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Written Answers — Residency Permits: Residency Permits (10 Dec 2009)

Dermot Ahern: I have been informed by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) that the person referred to by the Deputy is currently stamped in accordance with her stated activity in the State. Her current permission on Stamp 2 is valid to 1st June 2010. The person referred to applied for a change of her current status in October 2009. This application is currently under consideration...

Written Answers — Asylum Applications: Asylum Applications (10 Dec 2009)

Dermot Ahern: I refer the Deputy to his earlier Parliamentary Question No. 146 of Thursday, 21 May 2009, and the written Reply to that Question. As I advised the Deputy in my earlier Reply, the position in the State of the person concerned now falls to be decided by reference to the provisions of Section 3(6) of the Immigration Act 1999 (as amended) and Section 5 of the Refugee Act 1996 (as amended) on the...

Written Answers — Garda Transport: Garda Transport (10 Dec 2009)

Dermot Ahern: I am informed by the Garda authorities that there is a total 57 vehicles (both marked and unmarked), comprising of cars, vans and motorcycles allocated to Kildare Garda Division. The number of vehicles assigned to each station is set-out in the table below. While these vehicles are primarily utilised by personnel at the Garda Station to which they are allocated, such vehicles are District...

Written Answers — Firearms Licences: Firearms Licences (10 Dec 2009)

Dermot Ahern: As the Deputy will be aware, with the passage of legislation earlier this year there have been significant changes in the way in which firearms are licensed in this jurisdiction. One of the changes has been the classification of firearms into two categories: restricted and non-restricted. This was done by the Firearms (Restricted Firearms and Ammunition) Order (S.I. 21 of 2008) and the...

Deportation Orders. (10 Dec 2009)

Dermot Ahern: I accept that this is a difficult case and that, obviously, a child would not make a conscious decision to evade deportation. However, this child's mother evaded deportation for four years.

Deportation Orders. (10 Dec 2009)

Dermot Ahern: The Department and the immigration service are often criticised by people in the Deputy's party. For example, on 3 December Deputy Naughten issued a press statement in which he criticised the Government on its performance in respect of completing cases relating to people making unfounded applications. The Deputy indicated that he wanted such cases completed quickly. In this instance, the...

Deportation Orders. (10 Dec 2009)

Dermot Ahern: In the child's best interests, the HSE and the garda in question made the necessary arrangements to have the child taken into care. The Deputy's question indicates that this child is an Irish citizen but that is not the case.

Deportation Orders. (10 Dec 2009)

Dermot Ahern: The Deputy's question indicates that the child is an Irish citizen, born here on 21 August 2005. We passed a referendum in 2004, the result of which was the enactment of legislation which changed the position in respect of children born on the island of Ireland.

Deportation Orders. (10 Dec 2009)

Dermot Ahern: The State will endeavour to cater for the best interests of the child to the greatest degree possible. However, I respectfully suggest that it would be in the child's best interests that he be returned to his mother in their country of origin.

Deportation Orders. (10 Dec 2009)

Dermot Ahern: There is no conflict between the HSE and the GNIB in respect of this matter. The fact is that-----

Deportation Orders. (10 Dec 2009)

Dermot Ahern: -----it is in the best interests of the child that he be repatriated with his mother in their country of origin.

Deportation Orders. (10 Dec 2009)

Dermot Ahern: The logical extension of what the Deputy suggests is that, in effect, we should drive a coach and four through the decision of the Irish people in the referendum of 2004.

Deportation Orders. (10 Dec 2009)

Dermot Ahern: Conditions were set out in legislation enacted subsequent to that referendum to the effect that children born on the island of Ireland do not necessarily have citizenship status.

Deportation Orders. (10 Dec 2009)

Dermot Ahern: Deputy Shatter is trying to have it both ways.

Deportation Orders. (10 Dec 2009)

Dermot Ahern: Deputy Shatter-----

International Agreements. (10 Dec 2009)

Dermot Ahern: The Schengen Convention is an agreement among European states which allows for the abolition of systematic border controls between participating states. It also includes provisions for the development of enhanced co-operation in respect of law enforcement matters and judicial co-operation. There are currently 25 fully participating states comprising all EU member states, with the exception...

International Agreements. (10 Dec 2009)

Dermot Ahern: Any Government would wish to bring as many tourists as possible to the island. We are not part of the Schengen Agreement, mainly because the UK is not part of it. If Ireland were to be party to the Schengen Agreement without the UK, this would mean border controls in the constituencies of Deputy McHugh and myself. He would not want us to have this because it would do away with free...

International Agreements. (10 Dec 2009)

Dermot Ahern: I have not been made aware that there are difficulties in this respect. I would hazard a guess that the Deputy should take this matter up with the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism. If there is anything we can do to facilitate more tourism, we will do so. We cannot allow our immigration and visa regime to be diluted as a result of changes made with the valid reason of bringing in...

Garda Deployment. (10 Dec 2009)

Dermot Ahern: I propose to answer Questions Nos. 6, 40 and 52 together. I am informed by the Garda authorities that the number of gardaí assigned as dedicated community gardaí in each division, as of the latest date for which figures are available, is as set in the table I am circulating with this answer. The new Garda Síochána national model of community policing was launched earlier this year. One...

Garda Deployment. (10 Dec 2009)

Dermot Ahern: There are 994 community gardaí specifically designated within the overall complement of 14,600. They work in the community and I do not accept that they are not known in their communities. In my area, community gardaí are well-known to the people they serve. The reality is that every garda should be a community garda. It is important that gardaí are visible and known in the community....