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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (3 Apr 2014)

Alan Shatter: I am informed that the second named person referred to by the Deputy has permission to remain in the State until 6th December, 2014. This decision was conveyed to him by letter dated 12th December, 2011. There is no record of an application for a certificate of naturalisation from the persons referred to in the Deputy's question. It is open to any individual to lodge an application for...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (3 Apr 2014)

Alan Shatter: I refer the Deputy to my reply to parliamentary Question No. 147 of 14 November, 2013 which is set out at the end of the reply to this question. I am informed by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) of my Department that the additional documentation referred to in my earlier reply was received from the person concerned on 19 March, 2014, on foot of a further request...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (3 Apr 2014)

Alan Shatter: I am advised by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service of my Department that the person concerned was granted permission to remain in the State for a three year period to 15th October, 2016. This decision was conveyed in writing to the person concerned by letter dated 15th October, 2013. That communication advised them of the requirement that to 'register' at their local Immigration...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Applications (3 Apr 2014)

Alan Shatter: I am advised by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) of my Department that the person concerned arrived in the State on 12 June 2008, and applied for asylum on 13 June 2008. This application was refused on 30 April 2010. The person concerned applied for Subsidiary Protection pursuant to the European Communities (Eligibility for Protection) Regulations 2006, Statutory...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Applications (3 Apr 2014)

Alan Shatter: I am advised by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) of my Department that the person concerned arrived in the State on the 28 September, 2009 and claimed asylum. They were informed that a declaration of refugee status had been refused on 25 January, 2010. On the 25 August, 2010 the Ministerial Decisions Unit of INIS informed the applicant that it was proposed to make a...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Services (3 Apr 2014)

Alan Shatter: There are no services currently provided by my Department where payment is made by debit or credit card.

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Reorganisation (3 Apr 2014)

Alan Shatter: As I outlined in my answer to the Deputy's Parliamentary Question on 25th March, 2014, there is broad consensus that the organisational changes in the Permanent Defence Force (PDF) have brought about significant improvements in the deployability and sustainability of the Defence Forces, while maintaining an all-arms versatile force both at home and overseas. Substantial change and...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Overseas Missions (3 Apr 2014)

Alan Shatter: Ireland has been serving with the EU Training Mission in Somalia (EUTM Somalia) since April 2010. Recently the number of Defence Forces personnel deployed to EUTM Somalia was reduced from eleven (11) to six (6), as a result of the drawdown of Defence Forces personnel associated with Ireland having held the post of Mission Commander (2 personnel) and completion of the training phase of the...

Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission Bill 2014: Order for Second Stage (8 Apr 2014)

Alan Shatter: I move: "That Second Stage be taken now."

Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission Bill 2014: Second Stage (8 Apr 2014)

Alan Shatter: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I am pleased to present this Bill to the House. It is now 15 years since the Equality Authority was established and 14 years since the establishment of the Human Rights Commission. In that time, the demographic, social and economic fabric of the State has continued to change profoundly. The commitment and professionalism of the members...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Human Trafficking (8 Apr 2014)

Alan Shatter: The National Action Plan to Prevent and Combat Trafficking of Human Beings in Ireland identified the need to establish links with airlines to develop awareness among staff of the potential vulnerability of children travelling either alone or with adults. In 2012 the Anti-Human Trafficking Unit of my Department, in consultation with their counterparts in the United Kingdom, developed a...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Recruitment (8 Apr 2014)

Alan Shatter: I wish to put on record my appreciation for the contribution that those who volunteer for service as Garda Reserve members make on a daily basis to the work of An Garda Síochána. Together with full time members, they provide vital assistance to communities and neighbourhoods right across the country. The age at which any candidate may apply to join the Garda Síochána as a...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: UN Conventions Ratification (8 Apr 2014)

Alan Shatter: The Government has approved drafting of the General Scheme of an Inspection of Places of Detention Bill. The General Scheme is currently being prepared. In addition to other measures, the Bill will include provisions to enable ratification of the United Nations Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment (OP-CAT). In...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: UN Conventions Ratification (8 Apr 2014)

Alan Shatter: The International Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance requires each State Party to take the necessary measures to ensure that enforced disappearance constitutes an offence under its criminal law. For the purposes of the Convention, "enforced disappearance" is considered to be "the arrest, detention, abduction or any other form of deprivation of liberty by...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: UN Conventions Ratification (8 Apr 2014)

Alan Shatter: I refer the Deputy to my written response of 11 March 2014, and to the response given by my colleague, Minister of State Kathleen Lynch on 27 February 2014, in which she informed the House that the Government intends to proceed to ratification of the Convention as quickly as possible, taking into account the need to ensure all necessary legislative and administrative requirements under the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Legal Costs (8 Apr 2014)

Alan Shatter: I wish to inform the Deputy that the Legal Aid Board uses solicitors in private practice to complement the service provided by solicitors in its own law centre network. For the most part, private practitioners on the Board's civil law panels are allocated family law cases in the District Court whilst they are also used, to a much lesser extent, for divorce and separation cases in the Circuit...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Motor Tax Exemptions (8 Apr 2014)

Alan Shatter: I propose to take Questions Nos. 419 and 420 together. I can inform the Deputy that there are two motor vehicles in my Department which are classed as "State owned" vehicles for revenue purposes and are therefore exempt from the payment of motor tax. These two vehicles are also covered by the State for insurance purposes. During the past five years there has been one claim of €258.42,...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Child Abuse Issues (8 Apr 2014)

Alan Shatter: The Deputy will be aware that the Garda Inspectorate Report entitled "Responding to Child Sexual Abuse" was published in February 2012, including an addendum to take account of the findings of the Cloyne Report. The report made a range of recommendations concerning the investigation of child sexual abuse with a view to addressing past failings and better protecting children in the future....

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Accommodation Provision (8 Apr 2014)

Alan Shatter: I wish to advise the Deputy that for legal reasons, all 17 year old remand prisoners continue to be detained at St Patrick's Institution. In December 2013, all sentenced 17 year olds were transferred from St Patrick's Institution to a dedicated unit in Wheatfield on an interim basis pending the opening of the new facilities in Oberstown. To facilitate this transfer, Wheatfield was...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Commissions of Investigation (8 Apr 2014)

Alan Shatter: I propose to take Questions Nos. 423, 440 to 443, inclusive, 446 and 448 together. The Government has decided to set up a statutory Commission of Investigation into the recording of telephone calls in certain Garda stations. In this regard the Government has today agreed the terms of reference for the Commission and it will examine extensively matters of public concern relating to the issue...