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Written Answers — Asylum Applications: Asylum Applications (29 Sep 2010)

Dermot Ahern: 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 25 August 2006, that the Minister proposed to make a Deportation Order in respect of her. She was given the options, to be exercised within 15 working days, of leaving the State voluntarily, of...

Written Answers — Residency Permits: Residency Permits (29 Sep 2010)

Dermot Ahern: I wish to inform the Deputy that the person in question was granted a Stamp 3 for 5 years on the basis of Long-Term Residency on 8 March 2010. Our records indicate that she has been issued with a Certificate of Registration until 14 December 2013. I should remind the Deputy that queries in relation to the status of individual Immigration cases may be made direct to INIS by Email using the...

Written Answers — Asylum Applications: Asylum Applications (29 Sep 2010)

Dermot Ahern: 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 27 July 2009, that the Minister proposed to make a Deportation Order in respect of him. He was given the options, to be exercised within 15 working days, of leaving the State voluntarily, of...

Written Answers — Asylum Applications: Asylum Applications (29 Sep 2010)

Dermot Ahern: 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 17 October 2005, that the Minister proposed to make a Deportation Order in respect of him. He was given the options, to be exercised within 15 working days, of leaving the State voluntarily, of...

Written Answers — Citizenship Applications: Citizenship Applications (29 Sep 2010)

Dermot Ahern: A valid application for a certificate of naturalisation from the person referred to in the Deputy's Question was received in the Citizenship Division of my Department in April 2008. All valid applications are dealt with in chronological order as this is deemed to be the fairest to all applicants.The average processing time from application to decision is now at 26 months. More complicated...

Written Answers — Citizenship Applications: Citizenship Applications (29 Sep 2010)

Dermot Ahern: A valid application for a certificate of naturalisation from the person referred to in the Deputy's Question was received in the Citizenship Division of my Department in December 2009. All valid applications are dealt with in chronological order as this is deemed to be the fairest to all applicants.The average processing time from application to decision is now at 26 months. More complicated...

Written Answers — Asylum Applications: Asylum Applications (29 Sep 2010)

Dermot Ahern: The person concerned, a failed asylum seeker, is the subject of a Deportation Order which was made on 4 February 2009 following the consideration of her case under Section 3 of the Immigration Act 1999 (as amended) and Section 5 of the Refugee Act 1996 (as amended) on the prohibition of refoulement. This Order was served by registered post dated 6 February 2009. On 19 March 2009, the person...

Written Answers — Citizenship Applications: Citizenship Applications (29 Sep 2010)

Dermot Ahern: An application for a certificate of naturalisation from the person referred to in the Deputy's Question was received in the Citizenship Division of my Department in July 2010. On examination of the application submitted it was determined that the person in question did not meet that statutory residency requirements as set out in the Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act, 1956, as amended. The...

Written Answers — Residency Permits: Residency Permits (29 Sep 2010)

Dermot Ahern: I am informed by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) that the person referred to by the Deputy has no application pending for residency. The person concerned is the subject of a Deportation Order following a comprehensive and thorough examination of his asylum claim and a detailed examination of the representations he submitted for consideration under Section 3 of the...

Written Answers — Residency Permits: Residency Permits (29 Sep 2010)

Dermot Ahern: I am informed by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) that the person referred to by the Deputy made a Family Reunification application in April 2007. I am further informed by INIS that a letter issued to the person referred to on the 22nd September 2010 requesting further documentation. On receipt of said documentation their application will be considered further. I...

Written Answers — Garda Investigations: Garda Investigations (29 Sep 2010)

Dermot Ahern: I am informed by the Garda authorities that the matter referred to by the Deputy was investigated and a file sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), who directed that there be no criminal prosecution. The mother of the child referred to has been informed of the DPP's decision. I am further informed that the Health Service Executive was notified at the outset of the investigation...

Written Answers — Visa Applications: Visa Applications (29 Sep 2010)

Dermot Ahern: Based on the information provided by the Deputy, my Department can find no record of visa applications for the persons referred to. I should remind the Deputy that queries in relation to the status of individual Immigration cases may be made direct to INIS by Email using the Oireachtas Mail facility which has been specifically established for this purpose. The service enables up-to-date...

Written Answers — Closed Circuit Television Systems: Closed Circuit Television Systems (29 Sep 2010)

Dermot Ahern: The Community-based CCTV Scheme was launched in 2005 to provide financial assistance towards the capital costs of establishing a community CCTV system. To date two major rounds of this Scheme have been advertised, in 2005 and 2007. Two types of grant have been made available. Substantive grants of up to €100,000 have been made available from my Department with the Department of...

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (29 Sep 2010)

Dermot Ahern: I understand from my Department's Human Resources Division that the individual concerned, a Clerical Officer in the Department, applied for an internal transfer to the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) on 14 September 2010. On 16 September the officer withdrew his application for a transfer to INIS, requesting a transfer to other areas of the Department. The officer's...

Written Answers — Garda Recruitment: Garda Recruitment (29 Sep 2010)

Dermot Ahern: Applicants who are currently on a panel and have gone through the medical, physical and character vetting procedures, and are available, will be offered positions as Garda Trainees, in strict order of where they were placed on the panel, upon the resumption of recruitment.I recently announced the start of a Garda recruitment campaign to establish a panel of approved candidates who will be...

Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (29 Sep 2010)

Dermot Ahern: The precise details required by the Deputy are not readily available as not all the bodies within Vote 19 (Office of the Minister for Justice and Law Reform) are paid directly from the centralised payroll system. The total overtime and call-out payments for the year to date paid from Vote 19 are in the region of €1.346m. This represents 1.24% of total pay related expenditure in the same...

Written Answers — Visa Applications: Visa Applications (29 Sep 2010)

Dermot Ahern: I am informed that the Visa Office, Dublin can find no record of a current re-entry visa application for the person referred to. It is open to the person concerned to apply for a re-entry visa either by post or in person. Comprehensive information regarding re-entry visas is available on the website or the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (www.inis.gov.ie). Prior to making an...

Written Answers — Crime Levels: Crime Levels (29 Sep 2010)

Dermot Ahern: I am informed by the Garda Authorities that there is no differentiation between internet fraud and other types of fraud when such incidents are recorded. Therefore to establish the number of reported cases of internet fraud would involve a manual search of Garda records and would require a disproportionate amount of time and resources. An Garda Síochána are proactive in preventing this...

Written Answers — Closed Circuit Television Systems: Closed Circuit Television Systems (29 Sep 2010)

Dermot Ahern: The Community-based CCTV Scheme was launched in 2005 to provide financial assistance towards the capital costs of establishing a community CCTV system. Two types of grant have been made available. Substantive grants of up to €100,000 have been made available from my Department with the Department of Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs providing matching funding for successful...

Written Answers — Residency Permits: Residency Permits (29 Sep 2010)

Dermot Ahern: I wish to inform the Deputy that the person concerned was granted permission to remain in the State in 2005 under the revised arrangements for the non-EEA parents of children born in Ireland prior to 1 January, 2005, known as the IBC/05 Scheme. This permission was renewed in 2007 and on 30 August 2010 and is currently valid up to 7 September 2013. The wife of the person concerned has...