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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Crime Statistics (8 May 2013)

Alan Shatter: I am informed by the Garda authorities that no instructions were issued in the past four years to alter the criteria for recording burglary offences. I am further informed that burglary offences are recorded in compliance with the General Crime Counting Rules which are published by the CSO on as Technical Notes in the Background Information section in each of its Quarterly Recorded Crime...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Operations (8 May 2013)

Alan Shatter: The Deputy will appreciate that there are many factors affecting the number of summonses, which relate in the main to less serious summary offences, issued at any point in time. These factors include the underlying level of offending as well as the use being made of the various alternatives to prosecution which exist. Caution should also be exercised of course in seeking to interpret or...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Insolvency Service of Ireland Issues (8 May 2013)

Alan Shatter: Under Section 133 of the Personal Insolvency Act 2012, the Insolvency Service of Ireland (ISI) is required to maintain registers for Debt Relief Notices (DRNs), Debt Settlement Arrangements (DSAs), Personal Insolvency Arrangements (PIAs) and Protective Certificates. The Act states that the Registers must be made available for public inspection. I am advised by the ISI that the Registers will...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Accommodation (8 May 2013)

Alan Shatter: I wish to inform the Deputy that, while the delay in providing the information is regretted, the collation of this information requires a significant amount of staff time and effort. However, I will write directly to the Deputy within the next week on the matter.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Child Abduction (8 May 2013)

Alan Shatter: As the Deputy will appreciate, it would not be appropriate for me to comment on individual cases that may have been the subject of an application under the 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction. Such applications are facilitated by the Central Authority for International Child Abduction which is part of my Department. Decisions on the outcome of such...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Owners Management Companies (8 May 2013)

Alan Shatter: The position is that the Multi-Unit Developments Act 2011 contains provisions which are primarily intended to facilitate the fair, efficient and effective management of owners' management companies (OMCs). Section 18 of the 2011 Act requires OMCs to establish and maintain a scheme of annual service charges from which they may discharge expenditure incurred on the provision of common or shared...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Owners Management Companies (8 May 2013)

Alan Shatter: The Courts Service has advised me that the information sought by the Deputy is not available since court records are not maintained in a manner which identifies the parties according to the types of proceedings involved.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Operations (8 May 2013)

Alan Shatter: I have requested a report from the Garda authorities in relation to the matter referred to by the Deputy. I will contact the Deputy directly as soon as the report is to hand.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Employment Rights Issues (8 May 2013)

Alan Shatter: I refer the Deputy to my reply to Parliamentary Question No. 194 of 1 May 2013, below. The position is unchanged since then.I refer the Deputy to my replies to Parliamentary Questions No. 54456 of 4 December 2012, No. 2999 of 22 January 2013, No. 4077 of 5 February 2013 and No. 10664 of 27 February 2013. As I explained in response to these previous questions, the Government has undertaken...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Architectural Heritage (8 May 2013)

Alan Shatter: I thank the Senator. I apologise on behalf of my colleague the Minister of State, Deputy Brian Hayes, who was unavailable. I was asked to stand in for him, so the Senator will appreciate that the information I will give him is the information that has been supplied by Deputy Brian Hayes's office to me. I am advised that Castledonovan Castle, also sometimes known as O'Donovan's Castle, is a...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Architectural Heritage (8 May 2013)

Alan Shatter: I am extremely happy that I have made Senator O'Donovan happy. I am also relieved that as a consequence of what I was in a position to tell him, the Senator did not have to carry out his threat of starting to shoot at me. I can tell the Senator there are enough people shooting at me without adding him to the posse. I will certainly convey to Deputy Brian Hayes the Senator's request that he...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Direct Provision (8 May 2013)

Alan Shatter: As the Senator is aware we are developing a new piece of legislation to deal with residence, asylum and immigration issues. It had been my hope that it would have been published by now but it is part of the legislation waiting to be completed in the Attorney General's office. It is part of the Government's enormous legislative agenda and I have to take my turn with colleagues in the context...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Direct Provision (8 May 2013)

Alan Shatter: The Senator is incorrect in his conceptualisation of the position. I do not know whether any of the properties we are discussing are in NAMA, but the point is that it matters little either way. If one of the centres is in NAMA, all it means is that the company or individual who owns the property and is running the centre borrowed money from a bank at some time in the past which went towards...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Fuel Laundering (9 May 2013)

Alan Shatter: The Criminal Assets Bureau is a statutory body established under the Criminal Assets Bureau Act 1996. The remit of the Bureau is to target those persons who seek to derive benefit from criminal activities. In carrying out this role the Bureau utilises all available legal remedies, primarily those contained in the Proceeds of Crime legislation, Taxes legislation and Social Welfare...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Firearms Licences (9 May 2013)

Alan Shatter: As it has not been possible to compile the information requested by the Deputy in the time available, I have asked the Garda Commissioner for a report on the matter and will write to the Deputy when it becomes available.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Deportation Orders (9 May 2013)

Alan Shatter: The person concerned applied for asylum on 8th April, 2004. His application was refused following consideration of his case by the Office of the Refugee Applications Commissioner and on appeal, by the Refugee Appeals Tribunal. Subsequently, in accordance with Section 3 of the Immigration Act, 1999 (as amended) the person concerned was informed by letter dated 9 September 2005, that the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Applications (9 May 2013)

Alan Shatter: The person concerned was granted permission to remain in the State for an initial 2 year period on stamp 4 conditions from 13 June 2005, under the revised arrangements for the non-EEA national parents of children born in Ireland prior to January, 2005, commonly known as the IBC/05 Scheme. The permission to remain was renewed regularly and is currently valid until June 2013. Full details of...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Auctioneering Licences (9 May 2013)

Alan Shatter: The Property Services Regulatory Authority is responsible for the control and regulation of Property Services Providers (i.e. Auctioneers/Estate Agents, Letting Agents and Management Agents). Under the Property Service (Regulation) Act 2011, all Property Services Providers (including auctioneers in livestock marts) are required to hold a licence from the Authority. I am advised by the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Courts Service Issues (9 May 2013)

Alan Shatter: As the Deputy is aware, costs in the District Court are generally determined by fixed scales which are directly related to the jurisdiction limit of the Court. Any proposals to revise the schedule upwards, following the enactment of the Courts Bill 2013, would be a matter for the District Court Rules Committee to consider in the first instance.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Proposed Legislation (9 May 2013)

Alan Shatter: The Courts Bill 2013 will introduce new monetary jurisdiction limits for both the District and Circuit Courts which broadly reflect the increase in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) since 1991 by increasing the limits to €15,000 in the District Court and €75,000 in the Circuit Court. An exception is provided for personal injuries actions, where the Circuit Court jurisdiction will...