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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (7 Oct 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: As the Deputy will appreciate, the Garda Commissioner is responsible for the distribution of personnel, including Community Gardaí, among the Garda Regions, Divisions, and Districts. Garda management keep this distribution under continual review in the context of crime trends and policing priorities so as to ensure that the best possible use is made of resources. I have been informed by...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Station Closures (7 Oct 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: The Garda District and Station Rationalisation Programme was implemented in An Garda Síochána during 2012 and 2013. The primary objective of the Programme was to identify opportunities to introduce strategic reforms to enhance service delivery, increase efficiency and streamline practices within the organisation. In its review of the Garda Station Network which informed the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Operations (7 Oct 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: As the Deputy is no doubt aware, an Garda Síochána is involved in the security and protection of explosives (which could include gelignite type explosives) while they are being transported, stored and/or utilised. An Garda Síochána do not however, as a matter of policy and security, disclose the nature of the procedures in place in this regard.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (7 Oct 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: I am advised by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) of my Department that correspondence has issued to the person concerned seeking clarification with regard to their educational qualifications in order to establish whether or not the person meets the qualifying criteria in order to be granted the particular immigration permission sought. On receipt of the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Staff Relocation (7 Oct 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: The Human Resources Division of my Department manage a very substantial number of requests for staff transfers both across my Department and other Civil Service Departments and Offices each year. There are a range of different reasons for such a transfer request, one of which is based on geographic location. In such instances staff can submit a formal request to Human Resources Division for...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Funding (8 Oct 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: As the Deputy will be aware, the Law Society is the professional body for solicitors and exercises statutory functions under the Solicitors Acts 1954 to 2013 in relation to the education, admission, enrolment, discipline and regulation of the solicitors' profession. In this capacity, the Law Society is not, as such, a directly State-funded organisation and levies fees on its own membership....

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (8 Oct 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: As the Deputy will appreciate, the Garda Commissioner is responsible for the distribution of personnel among the Garda Regions, Divisions, and Districts. Garda management keep this distribution under continual review in the context of crime trends and policing priorities so as to ensure that the best possible use is made of resources. I have been informed by the Garda Commissioner that...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Staff Redeployment (8 Oct 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: I can inform the Deputy that, in line with redeployment procedures provided for in the Public Service Agreement 2010-2014, 9 members of staff were redeployed from the Department of Agriculture, Food and Marine to my Department on the 1st July 2013. These staff were assigned to the Financial Shared Services Offices in Killarney, which was about to take responsibility for managing additional...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (8 Oct 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: I am advised by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) of my Department that there is no record of an application for a right of residency in the State, accompanied by the right to work, based on parentage of an Irish citizen child in respect of the person referred to by the Deputy. I am also informed that INIS has recently developed a new application form for these type of...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (8 Oct 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: I can inform the Deputy that an application for a certificate of naturalisation has been received from the person referred to and that it has entered the final stage of processing. A letter has issued to the person concerned advising that I intend to grant her application and asking her to submit the prescribed fee and other documents. When the fee and documentation has been received, the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (8 Oct 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: If the person whose details were supplied has made an application for asylum or subsidiary protection in the State, the Deputy will be aware that it is not the practice to comment on such applications until they have fully completed the protection process. This is in accordance with Section 19 of the Refugee Act 1996 (as amended) which provides for the protection of the identity of asylum...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Applications (8 Oct 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: As I advised the Deputy in my response to his Parliamentary Question No. 434 of 6 October 2015, a letter issued to the person concerned on 29th September 2015 requesting certain information in connection with her application for a certificate of naturalisation. If the person concerned requires additional time to obtain the requested information then this will of course be facilitated. ...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Applications (8 Oct 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: I am advised by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) of my Department that the processing of the application for a certificate of naturalisation from the person referred to by the Deputy is ongoing with a view to establishing whether the conditions for naturalisation, such as good character and residency are satisfied. When enquiries in this regard have been completed the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Recruitment (8 Oct 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: The Public Appointments Service (PAS) is managing the recruitment process for the Garda Commissioner and I have no direct involvement in the matter. I would advise any candidate who has any queries arising from their application to contact the Public Appointments Service.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (8 Oct 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 12 November 2008. Representations were received from the person's legal representative, to request the Minister to use her discretion, pursuant to Section 3 (11) of the Immigration Act 1999 (as amended), to revoke the Deportation...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Family Reunification (8 Oct 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: I am advised by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) of my Department that there is no current application for family reunification in respect of the spouse of the person referred to by the Deputy. If the Deputy is willing to provide further details, INIS will advise him of the position. It is open to the person concerned to make an application for a visa at any time....

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Bankruptcy Legislation (13 Oct 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: As the Deputy is aware, a proposal to reduce the bankruptcy period to one year is contained in a Private Members Bill published by Deputy Willie Penrose earlier this year. At my request, the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality considered the general question of bankruptcy reform and reported to me on 8 July on the matter. It recommended,inter alia, a 1 year bankruptcy...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Proposed Legislation (13 Oct 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: The Stormont House Agreement was established between the five parties who were in the Northern Ireland Executive and the Irish and British Governments in December 2014. It addresses a range of measures relating to the devolved institutions in Northern Ireland and measures to seek to address the legacy of the troubles. Among those measures the Stormont House Agreement provides for the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Northern Ireland Issues (13 Oct 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: On 12 August 2015, Kevin McGuigan was shot dead in Belfast and following the shooting the PSNI launched a murder investigation that is ongoing. Subsequent statements made by the PSNI referring to lines of enquiry in its investigation have attracted widespread commentary on both sides of the border. I am sure the Deputy will agree that there can be no justification for such brutal acts of...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Refugee Numbers (13 Oct 2015)

Frances Fitzgerald: Ireland has always lived up to its international humanitarian obligations and we are fully committed to playing our part in addressing the current migrant crisis facing Europe. The Government is committed to working at European level to find sustainable solutions to the migration crisis. This humanitarian crisis is an EU issue which requires a coordinated EU response and I have made it...