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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda-PSNI Transfers (22 Oct 2013)

Alan Shatter: I propose to take Questions NOs. 400 to 402, inclusive, together. The Inter-Governmental Agreement on Police co-operation obliged both Governments to introduce the necessary administrative and legislative measures to provide for exchanges, secondments and appointments between the Garda Síochana and the PSNI. Protocols are in place between the Garda Commissioner and the Chief Constable...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prisoner Releases (22 Oct 2013)

Alan Shatter: I propose to take Questions Nos. 403 and 411 together. The information requested is set out in the table below. In the three years 2010 to 2012, a total of 15 life sentence prisoners were released. - 2010 2011 2012 Life sentenced prisoners released 6 5 4 Average served in prison 18 years 3 months 20 years 22 years Life sentenced prisoners recalled 1 1 1 All prisoners who are serving...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Charitable Lotteries Scheme (22 Oct 2013)

Alan Shatter: The Charitable Lotteries Scheme was established in 1997 to provide assistance to the promoters of certain private charitable lotteries that have products similar to products sold by the National Lottery. Assistance under the Scheme was originally drawn solely from the National Lottery surplus but, as with other National Lottery funded subheads, it is now drawn also from exchequer funds. From...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Charitable Lotteries Scheme (22 Oct 2013)

Alan Shatter: The Charitable Lotteries Scheme was established in 1997 to provide assistance to the promoters of certain private charitable lotteries that have products similar to products sold by the National Lottery. This funding was originally drawn from the National Lottery surplus but, as with other National Lottery funded subheads, it is now drawn also from exchequer funds. Because of the urgent need...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (22 Oct 2013)

Alan Shatter: I have been informed by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) of my Department that the person referred to by the Deputy entered the State as a student on 5 October 2009 and registered on Student conditions on 23 October 2009. This permission expired on 13 October 2012. If this person has been present in the State since that date he has been unlawfully present. This would...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Equipment (22 Oct 2013)

Alan Shatter: The provision of Garda equipment, including boats, is a matter for the Garda Commissioner in the light of his identified operational requirements and I have no direct function in this area. In that context, I am advised by the Garda authorities that the existing resources available to the Garda Water Unit are sufficient to meet its requirements and, accordingly, that there are currently no...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Recruitment (22 Oct 2013)

Alan Shatter: Recruitment to An Garda Síochána is governed by statutory regulations. The current Garda Síochána (Admissions and Appointments) (Amendment) Regulation 2006, expressly allows the Public Appointments Service to take into account any satisfactory service by a person as a reserve member of the Garda Síochána, when they are applying to join the full time force. These...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Magdalen Laundries Report (22 Oct 2013)

Alan Shatter: I expect to bring the Report of the Inter Departmental Group on the Implementation of the Recommendations of Judge Quirke for a Scheme for the benefit of those women who were admitted to and worked in Magdalen Laundries back before the Government very shortly. When the Report has been considered by the Government it will be published on my Department's website.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Applications (22 Oct 2013)

Alan Shatter: The detailed provisions relating to the making of an asylum application at the frontiers of the State are set out in Sections 8 and 9 of the Refugee Act, 1996 (as amended). Briefly, those provisions require persons seeking to make an application to be interviewed by an immigration officer and informed, where possible in a language that the person understands, that they may apply to the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Vetting Applications (22 Oct 2013)

Alan Shatter: I am informed by the Garda authorities that it is not possible to check the status of the application referred to in the absence of details of a date of birth. If the Deputy will provide the additional information, I will have further enquiries made in the matter.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Road Traffic Offences (22 Oct 2013)

Alan Shatter: The court poor box is a non-statutory system used mostly by the District Courts to impose a financial charge on a defendant to be used for a charitable purpose, usually instead of imposing a criminal conviction. Payments made to the court poor box are accounted for by the court office concerned and the accounting procedures are subject to audit by the Comptroller and Auditor General....

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Crime Data (22 Oct 2013)

Alan Shatter: I propose to take Questions Nos. 414 and 416 together. The Garda Síochána Act 2005 makes provision for the compilation and publication of crime statistics by the Central Statistics Office (CSO), as the national statistical agency, and the CSO has established a dedicated unit for this purpose. I have requested the CSO to provide statistics directly to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (22 Oct 2013)

Alan Shatter: I propose to take Questions Nos. 415 and 417 together. As the Deputy is aware, the Garda Commissioner is responsible for the detailed allocation of resources, including personnel, throughout the organisation and I have no function in the matter. This allocation of resources is constantly monitored in the context of demographics, crime trends, policing needs and other operational strategies...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Expenditure (22 Oct 2013)

Alan Shatter: The full year effect of the expenditure reductions for Vote 24 - Justice and Equality as outlined in Expenditure Report 2013 was €12 million. Further reductions were outlined in Expenditure Report 2014 and the full year effect for the Justice and Equality Vote will be in the region of €19.6 million. A proportion of these reductions are already reflected in the Revised Estimates...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: National Drugs Strategy Budget (22 Oct 2013)

Alan Shatter: I understand that the financial details supplied by my colleague the Minister for Health in Question No 388 on 15 October 2013 took account of information provided by the Garda authorities. However, if the Deputy wishes to obtain specific information in relation to the sum of €241 million I would suggest that he should consult with the Minister for Health who was, of course,...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Remuneration (22 Oct 2013)

Alan Shatter: I would refer the Deputy to my reply to the House on 15 October 2013 to Question No. 294 which gives the background to this move. I should mention that when I approved the proposal to resume paying Defence Forces pensions at the end of the month, I asked my officials to arrange to have this done on a phased basis to take account of the fact that people may have organised their financial...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Expenditure (22 Oct 2013)

Alan Shatter: As part of the Comprehensive Review of Expenditure (CRE) process, my Department engaged in a systematic examination of all elements of Defence expenditure. Following engagement with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, the ceilings for expenditure within the Defence Sector were set out for the 2012-2014 period. These ceilings were based on a rigorous assessment of pay, non-pay and...

Topical Issue Matters: Defence Forces Medicinal Products (17 Oct 2013)

Alan Shatter: It is always legitimate that questions are asked but the fact that individuals raised concerns does not justify the Deputy being alarmist with regard to the use of lariam. As the Deputy well knows from responses to previous questions in the Dáil on the issue, which I addressed at great length, the difficulties that arose with the use of lariam by members of the United States army...

Topical Issue Matters: Defence Forces Medicinal Products (17 Oct 2013)

Alan Shatter: I thank the Deputy for raising the issue. I am sorry he is making allegations that somebody has something to hide. I certainly have nothing to hide and I assume each of my predecessors who were Ministers for Defence for 14 years during the lifetime of the previous Government had nothing to hide. The document to which the Deputy refers, the instructions from 2009 published by the Defence...

Order of Business (17 Oct 2013)

Alan Shatter: Obviously, it is the PR line Deputy Martin has been given, is it?