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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Surveillance Issues: Minister for Justice and Equality (19 Feb 2014)

Alan Shatter: -----that if a journalist wanted to rob a bank, or trade in drugs, would not, at some stage, be under surveillance. They would not be under surveillance because they were a journalist; they would be under surveillance for other reasons. I do not know of any journalists under surveillance.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Surveillance Issues: Minister for Justice and Equality (19 Feb 2014)

Alan Shatter: No, I did not.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Surveillance Issues: Minister for Justice and Equality (19 Feb 2014)

Alan Shatter: I have had no conversations with the Garda Commissioner about journalists who may or may not be under surveillance.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Surveillance Issues: Minister for Justice and Equality (19 Feb 2014)

Alan Shatter: I believe that we are going back to where we started four hours and ten minutes ago. Simon O'Brien on page 14 of the transcript of the hearing before this committee last week said: The security check, a security sweep, initially was in relation to a general level of risk to identify risks and mitigate these risks. I had nothing in my mind to say we were under surveillance.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Surveillance Issues: Minister for Justice and Equality (19 Feb 2014)

Alan Shatter: He did. What he said at the start appeared to give rise to the possibility that it was not the case. Later he explained it when he was asked. Of course, and unfortunately, I have said - I have been criticised for saying it - that some confusion was created as a consequence of the appearance of members of GSOC before this committee. I think the Senator and other Deputies before the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Surveillance Issues: Minister for Justice and Equality (19 Feb 2014)

Alan Shatter: No. At no stage-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Surveillance Issues: Minister for Justice and Equality (19 Feb 2014)

Alan Shatter: At no stage was it suggested to me that the sweep undertaken had anything to do with the Kieran Boylan matter. If the Senator looks at the brief I received, it is not referenced. I cannot, at this stage, recall was it Mr. FitzGerald or Mr. O'Brien - but one of them - specifically said that the Kieran Boylan matter was concluded, reported upon, complete before they moved to arrange for any...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Surveillance Issues: Minister for Justice and Equality (19 Feb 2014)

Alan Shatter: I shall answer each question as the Deputy raises them. No, I do not know the name. All I know was - I think this was said last week - that when GSOC wanted to do the sweep it tried to find the company but found that it had gone out of business. I do not know the name of that company and I have not asked.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Surveillance Issues: Minister for Justice and Equality (19 Feb 2014)

Alan Shatter: GSOC told me that it did not want to publish the Verrimus report. We are going to give it to the High Court judge and I cannot add to that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Surveillance Issues: Minister for Justice and Equality (19 Feb 2014)

Alan Shatter: I would certainly hope that no Deputy is being bugged. I am not aware of any Deputy being bugged -----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Surveillance Issues: Minister for Justice and Equality (19 Feb 2014)

Alan Shatter: Certainly, as Minister for Justice and Equality, I have not signed any document to authorise any Deputy being bugged.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Surveillance Issues: Minister for Justice and Equality (19 Feb 2014)

Alan Shatter: Or Senator. But let me say again, Chairman, if some Member of the Oireachtas is planning to rob a bank, import large amounts of cocaine or to do anything else, which the Garda Síochána may discover-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Surveillance Issues: Minister for Justice and Equality (19 Feb 2014)

Alan Shatter: I do not want to go into the substances but I could not guarantee that at some stage that I or one of my successors may not be asked to sign some sort of warrant.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Personal Insolvency Act (20 Feb 2014)

Alan Shatter: Persons solely reliant for income on payments received from the Department of Social Protection would not ordinarily be expected to pay a portion of this to creditors during the course of either a Debt Settlement Arrangement or a Personal Insolvency Arrangement. The legislative provisions contained in the Personal Insolvency Act 2012 preclude either arrangement containing any terms which...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Penalty Points System (20 Feb 2014)

Alan Shatter: The Deputy will appreciate that I have no direct role in the administration of the Fixed Charge Notice system which is a matter for An Garda Síochána. Where a person has a query concerning a Fixed Charge Notice they have received, they should contact the Garda Fixed Charge Processing Office.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Applications (20 Feb 2014)

Alan Shatter: If the persons whose details were supplied have made applications for asylum or subsidiary protection, the position is that it is not the practice to comment on such applications for so long as they are in the protection process.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (20 Feb 2014)

Alan Shatter: The Irish Nationality and Citizenship Regulations 2011 set out the prescribed fees to be paid by an applicant for a certificate of naturalisation. An application fee of €175 is payable by all applicants for a certificate of naturalisation. A certification fee is payable by applicants on the issue of a certificate of naturalisation. The standard certification fee is €950, while...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Subsidiary Protection Applications (20 Feb 2014)

Alan Shatter: The position as outlined in recent responses to Parliamentary Questions No. 181 of 23 January and No. 524 of 4 February in relation to the person whose details were supplied remains unchanged.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Applications (20 Feb 2014)

Alan Shatter: The position as outlined in recent responses to Parliamentary Questions No. 187 of 23 January and No. 525 of 4 February in relation to the person whose details were supplied remains unchanged.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Firearms Licences (20 Feb 2014)

Alan Shatter: In relation to possible changes to firearms licensing I refer the Deputy to my reply to questions 6692/14 and 6776/14 of 11 February 2014, questions 6989/14, 7049/14 and 7126/14 of 12 February, and questions 7552/14, 7554/14, 7555/14 and 8138/14 of 18 February. The position is unchanged since then.Reply to questions 6692/14 and 6776/14 of 11 February, questions 6989/14, 7049/14 and 7126/14...