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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (11 Jul 2013)

Alan Shatter: The individuals referred to currently have visa applications under consideration. Five of the visa applications were received in the Visa Office, Abuja on the 8 July 2013, the remainder on 1 July 2013. Cases of this type are dealt with in chronological order and an examination of the applications referred to will take place in due course. The actual processing time for dealing with such...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (11 Jul 2013)

Alan Shatter: I am informed by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) that the person concerned is the subject of a Deportation Order and is therefore illegally present in the State. The person concerned arrived in the State on 15 May 2000 claiming to be from South Africa and claimed asylum. Her asylum claim was refused on the grounds of credibility. A Deportation Order was signed on 23...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (11 Jul 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 9th September, 2010, that the then Minister proposed to make a Deportation Order in respect of him. He was given the options, to be exercised within...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Applications (11 Jul 2013)

Alan Shatter: I am advised by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) that a valid application for a certificate of naturalisation was received from the person referred to by the Deputy in May, 2012. 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: Immigration Status (11 Jul 2013)

Alan Shatter: I wish to thank the Deputy for clarifying the situation in respect of the person concerned as my previous reply inadvertently misidentified the subject of the Deputy's question. This was due, in part, to an error in the Departmental reference number in the details provided with the question. The absence of other references used to link the individual to their records made identification...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (11 Jul 2013)

Alan Shatter: The person concerned arrived in the State on 1st April 2007 for the purposes of a short term visit and was given permission to remain in the State until 10th April 2007. He remained illegally in the State after 10th April 2007. His wife arrived in the State on the 18th September 2008, and his daughter arrived in the State in the company of her grandmother in 2009. His son was born in the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Applications (11 Jul 2013)

Alan Shatter: The person concerned was granted temporary permission to remain in the State on 28 July, 1999 under the arrangements then applicable to the non-EEA national parents of Irish born children born in the State before 1 January, 2005. This permission was renewed on a regular basis with the last renewal valid until June, 2014. A valid application for a certificate of naturalisation was received...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (11 Jul 2013)

Alan Shatter: The person concerned is a sibling of an Irish born citizen child born in the State prior to 1 January 2005, whose parents were granted temporary permission to remain in the State on 4 July, 2005 under the revised arrangements for the non-EEA national parents of children born in Ireland prior to January, 2005, commonly known as the IBC/05 Scheme. I would advise the person concerned to make a...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (11 Jul 2013)

Alan Shatter: There are currently no applications pending in my Department for residency or naturalisation in respect of the persons whose details were supplied. If applications for asylum have been made by the persons concerned, the Deputy will be aware that it is not the practice to comment on applications which have not completed this process.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Applications (11 Jul 2013)

Alan Shatter: The person concerned applied for asylum on 11th May, 2007. Her asylum application was refused following consideration of her case by the Office of the Refugee Applications Commissioner and, on appeal, the Refugee Appeals Tribunal. The person concerned initiated judicial review proceedings in the High Court, challenging the decision of the Refugee Appeals Tribunal in her case. As these...

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)

Alan Shatter: -----our commitment was to examine what needed to be done following the A, B and C case and the X case and we are delivering on that commitment. We need to get on with enacting this legislation and let it settle down. There are people outside this House, even some inside it, who are suggesting this will lead to abortion on demand or is the thin end of the wedge, or that this is a...

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)

Alan Shatter: Second, the legislation recognises the rights of the unborn and the rights of the mother and seeks to have the balancing of rights that Article 40.3.3o prescribes, but, ultimately, it seeks to ensure that where the life of a mother is at real and substantial risk, a required intervention can take place. Some new Deputies have only come to this issue in recent weeks and have been at the...

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)

Alan Shatter: The courts deliver decisions on a regular basis.

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)

Alan Shatter: Some of the decisions the courts deliver make Governments uncomfortable. Litigants litigate. Citizens litigate against the State and win. Are we to say in this Parliament or in government, "Oh well, they got it wrong, we will ignore it"? That is not the way the separation of powers works. The separation of powers works on the basis that we respect the decisions delivered by the courts....

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)

Alan Shatter: I have been listening with great interest all day to this debate. When I was not in the Chamber I had it on in my room. A number of things strike me about it in the context of the amendments we are dealing with and going back to first principles might help. The first principle is that the X case involved a 14 year old rape victim who was suicidal. Many of those who oppose section 9 in the...

Business of Dáil (10 Jul 2013)

Alan Shatter: This is an issue Fianna Fáil would not address for 14 years.

Leaders' Questions (10 Jul 2013)

Alan Shatter: You created this mess in the first place.

Leaders' Questions (10 Jul 2013)

Alan Shatter: Fianna Fáil is responsible for-----

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Anti-Social Behaviour (10 Jul 2013)

Alan Shatter: I can assure the Deputy that I share the concern about incidents of anti-social driving behaviour and the impact it has on local communities. Effective roads policing is central to the Garda Policing Plan 2013 and road traffic enforcement is high throughout the country. Garda enforcement activities are focused on the main causes of deaths and serious injuries on our roads and An Garda...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Investigations (10 Jul 2013)

Alan Shatter: The Deputy will appreciate that I have no role in relation to the detailed management of any criminal investigations and that it would not be appropriate for me to comment on the specifics of any criminal investigation or on the evidence obtained by the Gardaí in connection with any investigations which they may be conducting.