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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Equality Issues (28 May 2013)

Alan Shatter: Under Section 3(3) of the Equal Status Acts 2000 to 2012, a person who is less than 18 cannot bring a claim of discrimination on the age ground. Equally, a person who is 18 or over cannot bring a claim of discrimination on the age ground which is based on a comparison with a person aged less than 18. For example, an adult cannot seek children's fare on a bus. I would emphasise, however,...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Services Regulation (28 May 2013)

Alan Shatter: I propose to take Questions Nos. 520 and 521 together. The Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011 gives legislative expression to the commitment in the Programme for Government to "establish independent regulation of the legal professions to improve access and competition, make legal costs more transparent and ensure adequate procedures for addressing consumer complaints". Furthermore, as a...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Corruption (28 May 2013)

Alan Shatter: The information sought by the Deputy is not available at present and will be forwarded to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (28 May 2013)

Alan Shatter: Based on the information supplied by the Deputy, I am informed by officials in my Department that there is no record of a current visa application for the purposes of family reunification in relation to the persons referred to. When completing an on-line visa application the applicant is assigned a unique visa transaction number. This detail must be provided where a query on the status or...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Renunciation of Citizenship (28 May 2013)

Alan Shatter: I propose to take Questions Nos. 524 and 525 together. Under the provisions of Section 21 of the Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act, 1956 as substituted by Section 7 of the 1986 Act, an Irish citizen of full age who is or is about to become a citizen of another country and is ordinarily resident outside the State, may renounce their Irish citizenship by lodging with me a declaration of...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Data Protection (28 May 2013)

Alan Shatter: I appreciate the concern of the Data Protection Commissioner that the Garda PULSE system has been accessed by Garda personnel for inappropriate purposes. As the Deputy will be aware, the management of the PULSE system is an operational matter which is undertaken by the Garda Commissioner and the Garda authorities have indicated that they are fully committed to ensuring that the appropriate...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic Violence Policy (28 May 2013)

Alan Shatter: The allocation of all resources, including personnel, within the Force rests with the Garda Commissioner, in consultation with his senior management team. Resource levels are constantly monitored, in conjunction with crime trends and other demands made on An Garda Síochána. The situation is kept under continuing review to ensure optimum use is made of these resources and the best...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Road Safety Issues (28 May 2013)

Alan Shatter: I can assure the Deputy I am conscious of the deep distress experienced by the relatives and friends of the deceased in such tragic circumstances. The Deputy will appreciate that I have no direct role in relation to the management of Garda investigations or indeed, the prosecution or trial of charges. I am, however, assured by the Garda authorities that the fatal collision referred to was...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Firearms Licences (28 May 2013)

Alan Shatter: As it has not been possible to compile the information requested by the Deputy in the time available, I have asked the Garda Commissioner for a report on the matter and will write to the Deputy when it becomes available.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Firearms Licences (28 May 2013)

Alan Shatter: I can inform the Deputy that section 4 of the Firearms Act 1925, as amended, outlines the conditions subject to which a firearm certificate may be granted by an issuing person. It includes a provision that an applicant may be asked to supply information requested in the application form and such further information as the issuing person may require. The provision includes, the power to make...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Firearms Licences (28 May 2013)

Alan Shatter: As it has not been possible to compile the information requested by the Deputy in the time available, I have asked the Garda Commissioner for a report on the matter and will write to the Deputy when it becomes available.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Intestate Estates (28 May 2013)

Alan Shatter: No data are available on the number of citizens that have made a will or the age profile of those who have not done so. The annual report of the Courts Service for 2011 indicates however that of the 16,350 applications made to the Probate Office during that year, 12,520 (76.5%) arose from cases where a will had been made and 3,820 (23.5%) were in respect of cases of intestacy. The...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Vetting Applications (28 May 2013)

Alan Shatter: The Garda Central Vetting Unit, GCVU, provides employment vetting for approximately 20,000 organisations in Ireland, registered with the unit for this purpose, which employ personnel to work in a full-time, part time, voluntary or student capacity with children and / or vulnerable adults. The unit processed approximately 328,000 vetting applications on behalf of these organisations in 2012....

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Commemorative Events (28 May 2013)

Alan Shatter: The Irish Prison Service is cognisant of the fact that the remains of Thomas Kent are the only remains of a leader of the 1916 Rising still interred in the grounds of a prison. In the context of the proposed development of a new prison in Cork it is the intention of the Irish Prison Service, subject to the agreement of the Kent family and to the necessary permits being obtained, to have his...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Stations Closures (28 May 2013)

Alan Shatter: The Deputy will be aware that the Commissioner's policing plan for 2013, which I laid before both Houses of the Oireachtas on 5 December 2012, set out plans for the closure of a number of Garda stations around the country in 2013. In that context, Lauragh Garda Station was closed on 31 January 2013. The objective of modernising and re-calibrating the Garda station network is to ensure that...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Peace Commissioners (28 May 2013)

Alan Shatter: Peace commissioners are appointed under section 88 of the Courts of Justice Act, 1924. It is open to anyone to seek nomination to this office and all such requests for appointment are considered by me. The Garda authorities may also request an appointment in the public interest when they believe there is an essential need for a further appointment. There are 24 peace commissioners entered...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Passport Controls (28 May 2013)

Alan Shatter: The Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service, INIS, recently commenced a six-month trial of automated border control gates, e-gates, at Pier A/D of Terminal One in Dublin Airport. The e-gates offer certain categories of arriving passengers - passport holders from EU states including Ireland, EEA states and Switzerland who are over 18 years of age and hold a first generation biometric...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Missing Persons Issues (28 May 2013)

Alan Shatter: I propose to take Questions Nos. 539 and 540 together. I am informed by the Garda authorities that the total number of persons reported missing for over five years, and who remain untraced, up to and including 24 May, 2013 is 606. It should be noted that this figure is provisional, operational and liable to change. All incidents where persons have been reported missing remain under...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Committals (28 May 2013)

Alan Shatter: I can inform the Deputy that the number of committals to prison for non-payment of a court order fine in 2012 was 8,304. The corresponding figures for 2011 and 2010 were 7,514 and 6,683 respectively. Unfortunately, it is not possible to provide the cost for each case as this would necessitate a manual search of each record and would require a disproportionate and inordinate amount of staff...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Agencies Funding (28 May 2013)

Alan Shatter: The Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission was established under the Garda Síochána Act 2005 to provide independent oversight of complaints made against members of the Garda Síochána. The Ombudsman Commission was in a preparatory phase in 2006 and became operational in May 2007. The 2007 allocation included significant funding relating to the initial set-up of the...