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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (26 Sep 2013)

Alan Shatter: I am informed by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) that an application for Long Term Residency has been received from the person referred to by the Deputy. The application is currently at an advanced stage and officials from INIS will be writing to the person concerned in the coming days to finalise it. The Deputy may wish to note that queries in relation to the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (26 Sep 2013)

Alan Shatter: I am informed by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) of my Department that the person referred to has no application for residency pending. I refer the Deputy to a recent Parliamentary Question No. 36904/13 of the 18th July, 2013 which referred to the father of the person concerned. Queries in relation to the status of individual immigration cases may be made directly...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (26 Sep 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 30th January, 2008, 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: Residency Permits (26 Sep 2013)

Alan Shatter: I am informed by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) of my Department that the first person referred to by the Deputy has not had permission to be in the State since 10 May 2010. A non-national may only be in the State in accordance with the terms of any permission given to him or her by or on behalf of the Minister for Justice and Equality. There is no record of this...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (26 Sep 2013)

Alan Shatter: I am advised by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) that a valid application for a certificate of naturalisation has been received from the person referred to by the Deputy. The Deputy will appreciate that the granting of Irish citizenship through naturalisation as provided for in law is a major step for the State which confers certain rights and entitlements not only...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (26 Sep 2013)

Alan Shatter: The person concerned was granted temporary permission to remain in the State in 2000 under the arrangements then applicable to the non-EEA national parents of Irish born citizen children. This permission was renewed on a regular basis until 2010. The person concerned applied to the Garda National Immigration Bureau (GNIB) to have his permission renewed prior to December 2010. His request was...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (26 Sep 2013)

Alan Shatter: I am informed by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) that an application for Long Term Residency has been received from the person referred to by the Deputy. This application is being processed with a view to establishing whether the applicant meets the requirements such as good character and lawful residence and will be processed further when these checks are completed....

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (26 Sep 2013)

Alan Shatter: The person concerned is a failed asylum applicant. Arising from the refusal of her 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 30th March, 2009, that the then Minister proposed to make a Deportation Order in respect of her. She was given the options, to be exercised within...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Staff Data (26 Sep 2013)

Alan Shatter: I take it that the Deputy is referring to personal appointments made by Ministers during the periods in question. The Deputy will appreciate that, given the considerable passage of time, records in respect of any personal appointments by Ministers in respect of 1981 are not readily available. Information on appointments in respect of 2011 and 2013 is set out below. In 2011, in my capacity...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Recruitment (26 Sep 2013)

Alan Shatter: The day to day administration of recruitment to the Permanent Defence Force is the responsibility of the Chief of Staff of the Defence Forces. The Military Authorities have advised that the administration for the last General Service Recruitment campaign, which was held in 2012, along with the 2012 Army and Naval Service Cadetship Competitions was carried out by Permanent Defence Force...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Staff Data (26 Sep 2013)

Alan Shatter: No advisors, programme managers, press officers, political staff and communication staff were employed by this Department in 1981. Prior to my taking office in March 2011, the staffing complement of the Private Office for the Minister for Defence included 2 special advisors. I have not appointed any special advisors in my role as Minister for Defence. I have however engaged the...

Topical Issue Debate: Penalty Points System (1 Oct 2013)

Alan Shatter: I will respond to both Deputies but, on the last issue raised by the Deputy who just spoke, I am not privy to the background circumstances of the termination of anyone's employment with Independent Newspapers and I am certainly not going to comment in any way on that issue. I welcome the opportunity to comment on the findings of the Comptroller and Auditor General in his report on the Garda...

Topical Issue Debate: Penalty Points System (1 Oct 2013)

Alan Shatter: Deputy Higgins should be assured that nobody has been victimised.

Topical Issue Debate: Penalty Points System (1 Oct 2013)

Alan Shatter: There is no basis for alleging that anybody has been victimised. The allegations that were made were taken very seriously. They included claims that a number of road accidents in which people lost their lives were a consequence of fixed-notice charges being cancelled. That was established, on a very detailed basis, to be untrue. Those allegations could have caused a great deal of distress...

Mortgage Restructuring Arrangement Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (1 Oct 2013)

Alan Shatter: I hope to conclude after 20 minutes and I will then share my time with Deputies Seán Kyne and Joe Costello. Deputy Collins and the Technical Group have provided us with a further opportunity to discuss the plight of persons in mortgage arrears. This is evidenced by the Private Members' Bill being discussed which proposes the creation of a further new debt resolution mechanism. The...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Services Regulation (1 Oct 2013)

Alan Shatter: I am pleased to report to the Deputy that steady progress is being made towards the enactment of the Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011 which remains a priority under both the Programme for Government and the EU/IMF/ECB Troika structural reform programme. The Bill it is set to provide for the establishment of a new Legal Services Regulatory Authority that will be independent of the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Recruitment (1 Oct 2013)

Alan Shatter: As the Deputy is aware, I have secured the approval of my colleague, the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, for a recruitment competition for the Garda Síochána. There are a number of procedural issues that need to be finalised prior to the formal commencement of that competition and these are expected to conclude in the coming weeks. The competition will be run by the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (1 Oct 2013)

Alan Shatter: The decision to amalgamate the two Garda Districts referred to by the Deputy was one of the results of a comprehensive assessment carried out by the Garda Commissioner over a 12 month period and contained in his Policing Plan for 2013, which I laid before the House last November. It is an operational matter for the Garda Commissioner to make a decision on the date for the amalgamation. In...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (1 Oct 2013)

Alan Shatter: As the Deputy is already aware, the Garda Commissioner is responsible for the detailed allocation of resources, including personnel, throughout the organisation and I have no direct function in the matter. This allocation of resources is constantly monitored in the context of demographics, crime trends, policing needs and other operational strategies in place on a District, Divisional and...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Official Languages Act 2003 Compliance (1 Oct 2013)

Alan Shatter: At the request of the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs in June 2005 a draft Irish language scheme under Section 11 of the Official Languages Act 2003 was prepared by this Department. That draft Scheme was prepared following consideration of submissions received from interested parties outside of this Department and an internal consultation process. It was submitted to the...