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Written Answers — Citizenship Applications: Citizenship Applications (2 Apr 2009)

Bernard Durkan: Question 158: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress to date in the matter of an application for citizenship in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13996/09]

Written Answers — Residency Permits: Residency Permits (2 Apr 2009)

Bernard Durkan: Question 159: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress to date in the case of residency in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 7; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13997/09]

Written Answers — Residency Permits: Residency Permits (2 Apr 2009)

Bernard Durkan: Question 160: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the current or expected position in the matter of residency and family reunification in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 7; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13998/09]

Written Answers — Residency Permits: Residency Permits (2 Apr 2009)

Bernard Durkan: Question 161: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if it is expected to grant permission to remain and family reunification in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13999/09]

Written Answers — Residency Permits: Residency Permits (2 Apr 2009)

Bernard Durkan: Question 162: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the procedures to be followed in the matter of a satisfactory solution in the case of residency for persons (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14000/09]

Written Answers — Citizenship Applications: Citizenship Applications (2 Apr 2009)

Bernard Durkan: Question 163: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position in regard to citizenship in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14001/09]

Written Answers — Visa Applications: Visa Applications (2 Apr 2009)

Bernard Durkan: Question 164: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position in regard to family reunification in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Longford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14002/09]

Written Answers — Deportation Orders: Deportation Orders (2 Apr 2009)

Bernard Durkan: Question 166: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will review the order for deportation in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 22; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14004/09]

Written Answers — Residency Permits: Residency Permits (2 Apr 2009)

Bernard Durkan: Question 167: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress to date in the matter of residency in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15; if it is expected to conclude consideration in the near future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14005/09]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (2 Apr 2009)

Bernard Durkan: Question 190: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the basis on which jobseeker's allowance has been refused in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Meath; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14008/09]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (2 Apr 2009)

Bernard Durkan: Question 191: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if rent supplement is payable in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14010/09]

Order of Business (2 Apr 2009)

Bernard Durkan: The Minister wants to withdraw it.

Order of Business (2 Apr 2009)

Bernard Durkan: The Minister should also withdraw his remark.

Order of Business (2 Apr 2009)

Bernard Durkan: That would not be hard.

Order of Business (2 Apr 2009)

Bernard Durkan: Hear, hear.

Order of Business (2 Apr 2009)

Bernard Durkan: I remind the Tánaiste once again of the ongoing spiralling of crime levels and the urgent necessity to introduce emergency legislation to take organised criminal gangs off the streets once and for all. I will not put on the record the list of promised legislation in this area but I ask the Tánaiste to take this point on board as a matter of urgency. Has the electricity (transfer of...

Order of Business (2 Apr 2009)

Bernard Durkan: Have the heads been approved or agreed? At what stage is the Bill?

Order of Business (2 Apr 2009)

Bernard Durkan: My last question is also on promised legislation. I am sure that, as a scientist, the Leas-Cheann Comhairle will be interested to know that Albert Einstein is alleged to have carried out an experiment that resulted in the disappearance of a battleship.

Order of Business (2 Apr 2009)

Bernard Durkan: This is a valid one.

Order of Business (2 Apr 2009)

Bernard Durkan: Could it have been possible that the Green Party members were carrying out one of those experiments in the privacy of their own homes? They appear to have been vaporised and to have disappeared completely from vision, and they only come into the House occasionally. Alternatively, perhaps they are snuggled in the bosom of Fianna Fáil and have been strangled in the process.