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- Written Answers — Asylum Applications: Asylum Applications (19 Jan 2010)
Dermot Ahern: The person concerned applied for asylum on 22 September 2006. In accordance with Section 9 of the Refugee Act 1996 (as amended), the person concerned was entitled to remain in the State until his application for asylum was decided. His asylum application was refused following consideration of his case by the Office of the Refugee Applications Commissioner and, on appeal, the Refugee Appeals...
- Written Answers — Crime Levels: Crime Levels (19 Jan 2010)
Dermot Ahern: I am informed by the Garda authorities that the following table contains the number of cases of murder in which a firearm was used, proceedings commenced and convictions secured from 2006 to 2008 and in 2009 up to 7 December, 2009. Figures for the subsequent period referred to by the Deputy will be forwarded to him when they become available. As the Deputy is aware, these statistics, by their...
- Written Answers — Garda Strength: Garda Strength (19 Jan 2010)
Dermot Ahern: The number of operational reserve Gardaà in the Kerry Division, per District, as at the 18 January 2010, was as set out in thew following table: District Number Killarney 1 Tralee 3 Total 4
- Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (19 Jan 2010)
Dermot Ahern: The overall numbers of whole-time equivalent staff serving in my Department and agencies staffed by it at the beginning of each of the years 2007 to 2010 are set out in the following table. For the sake of completeness, I should add that these figures do not include bodies in the wider Justice sector which recruit their own staff such as the Courts Service, Garda SÃochána, Garda Ombudsman...
- Written Answers — Asylum Applications: Asylum Applications (19 Jan 2010)
Dermot Ahern: The person concerned applied for asylum on 14 June 2005. In accordance with Section 9 of the Refugee Act 1996 (as amended), the person concerned was entitled to remain in the State until her application for asylum was decided. Her asylum application was refused following consideration of her case by the Office of the Refugee Applications Commissioner and, on appeal, the Refugee Appeals...
- Written Answers — Refugee Status: Refugee Status (19 Jan 2010)
Dermot Ahern: The person in question had her refugee status revoked on the 26 November 2009. She was informed of my decision to revoke her refugee status by letter dated 4 December 2009. She was also informed of her right to appeal this decision to the High Court within 15 working days of the date of that letter. To date, no notification of an appeal has been received by the Ministerial Decisions Unit of...
- Written Answers — Citizenship Applications: Citizenship Applications (19 Jan 2010)
Dermot Ahern: All requested documentation other than a Garda Report have been received in the Citizenship Division of my Department. On receipt of the requested Garda Report a statement confirming when the person concerned acquired their certificate of naturalisation will issue.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2010)
Dermot Ahern: The issues were debated ad nauseam.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2010)
Dermot Ahern: Hear, hear.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2010)
Dermot Ahern: He has answered the question but the Deputy is too thick to hear it.
- Leaders' Questions (20 Jan 2010)
Dermot Ahern: They are a circus.
- Operational Co-operation on EU Internal Security: Motion. (20 Jan 2010)
Dermot Ahern: I move: That Dáil Ãireann approves the exercise by the State of the option or discretion, under Protocol No. 21 on the position of the United Kingdom and Ireland in respect of the area of freedom, security and justice annexed to the Treaty on European Union and to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, to take part in the adoption of the following proposed measure: a proposal...
- Operational Co-operation on EU Internal Security: Motion. (20 Jan 2010)
Dermot Ahern: I thank the Deputies for the broad cross-party support for this motion. Deputy à Snodaigh spoke about external border security. Having been Minister for Foreign Affairs and now Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, I am acutely aware of the desire of our member state colleagues, particularly driven by Ireland, of the need to address some of the difficulties with inward illegal...
- Written Answers — Departmental Websites: Departmental Websites (20 Jan 2010)
Dermot Ahern: My Department provides centralised support for 23 websites developed under its IT Shared Service model. Figures recorded in 2009 indicate that there were over one quarter of a million unique visits to my Department's main site (www.justice.ie) and over a half a million unique visits to the website of the Irish Naturalisation & Immigration Service (www.inis.gov.ie). Individual visits are not...
- Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (20 Jan 2010)
Dermot Ahern: I intend to publish new legislation on begging in due course to take account of the High Court judgment in the Dillon case. The Court ruled that the current law, Section 3 of the Vagrancy (Ireland) Act 1847, was unconstitutional. The Deputy might note that, already, there are provisions in the Children Act 2001 directed at those who use children for begging. Section 247 of that Act...
- Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (20 Jan 2010)
Dermot Ahern: As indicated in the Government Legislative Programme, announced by the Chief Whip on 19 January, 2010, the Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill is in the course of being drafted with a view to being published in this session. The provisions in the Bill for the establishment of a Court Funds Office will include amendment of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Amendment) Act 1993 to...
- Written Answers — Garda Operations: Garda Operations (20 Jan 2010)
Dermot Ahern: I am informed by the Garda Authorities that the overall costs of the policing operation to date for the Corrib Gas project, from the commencement of the operation in August 2005 to end-December 2009 is approximately â¬13.843 million. A detailed breakdown of the figures is set out in the table. These figures do not include the basic salaries of the members who performed the duty at the...
- Written Answers — Garda Investigations: Garda Investigations (20 Jan 2010)
Dermot Ahern: The circumstances surrounding the import of an explosive substance to Ireland from the Slovak Republic on 2 January 2010 are a matter of serious concern to me and the Government. The background to this incident is that the Garda SÃochána were contacted by the Dublin Airport Authorities on 5 January 2010 informing them that they had received a communication purporting to be from the Slovak...
- Written Answers — Garda Deployment: Garda Deployment (20 Jan 2010)
Dermot Ahern: I am informed by the Garda authorities, that the personnel strength of each Garda station in Galway, as at 31 December 2006 - 2009 and the retirement figures for that period, by rank, are as set out in the tables. The personnel strength by rank of each station in Galway for the period 2006-2008 and the number of new recruits, transfers or resignations in those years are not readily available...
- Written Answers — Road Safety: Road Safety (20 Jan 2010)
Dermot Ahern: In accordance with the Road Safety Authority Act 2006 (Conferral of Functions) Order 2006, the Road Safety Authority, which is under the aegis of the Department of Transport, has responsibility for carrying out research into road collisions. As part of this work, it publishes an annual report, Road Collision Facts, which contains information on fatal collisions.