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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Deportation Orders Issues (3 Oct 2013)

Alan Shatter: The person concerned is a failed asylum applicant. Arising from the refusal of his asylum application, and in accordance with the provisions of Section 3 of the Immigration Act 1999 (as amended), the person concerned was notified, by letter dated 31st July, 2012, that the Minister proposed to make a Deportation Order in respect of him. He was given the options, to be exercised within 15...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Deportation Orders Issues (3 Oct 2013)

Alan Shatter: The person concerned is the subject of a Deportation Order and is therefore illegally present in the State. She has been evading her Deportation since 21 February, 2012. I refer the Deputy to my reply to a previous Parliamentary Question No. 37205/13 of the 18th September, 2013. The position remains unchanged. I have previously conveyed to the Deputy, as a matter of policy, I do not intend...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Applications (3 Oct 2013)

Alan Shatter: I am advised by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) of my Department that an application for a certificate of naturalisation has been received from the person referred to by the Deputy. The application is being processed with a view to establishing whether the applicant meets the statutory conditions for the granting of naturalisation, such as good character and lawful...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Passport Applications (3 Oct 2013)

Alan Shatter: Where sections 6A and 6B of the Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act 1956, as amended, are applicable, a child born in the island of Ireland on or after 1 January 2005 has an entitlement to Irish citizenship if, at the time of the birth of the child, one of his or her parents had, during the period of four years immediately preceding the person's birth, been resident in the island of Ireland...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Applications (3 Oct 2013)

Alan Shatter: The person concerned had his status as a refugee revoked but was, as an exceptional measure, subsequently granted discretionary permission to remain in the State. According to my Department's records, the person concerned had permission to remain up to 1 October 2013. If he has not already done so, it will be open to the person concerned to apply for the renewal of this permission to...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (3 Oct 2013)

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 right to residency/naturalisation in the State. The Deportation Order was made following a comprehensive and thorough examination of his asylum claim and of his application to remain temporarily in the State. ...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (3 Oct 2013)

Alan Shatter: I am informed by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) of my Department that the person referred to by the Deputy entered the State on 18 January 2007 and was registered as a Student in the State on 1 February 2007. This person currently has permission to be in the State on Student conditions until 31 January 2014. As the Deputy was already advised in my answer to Question...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Applications (3 Oct 2013)

Alan Shatter: The position in the State of the person concerned is as set out in my detailed Reply to the Deputy's earlier Question, PQ No. 1056 of Wednesday, 18th September, 2013 - copied beneath. I can, however, confirm that the person concerned has, in recent weeks, provided further documentation. The Deputy can be assured that this documentation, together with all other information and documentation on...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Properties (3 Oct 2013)

Alan Shatter: The site in question was acquired some time ago. A number of issues subsequently arose surrounding title to the property which have taken time to resolve. The future use of the site is under consideration at present but a final decision has not yet been made.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Seeker Accommodation (3 Oct 2013)

Alan Shatter: The Reception and Integration Agency (RIA), an operational unit of the Irish Naturalisation & Immigration Service (INIS) of my Department, is responsible for the accommodation of asylum seekers in accordance with the Government policy of direct provision. There are currently 4,414 persons seeking international protection residing in 34 Direct Provision accommodation centres across 16...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Achievements of Irish Presidency and EU Justice and Home Affairs Council: Discussion with Minister for Justice and Equality (2 Oct 2013)

Alan Shatter: It will not come up at this meeting next week. That discussion on data protection will be confined to one-stop shop issues but the working group of officials who are dealing with both the regulation and the directive will be continuing to visit that issue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Achievements of Irish Presidency and EU Justice and Home Affairs Council: Discussion with Minister for Justice and Equality (2 Oct 2013)

Alan Shatter: This is an issue that we are constantly looking at. One of the difficulties in this area is when there has been Garda involvement. I am focusing on the prostitution area where the suggestion is the women have been trafficked for prostitution. Where that allegation has been made, we have had occasions when women who have made that allegation and who indicated they would co-operate with the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Achievements of Irish Presidency and EU Justice and Home Affairs Council: Discussion with Minister for Justice and Equality (2 Oct 2013)

Alan Shatter: We are continuing to do what we can. The Garda is conscious of this issue. There is a continuing dialogue between the Garda and us, and within the Department. We are preparing a new strategy to address the issue of trafficking, which no doubt we will bring to the committee.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Achievements of Irish Presidency and EU Justice and Home Affairs Council: Discussion with Minister for Justice and Equality (2 Oct 2013)

Alan Shatter: A point I should make on the right to be forgotten is that in some contexts, people have no right to be forgotten. I was talking specifically about the issues raised by the Chairman. Everyone knows about young people in this context and whatever about the present day, in the early days of the web some older people certainly put up all sorts of unwise stuff that they thought they were...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Achievements of Irish Presidency and EU Justice and Home Affairs Council: Discussion with Minister for Justice and Equality (2 Oct 2013)

Alan Shatter: On the Schengen system, there is an issue of funding to facilitate our participation in the exchange of information. That is a domestic issue. I apologise, but I missed the second question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Achievements of Irish Presidency and EU Justice and Home Affairs Council: Discussion with Minister for Justice and Equality (2 Oct 2013)

Alan Shatter: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Achievements of Irish Presidency and EU Justice and Home Affairs Council: Discussion with Minister for Justice and Equality (2 Oct 2013)

Alan Shatter: It is about providing for a balance in that area, as there are public interest issues. That matter is still part of the discussion process.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Achievements of Irish Presidency and EU Justice and Home Affairs Council: Discussion with Minister for Justice and Equality (2 Oct 2013)

Alan Shatter: I will take the last question first and come back to the right to be forgotten. One of the central kernels of the European Union is freedom of movement across the European Union, which is hugely important. In the original Treaty of Rome in 1958 the focus was to provide for a Common Market across the original six member states with freedom of movement between those states, and matters have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Achievements of Irish Presidency and EU Justice and Home Affairs Council: Discussion with Minister for Justice and Equality (2 Oct 2013)

Alan Shatter: I do not know the answer to that question. I know the work was being done on it. I will make a small confession to members which I am sure they will understand. In so far as any reports may be available it will be my practice on the weekend before the meeting to read them. I am not aware of a report yet coming to us. It may be that I will have a report by the weekend. I will deal...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Achievements of Irish Presidency and EU Justice and Home Affairs Council: Discussion with Minister for Justice and Equality (2 Oct 2013)

Alan Shatter: The main concern of Ministers in rejecting it was not to confuse what I describe as operational matters with educational matters. Europol facilitates the exchange of information on matters relating to serious crime. There was concern that if one incorporated Europol and CEPOL together, first, that a substantial portion of funding would be located in Europol rather the CEPOL. The...