citizenship Applications (9 Jun 2009)

Dermot Ahern: In a reply to recent correspondence from the Immigrant Council of Ireland I outlined the following: The Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act, 1956, as amended provides that the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform may, in his absolute discretion, grant an application for a certificate of naturalisation, provided certain statutory conditions are fulfilled. In less than one per cent...

Written Answers — Residency Permits: Residency Permits (9 Jun 2009)

Dermot Ahern: An application for long-term residency by the person referred to by the Deputy was made on 18/11/2008. Officials in the Long-Term Residency section of my Department have advised me that applications from September 2007 are currently being dealt with. As soon as a decision is made on the case, the person concerned will be notified.

Confidence in Government: Motion (resumed) (10 Jun 2009)

Dermot Ahern: I join my colleague in participating in this debate. There is no doubt as to my confidence in this Government. As my colleague has said, just two years ago the people of Ireland, in the only poll relevant as to who runs this country, looked at the alternatives, and stark alternatives they were. It is accepted, even by the most ardent and objective observer, that the people chose,...

Confidence in Government: Motion (resumed) (10 Jun 2009)

Dermot Ahern: The parties opposite seek to run our country like "The X-Factor", changing Governments with every local opinion poll, telephone poll or even text poll. We will see through our five year mandate. We do not change our party leader because of the latest poll, as the party opposite did, very unfairly, a number of years ago.

Confidence in Government: Motion (resumed) (10 Jun 2009)

Dermot Ahern: It got rid of a very good man, former Deputy John Bruton, because of an opinion poll, and it rues the day. We will not run away from tough decisions. In the area of crime, I have an unprecedented agenda, as has been seen in recent times. I have issued some 10 Bills on gangland crime, surveillance and gun control. I call on the party opposite to publically support the initiative I have...

Confidence in Government: Motion (resumed) (10 Jun 2009)

Dermot Ahern: I will give the Deputy the figures. There have been 3,500 extra gardaí recruited in the last four years, 7,000 teachers and 11,000 nurses and doctors. If we squandered the boom in that respect, then we are guilty.

Confidence in Government: Motion (resumed) (10 Jun 2009)

Dermot Ahern: We gave the largest social welfare increases in the history of the State. I remind the Deputies opposite that the last time their party was in Government, the famous Proinsias De Rossa, who received a very good vote recently-----