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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (4 Jul 2019)

Charles Flanagan: I am informed by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) of my Department that there is no record of a request for permission to reside from the person concerned. I am further informed that it is open to the person concerned to write to Unit 5, Domestic Residence and Permissions Division, INIS, PO Box 12695, Dublin 2, setting out his current circumstances....

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (4 Jul 2019)

Charles Flanagan: I am advised by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) of my Department that it would appear this person's presence in the State may be unlawful as they do not appear to hold a current permission to remain in the State. The Deputy will appreciate that, under the relevant provisions of the Immigration Act, 2004, a non-national may not be in the State other than...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (4 Jul 2019)

Charles Flanagan: I am advised by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) of my Department that there is no record of an application for Long Term Residency from the person concerned.  In order to make an application for Long Term Residency the person concerned must have been legally resident in the State for a minimum of 5 years (i.e. 60 months) on an employment permit/work...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (4 Jul 2019)

Charles Flanagan: I am advised by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) of my Department that this person was granted a declaration of refugee status in 2002. The INIS advises that return by a refugee to his or her country of nationality will provide grounds for consideration of revocation of his or her refugee status under Section 52 of the International Protection Act 2015. The...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Deportation Orders (4 Jul 2019)

Charles Flanagan: I am informed by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) of my Department that the person concerned is the subject of a Deportation Order signed on 29 September 2017.  This Order requires the person to remove themselves from the State and remain outside the State.  The enforcement of the Deportation Order is a matter for the Garda National Immigration...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Deportation Orders (4 Jul 2019)

Charles Flanagan: I am informed by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) of my Department that the person concerned is the subject of a Deportation Order signed on 20/06/2002.  This Order requires the person to remove themselves from the State and remain outside the State.  Requests were received from the person concerned, pursuant to the provisions of Section 3(11) of the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Jul 2019)

Charles Flanagan: This is a stunt.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Ministerial Transport (9 Jul 2019)

Charles Flanagan: I am advised that the make and model is a diesel BMW 740s. The Deputy may also be interested to know that the feasibility of the use of hybrid or electric vehicles is under consideration within An Garda Síochána. I am informed by the Garda authorities that 2 electric vehicles were purchased by An Garda Síochána in 2018, in order to...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Funding (9 Jul 2019)

Charles Flanagan: The background to this issue is that an anonymous letter was originally received by my Department in September 2017 alleging that in the past there had been financial mismanagement of grant funding amounting to approximately €88,000 to a non-governmental organisation.  Subsequent related allegations were made in 2018. On foot of these allegations, the Department's Internal...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Closed-Circuit Television Systems Provision (9 Jul 2019)

Charles Flanagan: CCTV systems installed for the purposes of crime prevention and as aids to policing in areas to which the general public routinely have access fall into two distinct but complementary categories, namely Garda CCTV systems and community-based CCTV systems. Community CCTV is governed by section 38(3)(c) of the Garda Síochána Act 2005 and the Garda Síochána (CCTV) Order 2006...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Judicial Council Legislation (9 Jul 2019)

Charles Flanagan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 278, 296, 297 and 303 together. The matters raised by the Deputies are among those which have been considered by the Cost of Insurance Working Group which was established by the Government in July 2016 and is chaired by Minister of State Michael D'Arcy.  The role of the Working Group is to analyse the high costs imposed by insurance companies to...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Applications Data (9 Jul 2019)

Charles Flanagan: Figures on applications from the five countries with the most applications for the relevant years are publicly available on the website of the International Protection Office at www.ipo.gov.ie and are reproduced in the following table for ease of reference.  Year Nationality Applications 2013 Nigeria  129 Pakistan  91 DR Congo  72 Zimbabwe 70 ...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Deportation Orders Data (9 Jul 2019)

Charles Flanagan: I have been advised by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) of my Department that the numbers of Deportation Orders made during the years 2014 to 2018 are as set out in the following table. Year Deportation Orders made 2014 742  2015 764 2016 1,196 2017 932 2018  1,187 Total 4,821 With regard to the number of non-EEA nationals who have left...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (9 Jul 2019)

Charles Flanagan: I am advised by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) of my Department that a request for permission to reside in the State on Stamp 4 conditions was received on 13 August, 2018 from the person concerned.  The Deputy will appreciate that applications are dealt with in chronological order.  I understand that INIS wrote to the person on 2...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (9 Jul 2019)

Charles Flanagan: I am informed by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) of my Department that it received an application for permission to reside in this State from the person concerned under the Special Scheme for Students 2005 to 2010 on 18 October 2018.  The Deputy will appreciate that applications are dealt with in chronological order.  I understand...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (9 Jul 2019)

Charles Flanagan: As the Deputy will appreciate, it is the Garda Commissioner who is responsible for managing An Garda Síochána, including personnel, and I, as Minister, have no role in the matter. Garda management keeps this distribution of resources under continual review in the context of crime trends and policing priorities so as to ensure that the optimum use is made of these resources. I am...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Working Holiday Programmes (9 Jul 2019)

Charles Flanagan: The Working Holiday Authorisation Programme (WHA) allows non-EEA nationals from certain countries to come to Ireland to experience living and working (without the requirement of a formal work permit) for a certain period of time, normally one year. Ireland's Working Holiday bilateral agreement with Canada, which is under the remit of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, has been in...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Transport Data (9 Jul 2019)

Charles Flanagan: The resources provided by Government to An Garda Síochána have reached unprecedented levels, with an allocation for 2019 of €1.76 billion.  Very significant capital investment is also being made in An Garda Síochána, including a total of €46 million for investment in the Garda fleet between 2016 and 2021.  This continuing investment is intended...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Resources (9 Jul 2019)

Charles Flanagan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 286 and 287 together. As the Deputy will appreciate, it is the Garda Commissioner who is responsible for the distribution of resources among the various Garda Divisions and I, as Minister, have no direct role in the matter. Garda management keeps this distribution of resources under continual review in the context of crime trends and policing priorities so...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Youth Diversion Projects (9 Jul 2019)

Charles Flanagan: The resources provided by Government to An Garda Síochána have reached unprecedented levels, with an allocation for 2019 of €1.76 billion.  Very significant capital investment is also being made in Garda ICT, the Garda fleet and the Garda estate.  In total, the Garda capital allocation has increased from €61 million to €92 million in 2019, which...