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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Sentencing Policy (11 Jul 2013)

Alan Shatter: The granting of sentence remission is a feature of many prison systems worldwide and has been a feature of the Irish criminal justice system since the foundation of the State. The Courts are aware of the statutory entitlement to remission when passing sentence. Section 59 (2) of the Prison Rules, 2007 allows for the discretionary granting of additional remission, up to one third as opposed to...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prisoner Releases (11 Jul 2013)

Alan Shatter: The information requested by the Deputy is set out in the table and is accurate as of 9 July 2013. Institution Participants Completions Breaches Did not complete for medical reasons Castlerea 7 6 0 0 Cork 39 24 9 0 Dochas 21 12 2 0 Limerick 50 27 7 1 Loughan House 76 45 3 4 Midlands 51 35 10 1 Mountjoy 68 47 14 2 Portlaoise 8 3 2 0 Shelton Abbey 135 102 5 1 St Patrick's 28 13 5...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Medical Service (11 Jul 2013)

Alan Shatter: I wish to inform the Deputy that the Irish Prison Service Three Year Strategic Plan 2012 - 2015, under Strategic Action 3: gives a commitment to provide equivalence of care to all prisoners in custody and to develop audit tools to measure such equivalence. The Irish Prison Service developed a set of Healthcare Standards which were published in June 2004, setting out the standards expected...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: EU Treaties (11 Jul 2013)

Alan Shatter: The British Home Secretary made an announcement to the UK parliament, on Tuesday 9 July on the UK’s position regarding its opt-out provided for under Protocol 36 to the Lisbon Treaty concerning pre-Lisbon EU criminal justice and police cooperation measures. The decision is that the UK will be opting-out on 1 December 2014 from the pre-Lisbon police and criminal law cooperation...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Crime Prevention (11 Jul 2013)

Alan Shatter: The law on begging is set out in the Public Order Act 2011. The Act defines begging as requesting or soliciting money or goods other than in accordance with a licence, permit or authorisation. Section 2 of the Act makes it an offence while begging to harass, intimidate, assault or threaten any other person or persons, or obstruct the passage of persons or vehicles. Section 5 makes it an...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (11 Jul 2013)

Alan Shatter: I refer the Deputy to my reply to Questions 474 and 487 of 25 June 2013, reproduced hereunder. The position in those respects remains unchanged. "Work on the details of the Immigration, Residence and Protection Bill 2010 is ongoing at my Department pursuant to current Government policy which is committed, under the Programme for National Recovery, to "introduce comprehensive reforms of the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Transport Data (11 Jul 2013)

Alan Shatter: Decisions in relation to the provision and allocation of Garda vehicles are a matter for the Garda Commissioner in the light of his identified operational demands and available resources. In that context, I am advised by the Garda authorities that the number of Garda vehicles assigned to the Mayo Division on the dates referred to by the Deputy was as outlined in the table. YEAR Mayo...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Applications (11 Jul 2013)

Alan Shatter: As outlined in reply to PQ number 472 of 25 June last, the number of persons granted leave to remain following consideration of their individual cases under Section 3 of the Immigration Act 1999 for the period 2008 - 2010 are published in the Justice Annual Report . The corresponding figures for 2011 are 1,101 and provisional figures for 2012 and to the end of June this year are 564 and 261...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (11 Jul 2013)

Alan Shatter: The person concerned has been granted permission to remain in the State for the period to 7th June, 2016. This decision was conveyed in writing to the person concerned by letter dated 7th June, 2013. It will be open to the person concerned to apply to the Citizenship Division of my Department for a Certificate of Naturalisation when he is in a position to meet the lawful residency criteria...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Applications (11 Jul 2013)

Alan Shatter: I am advised by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) that an application for a certificate of naturalisation was received from the person referred to by the Deputy in June, 2013. As this application was only received last month, my officials need time to consider it. The application is currently being processed with a view to establishing whether the applicant meets the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (11 Jul 2013)

Alan Shatter: I have been informed by Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) that the person referred to by the Deputy, currently does not have an application pending with General Immigration. This person arrived in the State on 27/09/2007 and was granted permission to remain in the State until 15th February, 2013. Since then, the person would appear to have remained here without the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Applications (11 Jul 2013)

Alan Shatter: I am advised by 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 December, 2011. The application is at an advanced stage of processing and will be submitted to me for decision in due course. As well as being a significant event in the life of its recipient, the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Applications (11 Jul 2013)

Alan Shatter: The first person concerned was granted temporary permission to remain in the State in 1997 under the arrangements then in place for non-EEA parents of Irish born children born in the State prior to 1 January, 2005. The permission was renewed on a regular basis by the Garda National Immigration Bureau (GNIB) with the latest renewal valid until 29 September, 2016. The second person concerned...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (11 Jul 2013)

Alan Shatter: In April, 2007, the person concerned made an application for residency in the State on the basis of being the Spouse of an EU National who was exercising her EU Treaty Rights in this State. This application was approved and the person concerned was notified to this effect by letter dated 18th August, 2008. The person concerned completed the registration formalities to the extent that his...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (11 Jul 2013)

Alan Shatter: The Deputy should note that as the person concerned has no current right of residency in the State, he would not be in a position to meet the lawful residency criteria applicable to persons applying to my Department for a Certificate of Naturalisation. As stated in my Reply to the Deputy's earlier Question, the position in the State of the person concerned will be decided by reference to the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (11 Jul 2013)

Alan Shatter: The individuals referred to currently have visa applications under consideration. Five of the visa applications were received in the Visa Office, Abuja on the 8 July 2013, the remainder on 1 July 2013. Cases of this type are dealt with in chronological order and an examination of the applications referred to will take place in due course. The actual processing time for dealing with such...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (11 Jul 2013)

Alan Shatter: I am informed by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) that the person concerned is the subject of a Deportation Order and is therefore illegally present in the State. The person concerned arrived in the State on 15 May 2000 claiming to be from South Africa and claimed asylum. Her asylum claim was refused on the grounds of credibility. A Deportation Order was signed on 23...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (11 Jul 2013)

Alan Shatter: The person concerned is a failed asylum applicant. Arising from the refusal of his asylum application, and in accordance with the provisions of Section 3 of the Immigration Act 1999 (as amended), the person concerned was notified, by letter dated 9th September, 2010, that the then Minister proposed to make a Deportation Order in respect of him. He was given the options, to be exercised within...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Applications (11 Jul 2013)

Alan Shatter: I am advised by 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 May, 2012. The application is being processed with a view to establishing whether the applicant meets the statutory conditions for the granting of naturalisation, such as good character and lawful...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (11 Jul 2013)

Alan Shatter: I wish to thank the Deputy for clarifying the situation in respect of the person concerned as my previous reply inadvertently misidentified the subject of the Deputy's question. This was due, in part, to an error in the Departmental reference number in the details provided with the question. The absence of other references used to link the individual to their records made identification...