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Written Answers — Prison Building Programme: Prison Building Programme (25 Apr 2007)

Michael McDowell: I propose to take Questions Nos. 108 and 109 together. The surveys undertaken prior to the acquisition of the site included physical inspection by staff of the Irish Prison Service and the adviser retained by OPW; aerial photographs; an engineering, planning and technical survey and a desktop check was made for listed sites and monuments. These preliminary examinations in relation to both...

Written Answers — Closed Circuit Television Systems: Closed Circuit Television Systems (25 Apr 2007)

Michael McDowell: I launched the Community Based CCTV Scheme in June 2005 in response to the demonstrated demand from local communities across Ireland for the provision of CCTV systems. This Scheme is designed to provide financial assistance to qualifying local organisations towards meeting the capital costs associated with the establishment of local community CCTV systems. Pobal has been engaged to...

Written Answers — Domestic Violence Legislation: Domestic Violence Legislation (25 Apr 2007)

Michael McDowell: I refer the Deputy to my reply to Parliamentary Question No. 76 of 4 April 2007. The position is as set out therein.

Written Answers — Sentencing Policy: Sentencing Policy (25 Apr 2007)

Michael McDowell: The Deputy will appreciate that I cannot comment on individual cases. The Courts are, subject only to the Constitution and the law, independent in the exercise of their judicial functions and members of the Executive are precluded from intervening. The traditional approach to sentencing is for the Oireachtas to lay down the maximum penalty and for a court having considered all the...

Written Answers — Sexual Offences: Sexual Offences (25 Apr 2007)

Michael McDowell: The Sex Offenders Act, 2001 sets out the obligations on persons convicted of a range of sexual offences. A convicted sex offender must notify his/her name(s), date of birth and current home address to the Garda Síochána within seven days of the conviction for the sexual offence concerned or, where the offender is sentenced to imprisonment, from the date of full release from prison....

Written Answers — Visa Applications: Visa Applications (25 Apr 2007)

Michael McDowell: Comprehensive information on making a visa application is available on my Department's website (www.justice.ie). The person in question is advised to submit the application to the Irish Passport & Visa Office in London, which is located at 106 Brompton Road, London SW3 1JJ.

Written Answers — Garda Investigations: Garda Investigations (25 Apr 2007)

Michael McDowell: I am informed by the Garda authorities that the incident referred to by the Deputy which in fact occurred in 2003 remains under active investigation and regular contact is maintained with the injured party.

Written Answers — Asylum Applications: Asylum Applications (25 Apr 2007)

Michael McDowell: I understand from the Immigration Division of my Department that a decision has been reached in relation to the application in question. The refugee will be informed of the decision shortly.

Written Answers — Residency Permits: Residency Permits (25 Apr 2007)

Michael McDowell: An application for residency in the State on the basis of marriage to an Irish national was received from the person in question in October 2006. Applications of this kind, in fairness to all other such applications, are dealt with in strict chronological order and currently take approximately ten to twelve months to process. It should be noted that marriage to an Irish national does not...

Written Answers — Asylum Applications: Asylum Applications (25 Apr 2007)

Michael McDowell: The information requested by the Deputy in relation to the number of asylum applications granted during the period 1992 to 2007 is outlined in Table 1. I would point out that I have been advised by the Office of the Refugee Applications Commissioner that it compiles statistics based on individual applications and not on a family basis. Table 1 — Number of applicants granted refugee...

Written Answers — Visa Applications: Visa Applications (25 Apr 2007)

Michael McDowell: The person concerned was granted a C visit visa to enter the State for a period of three months. It now appears that he is seeking an extension of his permission to remain in the State. An examination of the papers in relation to the case indicates that the person concerned sought an extension of his C Visit Visa with the Immigration Division of my Department and was refused. A wrap-around...

Written Answers — Prison Building Programme: Prison Building Programme (25 Apr 2007)

Michael McDowell: A preliminary estimate of the cost of supplying electricity to each short-listed site was provided to the site selection committee as part of the technical study carried out on each of these sites. The estimated costs involved in each case amounted to €1.5 million for a 10kV supply and €3 million for a 38kV supply. It should be noted that these estimates were prepared in 2004 and early...

Written Answers — Legal Profession: Legal Profession (24 Apr 2007)

Michael McDowell: Section 29 (as amended by substitution by section 44 of the Solicitors (Amendment) Act 1994) of the Solicitors Act 1954 provides that five years continuous practice as a solicitor is required before a solicitor may, with the written consent of the Law Society of Ireland, take on an apprentice. The Law Society has recently submitted a proposal to me to amend the legislation to reduce to four...

Written Answers — Violence Against Women: Violence Against Women (24 Apr 2007)

Michael McDowell: Funding has been made available by my Department for a number of key research projects in the last five years relating to violence against women, violence against ethnic women and domestic violence. In 2005, the National Crime Council, which is funded by my Department, published, in association with the Economic and Social Research Institute, the first ever large-scale study undertaken to...

Written Answers — Regulatory Reform: Regulatory Reform (24 Apr 2007)

Michael McDowell: I refer the Deputy to my answer to Question No. 170 of 6 March 2007. The position remains the same other than to indicate that the necessary legislation is a commitment in the Government's Legislative Programme for the Summer Session as announced by the Chief Whip on 23 April 2007.

Written Answers — Community Policing Fora: Community Policing Fora (24 Apr 2007)

Michael McDowell: Currently funding is made available via the Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs to a number of community policing fora which have been set up in the context of the Government's National Drugs Strategy 2001-2008. The further establishment of community policing fora is being delivered in the context of the policy framework set out under the Garda Síochána Act 2005. This will...

Written Answers — Citizenship Applications: Citizenship Applications (24 Apr 2007)

Michael McDowell: An application for a certificate of naturalisation from the person referred to in the Deputy's question was received in the Citizenship Section of my Department on 6 December 2004. Processing of the application has commenced and the case file will be submitted to me for a decision in the near future. I will inform the Deputy and the person in question when I have reached a decision on the...

Written Answers — Garda Investigations: Garda Investigations (24 Apr 2007)

Michael McDowell: I refer the Deputy to my response to Parliamentary Question No. 196 of 04 May 2006. As the inquest into this tragic death is ongoing, the position as outlined in my previous reply remains unchanged.

Written Answers — Residency Permits: Residency Permits (24 Apr 2007)

Michael McDowell: I am informed by the Immigration Division of my Department that a decision in the case of an application for Family Reunification by the person in question was issued on the 6th December 2006. Visas were granted for the spouse and 4 minor children of the person in question and visa applications were refused for the mother and 5 adult siblings under Section 18 of the Refugee Act 1996. A...

Written Answers — Collection Permits: Collection Permits (24 Apr 2007)

Michael McDowell: I am informed by the Garda authorities that on 9 December, 2006 two persons were observed collecting at the junction of Parnell Road and Dolphin Road in the Dublin Metropolitan Region (DMR) South Division. When approached by Gardaí they produced a collection permit issued by the Chief Superintendent, Pearse Street Garda Station authorising a collection for charity in the DMR South Central...