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Written Answers — Crime Prevention: Crime Prevention (14 Dec 2010)

Dermot Ahern: I am informed by the Garda authorities that the location referred to is within Raheny Garda Sub-District. Local Garda management is aware of one incident of burglary in the location referred to by the Deputy, the investigation of which is ongoing. No further incidents have been recorded in the area during 2010. A member of the local Community Policing Unit is specifically assigned to the...

Written Answers — Court Procedures: Court Procedures (14 Dec 2010)

Dermot Ahern: There are a number of provisions in the law for ensuring that payments continue to be made by spouses in support of their dependent spouses and children. They include enabling powers for the courts to order attachment of the earnings of a debtor spouse, to order the securing of payments to the maintenance creditor, to order the payment of lump sums and to order arrears of maintenance to be...

Written Answers — Deportation Orders: Deportation Orders (14 Dec 2010)

Dermot Ahern: Arising from the expiration of her permission to remain in the State on student conditions, and in accordance with the provisions of Section 3 of the Immigration Act 1999 (as amended), the person concerned was notified, by letter dated 8 June 2010, 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...

Written Answers — Departmental Appointments: Departmental Appointments (14 Dec 2010)

Dermot Ahern: I propose to take Questions Nos. 175 and 176 together. The full information sought by the Deputy is not readily available or easily accessible and requires a significant trawl of departmental and in some cases the records of bodies for which the department is responsible. I have asked that subject to other ongoing departmental and agency priorities this work be completed without undue delay....

Written Answers — Garda Recruitment: Garda Recruitment (14 Dec 2010)

Dermot Ahern: I am informed by the Garda authorities that there are currently 410 Garda applicants who have successfully completed stages 1 and 2 of the application process. Of these there are a total of 164 applicants who have completed all stages of the application process and are ready for entry to the Garda College when recruitment re-commences. The remaining candidates are being processed through...

Written Answers — Garda Recruitment: Garda Recruitment (14 Dec 2010)

Dermot Ahern: The moratorium on recruitment and appointments continues to apply to An Garda Síochána with provisions for exceptions following agreement with the Minister for Finance. The purpose of organising a recruitment campaign earlier this year was to begin the process of establishing a panel of potential applicants who could go on to be recruited as members of An Garda Síochána. Since that...

Written Answers — Asylum Applications: Asylum Applications (14 Dec 2010)

Dermot Ahern: There has been no change in the processing of applications for Subsidiary Protection as referred to by the Deputy. On a regular and ongoing basis my Department assesses the cases on hand to ensure that, as far as possible, persons who are waiting for a decision for the longest periods have their cases finalised first. The factual position is that any case where an application for Subsidiary...

Written Answers — Residency Permits: Residency Permits (14 Dec 2010)

Dermot Ahern: I am informed by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) that the person referred to by the Deputy made an application to change his current immigration status on the 14 October 2010. Applications are dealt with in chronological order and I am informed that officials in INIS will be in touch with this person shortly. I should remind the Deputy that queries in relation to the...

Written Answers — Asylum Applications: Asylum Applications (14 Dec 2010)

Dermot Ahern: I am informed by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) that unaccompanied minors are dealt with in accordance with section 8(5)(a) of the Refugee Act 1996 (as amended) which provides that, where it appears to an Immigration Officer or an authorised officer that a child under the age of 18 years who has arrived in the state and is not in the custody of any person, that child...

Written Answers — Garda Strength: Garda Strength (14 Dec 2010)

Dermot Ahern: I am informed by the Garda authorities that the personnel strength of each of the ranks referred to by the Deputy, as at 31 December 1999 - 2009, and 30 September 2010, the latest date for which figures are readily available, is set out in the table below. I am further informed that as of 10 December 2010, 2 Chief Superintendents, 9 Superintendents and 9 Inspectors have either retired or...

Written Answers — Work Permits: Work Permits (14 Dec 2010)

Dermot Ahern: The current position with regard to non-EEA nationals who wish to move to and work in Ireland is that certain such nationals are required to apply for a work permit to take up employment in the State. The issuing of work permits is a matter for the Department of Enterprise, Trade, and Innovation. When a work permit is secured, the individual, if from a visa required country must apply for...

Written Answers — Asylum Applications: Asylum Applications (14 Dec 2010)

Dermot Ahern: Section 14(1) of the Immigration Act 2004 provides that the Minister may, by notice in writing, require a non-national who does not have permission to be in the State to comply with either or both of the following conditions: that her or she reside or remain in a particular district or place in the State; that he or she report at specified intervals to an immigration officer or member of the...

Written Answers — Garda Strength: Garda Strength (14 Dec 2010)

Dermot Ahern: I propose to take Questions Nos. 185 and 186 together. I am informed by the Garda authorities that the personnel strength of An Garda Síochána and the number of Garda Reserves assigned to each Garda District in the Waterford Garda Division in the years referred to by the Deputy and as at the latest date for which figures are readily available is set out in the table below. 31/12/06...

Written Answers — Citizenship Applications: Citizenship Applications (14 Dec 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 June 2010. The application is currently being processed in the normal way with a view to establishing whether the applicant meets the statutory conditions for the granting of naturalisation and will be submitted to me for...

Written Answers — Garda Recruitment: Garda Recruitment (14 Dec 2010)

Dermot Ahern: I am reviewing the current entry requirements into An Garda Síochána in consultation with the Commissioner. This review will of course take into account the recommendations of the Report referred to by the Deputy.

Written Answers — Garda Operations: Garda Operations (14 Dec 2010)

Dermot Ahern: I am informed by the Garda authorities that Operation Shannon, which commenced in 2006, is an ongoing investigation by the Stolen Motor Vehicle Section of the National Bureau of Criminal Investigation into the theft and sale by organised crime groups of stolen vehicles, supported by counterfeit vehicle registration documentation. Since the commencement of the investigation, 221 stolen...

Written Answers — Garda Operations: Garda Operations (14 Dec 2010)

Dermot Ahern: I am advised by the Garda authorities that Operation Foolscap was established in the Galway Garda Division in October 2009. It is an ongoing operation targeting the activities of a particular organised crime group. The number of members of An Garda Síochána involved in the Operation can vary with up to 150 Gardaí involved at certain times, including members of the Criminal Assets Bureau,...

Written Answers — Criminal Justice System: Criminal Justice System (14 Dec 2010)

Dermot Ahern: The investigation by Judge Michael Reilly, Inspector of Prisons, into the handling of the sentencing, release and post release procedures in the criminal matter that is the subject of the Deputy's Question highlighted a number of very serious failings which took place across four criminal justice agencies following the sentencing in absentia of an individual to a four year term of...

Written Answers — Garda Vetting of Personnel: Garda Vetting of Personnel (14 Dec 2010)

Dermot Ahern: The Garda Central Vetting Unit (GCVU) provides employment vetting for a large number of organisations in Ireland registered with the Gardaí for this purpose and which employ persons in a full-time, part-time, voluntary or training capacity to positions where they would have substantial, unsupervised access to children and/or vulnerable adults. The GCVU has managed a substantial increase over...

Written Answers — House Prices Database: House Prices Database (14 Dec 2010)

Dermot Ahern: I can inform the Deputy that it is my intention to bring forward amendments to the Property Services (Regulation) Bill to give the new Property Services Regulatory Authority the statutory function in relation to publishing details of residential sales prices. The amendments will provide that details which, under existing stamp duty legislation, must be supplied to the Revenue Commissioners...