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Garda Investigations (7 Oct 2010)

Dermot Ahern: Due to changes in protocols and operations and through working with the PSNI, such raids are not as frequent as they once were. Regarding tiger kidnappings-----

Garda Investigations (7 Oct 2010)

Dermot Ahern: -----criminals are moving down the chain of bank staff. It is the case that this crime is a moving target, but it would be disingenuous of the Deputy or anyone to imply-----

Garda Investigations (7 Oct 2010)

Dermot Ahern: -----that I was suggesting additional taxation on people in this day and age.

Garda Investigations (7 Oct 2010)

Dermot Ahern: To be honest, it does Deputy Shatter no-----

Garda Investigations (7 Oct 2010)

Dermot Ahern: I am informed that the Garda Síochána is aware of reports which indicate continuing efforts by dissident groups and criminal networks to become involved in the security industry. As is the case with all incidents of criminality that are reported or become known to the Garda, such incidents relating to the operation of licensed premises or nightclubs are the subject of Garda investigation...

Garda Investigations (7 Oct 2010)

Dermot Ahern: Any nightclub owner with difficulties in this regard must communicate with the Garda Síochána, which will act on the complaint as the rightful body to respond. When the Oireachtas passed the Act in 2004, it did not decide that everyone with a criminal record should be barred from working in the private security area. Rather, it took a more sensible approach because criminal records can be...

Garda Investigations (7 Oct 2010)

Dermot Ahern: However, there may be people with criminal records who are using force in some instances. The PSA is the regulatory authority in this respect. The individual and the contractor must be licensed. Under section 22 of the Act, the authority shall not issue a licence to someone who "is not a fit and proper person to provide a security service". Since its inception, approximately 36,000 checks...

Garda Investigations (7 Oct 2010)

Dermot Ahern: The Garda has a number of specialist units that investigate issues like this constantly. It needs no encouragement from me.

Crime Levels (7 Oct 2010)

Dermot Ahern: The report by the World Health Organisation relies primarily on data from a variety of medical and health related sources across Europe. In the case of Ireland, the data comes, essentially, from the CSO's medical and health related data, rather than from crime statistics. Statistics on deaths are compiled from data supplied on the medical cause of death certificate completed by medical...

Crime Levels (7 Oct 2010)

Dermot Ahern: I do not debunk the WHO statistics. I merely pointed out what was in its report and the fact that the statistics are compiled from medical records. The Central Statistics Office has compiled figures in regard to murder and manslaughter on the basis of dedicated crime statistics. Although the Deputy quoted the level of killings, the figure for this type of killing for 2007 was 32. He did...

Crime Levels (7 Oct 2010)

Dermot Ahern: -----that there has been a reduction since 2007 based on the crime statistics. It is the case there is a level of crime in this regard which nobody in this society wants. That is the reason I introduced the specific gangland crime and handgun ban legislation, about which the Deputy's party was somewhat watery.

Crime Levels (7 Oct 2010)

Dermot Ahern: The WHO figures refer to a cohort of people aged between 19 and 35. A substantial number of people in that cohort who were killed during the period in question were killed not as a result of knife crime, but as a result of gangland crime. It is wrong to say this has nothing to do with gangland crime. Concerning knife crime, when I became Minister, we looked very closely at the epidemic of...

Crime Levels (7 Oct 2010)

Dermot Ahern: As to the effectiveness of the campaign, only time will tell. Obviously, knife crime continues. There is a problem with a knife. In the Department we examined whether there was any way of banning knives as offensive weapons. The fact is that a knife from any kitchen press is a dangerous implement. An innocent knife used for cutting bread can become an offensive weapon within seconds. It...

Crime Levels (7 Oct 2010)

Dermot Ahern: With regard to the continuance of the awareness campaign, my understand is that it is ongoing, but I will relay the Deputy's comments on the need for gardaí to liaise with schools, etc. I understand that this was part of the campaign but I shall bring his comments to the attention of the Garda Commissioner.

Crime Levels (7 Oct 2010)

Dermot Ahern: I would hazard a guess that a more accurate figure may be gleaned from the CSO crime statistics rather than medical certificates. Sometimes a death by knife could be recorded, for instance, but this might not necessarily be a crime. It could refer to an injury that occurred accidentally. That is one instance, perhaps, of a more accurate gauge of crime statistics.

Deportation Orders (7 Oct 2010)

Dermot Ahern: Under section 3 of the Immigration Act 1999, the Minister for Justice and Law Reform may make a deportation order that requires any foreign national specified in the order to leave the State within such period as may be specified in the order and to remain thereafter out of the State. Thus, a deportation order is a requirement imposed on a person to leave the State and to remain outside of...

Deportation Orders (7 Oct 2010)

Dermot Ahern: I gave the figures earlier for voluntary returns. These refer to people notified to the Department as going. Any social welfare benefits and otherwise they might have been in receipt of would cease from that point onwards. In some instances the GNIB in Ennis would have facilitated their return. The figures are 529 persons in 2008, 539 in 2009 and 286 up to 31 August 2010. Equally, there...

Deportation Orders (7 Oct 2010)

Dermot Ahern: There were 286 up to the end of August.

Deportation Orders (7 Oct 2010)

Dermot Ahern: On a point of clarification, the voluntary returns might not necessarily have been served. They might have been about to be served with a deportation order.

Deportation Orders (7 Oct 2010)

Dermot Ahern: No, I am not.