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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Subsidiary Protection Applications (23 Jan 2014)

Alan Shatter: The question of residency status or entitlement to consideration for naturalisation does not arise at this time in the case of the person whose details were supplied. As the Deputy is aware, if the person concerned has made an application 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...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Applications (23 Jan 2014)

Alan Shatter: I am informed by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) of my Department that the person concerned is currently registered in the State under Stamp 4 conditions granted to him as an exceptional measure. This permission is valid until 15 March 2014 and is renewable directly with their local immigration officer shortly before its expiry date. Detailed information surrounding...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Passport Controls (23 Jan 2014)

Alan Shatter: I am advised by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) of my Department that the passport of the person referred to by the Deputy is in the possession of the Garda National Immigration Bureau (GNIB) since 20th November, 2012 when the person was landed at Dublin airport and given permission to be in the State until 5th December, 2012. The person concerned was given...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Applications (23 Jan 2014)

Alan Shatter: I am advised by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) of my Department that valid applications for certificates of naturalisation have been received from the persons referred to by the Deputy. As the Deputy will appreciate, the granting of Irish citizenship through naturalisation is a privilege and an honour which confers certain rights and entitlements not only within the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Deportation Orders Issues (23 Jan 2014)

Alan Shatter: I wish to inform the Deputy that the person referred to has no entitlement to residency. The person concerned is the subject of a Deportation Order following a comprehensive and thorough examination of her asylum claim and a detailed examination of the representations she submitted for consideration under Section 3 of the Immigration Act 1999 (as amended). The effect of a Deportation Order...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Deportation Orders Issues (23 Jan 2014)

Alan Shatter: I have outlined details in relation to the person concerned to the Deputy in previous Parliamentary Questions, the most recent being on 5th December 2013. The situation remains unchanged. The person concerned, together with the other members of his family are the subject of Deportation Orders and therefore have no entitlement to residency/naturalisation. The requirement of the Deportation...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Applications (23 Jan 2014)

Alan Shatter: The question of residency status or entitlement to consideration for naturalisation does not arise at this time in the case of the person whose details were supplied. As the Deputy is aware, if the person concerned has made an application 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...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Deportation Orders Issues (23 Jan 2014)

Alan Shatter: I am informed by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) of my Department that the person referred to is the subject of a Deportation Order and therefore has no entitlement to residency in the State. Representations were received from the person's legal representative asking that his Deportation Order be revoked, in accordance with the provisions of Section 3(11) of the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Refugee Status Applications (23 Jan 2014)

Alan Shatter: The person concerned was issued with a formal declaration of refugee status by letter dated 2 March 2002. This position still obtains. This communication advised the person concerned of the rights and entitlements accompanying refugee status in the State. An application for a Travel Document was received in respect of the person concerned on 13 January 2014. This application was...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Consultancy Contracts Data (23 Jan 2014)

Alan Shatter: The table following sets out details of consultants paid by my Department for providing consultancy services in 2013: Firm Nature of Service Amount Bianconi Research Ltd ICT Security Advice & Support €30,645 Frank Callanan, SC Independent review of UNIFIL fatalities in 1989 €51,660 Sandra McDonald Provision of taxation advice €6,000 Jacques Michaud Review of...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Personnel (23 Jan 2014)

Alan Shatter: The unsatisfactory age and fitness profile of the Permanent Defence Force was an issue of serious concern during the 1990s and was the subject of severe criticism by a series of external reports, mainly Price Waterhouse Consultants and the Efficiency Audit Group (EAG). One of the key areas identified for urgent action by the EAG was the development of a manpower policy with an emphasis on...

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Fines (Payment and Recovery) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (22 Jan 2014)

Alan Shatter: I thank the members of the committee for their co-operation, assistance and constructive comments in trying to tease out certain aspects of the Bill.

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Fines (Payment and Recovery) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (22 Jan 2014)

Alan Shatter: I move amendment No. 8: In page 10, line 42, to delete "may" and substitute "shall".Amendment No. 8 amends section 8(3) in respect of the powers of the receiver when a recovery order is made. The Bill says that the court may give the receiver the powers listed in section 8(3). The intention is that the receiver will be given all the powers concerned so for the avoidance of doubt, the word...

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Fines (Payment and Recovery) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (22 Jan 2014)

Alan Shatter: I move amendment No. 9: In page 16, line 4, to delete "Where" and substitute "Subject to subsection (4), where".

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Fines (Payment and Recovery) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (22 Jan 2014)

Alan Shatter: I move amendment No. 10: In page 16, line 15, after "to" to insert "subsection (4) and".

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Fines (Payment and Recovery) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (22 Jan 2014)

Alan Shatter: I move amendment No. 11: In page 16, between lines 35 and 36, to insert the following:"(4) Where the court is given a notice under section 15(4) by the employer of the fined person, it may, as appropriate—(a) make an order ("variation order") varying the attachment order concerned to take account of what is stated in the notice and, in any such case—(i) the appropriate court...

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Fines (Payment and Recovery) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (22 Jan 2014)

Alan Shatter: I move amendment No. 12: In page 17, between lines 4 and 5, to insert the following:"(4) Where, at any time while the attachment order is in force, it comes to the attention of the employer to whom it is directed that the fined person’s earnings are, for whatever reason, insufficient to meet one or more than one deduction required to be made from those earnings in compliance with the...

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Fines (Payment and Recovery) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (22 Jan 2014)

Alan Shatter: I move amendment No. 13: In page 17, to delete line 48, and in page 18, to delete lines 1 to 9, and substitute the following: "(2) Where—(a) the fined person advises the court that he or she is no longer in employment in accordance with subsection (1)(a)(ii)(II), (b) the employer of the fined person to whom the attachment order is directed advises the court that the fined person has...

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Fines (Payment and Recovery) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (22 Jan 2014)

Alan Shatter: I move amendment No. 14: In page 19, to delete lines 5 and 6 and substitute the following:"(b) when the employer is given a notice under subsection (1), (c) subject to section 15(4), if the employer is not the fined person’s employer at the time when the service of the order is effected, or".

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Fines (Payment and Recovery) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (22 Jan 2014)

Alan Shatter: I move amendment No. 15: In page 26, line 1, to delete "in a prepaid registered letter".The amendment sets out in section 21 the manner in which notices under the Bill are to be served. In section 1(c), there is reference to a notice being sent by registered post. This amendment deletes the reference to registered post. The effect of this is that the Courts Service may send notices by...