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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Forthcoming Justice and Home Affairs Council: Discussion with Minister for Justice and Equality (27 Nov 2012)

Alan Shatter: The European arrest warrant is of real benefit to every European state, including Ireland, in that it facilitates the transfer of people charged with very serious crimes, organised crime and terrorism from one European state to another with relative ease with all of the human rights protections in the context of court proceedings. There has been a difficulty whereby some member states...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Forthcoming Justice and Home Affairs Council: Discussion with Minister for Justice and Equality (27 Nov 2012)

Alan Shatter: Data protection legislation is substantially about protecting the privacy of individuals and ensuring, if I can put it this way, that human beings are not commoditised. When people access social media sites or individual websites to purchase a product or research holidays, one way in which this area is profitable is through the accumulation of information about the product, holiday, reading...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Forthcoming Justice and Home Affairs Council: Discussion with Minister for Justice and Equality (27 Nov 2012)

Alan Shatter: ----of that particular product. I am particularly conscious that Cork gets a manufacturing benefit from it so I would not want to say anything about the product itself.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Forthcoming Justice and Home Affairs Council: Discussion with Minister for Justice and Equality (27 Nov 2012)

Alan Shatter: What is being examined, and there is some controversy surrounding it, is the type of consent individuals should give for personal information to be used; the circumstances in which information put on the web can get lost - in other words, that it can be removed and not maintained; and the regulatory factors of registering with a data protection commissioner. At present if one is involved in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Forthcoming Justice and Home Affairs Council: Discussion with Minister for Justice and Equality (27 Nov 2012)

Alan Shatter: We will not necessarily be sending a ship to Somalia. What is being examined is whether we would send members of the Naval Service to perhaps engage with others who are there. I do not know whether it will occur but it is being explored. With regard to the drugs strategy, the Commission will make a presentation at the meeting I mentioned, which will begin on 6 December, on the strategy to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Forthcoming Justice and Home Affairs Council: Discussion with Minister for Justice and Equality (27 Nov 2012)

Alan Shatter: Certainly we can consider that proposal.

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2012
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Supplementary)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Supplementary) (27 Nov 2012)

Alan Shatter: I apologise for the delay. I am afraid I was engaged in dealing with other matters. I thank the committee for making time available today to consider my request for a Supplementary Estimate for the Garda Síochána and Courts Service Votes. I am pleased that on this occasion there is no requirement for additional funding from outside the justice Vote group. In effect, therefore,...

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2012
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Supplementary)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Supplementary) (27 Nov 2012)

Alan Shatter: I will deal with the issues in the order in which they were raised by Deputy Collins. The introduction of Garda rosters is a very substantial reform of the manner in which the gardaí deal with their day-to-day duties. I wish to reiterate my thanks to the two representative bodies of the Garda Síochána, the GRA and the AGSI, who have fully co-operated in the new rostering...

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2012
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Supplementary)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Supplementary) (27 Nov 2012)

Alan Shatter: One enjoys being an agent provocateur.

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2012
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Supplementary)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Supplementary) (27 Nov 2012)

Alan Shatter: The Courts Service has a range of properties and I do not have the rent figures for all of them. We will provide the Deputy with the information. With regard to early retirement, there is as much planning as can be done. It is genuinely impossible to predict how many members of the force will retire in any one year. There has been considerable variance year in, year out. All that can be...

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2012
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Supplementary)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Supplementary) (27 Nov 2012)

Alan Shatter: We will provide that too.

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2012
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Supplementary)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Supplementary) (27 Nov 2012)

Alan Shatter: I totally agree with Deputy Finian McGrath on community policing. It is part and parcel of what is being done by the force. It has a significant role in crime prevention, community relations and gardaí knowing how to divert young people who may be creating minor difficulties from going on to creating major difficulties or a life of crime. On the retirement issue, the legal position...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Child Protection (28 Nov 2012)

Alan Shatter: There are currently 4,836 persons seeking international protection residing in 35 Direct Provision accommodation centres across 17 counties under contract to the Reception & Integration Agency (RIA), an operational unit of the Irish Naturalisation & Immigration Service (INIS) of my Department. 1,825 of these residents - 38% - are children under the age of 18. RIA takes its child...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Registration of Title (28 Nov 2012)

Alan Shatter: I can inform the Deputy that the matters raised in the question are operational matters for the Property Registration Authority. Under the Registration of Deeds and Title Act 2006, the Property Registration Authority (PRA) was established on 4 November 2006. The PRA replaces the Registrar of Deeds and Titles as the registering authority in relation to property registration in Ireland and,...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Private Security Authority (28 Nov 2012)

Alan Shatter: The Private Security Authority (PSA), an independent agency under the remit of my Department, is the regulatory body with responsibility for regulating and licensing the private security industry in the State. The Private Security Services Act 2004 (as amended) sets out the activities in the private security industry which are, or will be, subject to licensing. The licensing of installers...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Seeker Accommodation (28 Nov 2012)

Alan Shatter: There are currently 4,836 persons seeking international protection residing in 35 asylum Direct Provision accommodation centres across 17 counties under contract to the Reception & Integration Agency (RIA), an operational unit of the Irish Naturalisation & Immigration Service (INIS) of my Department. In relation to the issue of space generally, including the sharing of bedrooms and...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (28 Nov 2012)

Alan Shatter: I am advised by the Citizenship Division of the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) that a valid application for a certificate of naturalisation was received from the person referred to by the Deputy in June, 2008. The application is currently being processed with a view to establishing whether the applicant meets the statutory conditions for the granting of naturalisation...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (28 Nov 2012)

Alan Shatter: An application for a certificate of naturalisation from the person concerned was received in the Citizenship Section of my Department in February, 2010. I considered the application in October, 2012 and decided to defer making a final decision in this case until October 2013. The person concerned was notified of this decision and the reason for it in a letter issued on 22 October, 2012. The...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Personal Insolvency Bill (28 Nov 2012)

Alan Shatter: It is my intention to bring forward amendments to the Personal Insolvency Bill 2012, during its passage through the Seanad, which will empower the Insolvency Service, once it is established, to draw up guidelines on reasonable living expenses for debtors for use in the context of the debt settlement mechanisms contained in the Bill. It will be a matter for the Director of the new Insolvency...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Investigations (28 Nov 2012)

Alan Shatter: On 2 August this year I received a report from the Garda Commissioner on the review carried out by An Garda Síochána arising from the incidents which took place at the concert in the Phoenix Park on Saturday 7 July. The full review contains extensive operational details and, in keeping with normal practice in these matters, it would not be appropriate to put these into the public...