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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (5 Feb 2019)

Charles Flanagan: I am advised by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) of my Department that the person referred to has not submitted a visa application. The application process requires the person to complete an application online, and to submit the application summary form and supporting documents to the appropriate Visa Office. Details are included on the application summary form. I...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Youth Diversion Projects (5 Feb 2019)

Charles Flanagan: As I have stated previously, there are very serious issues to be addressed arising from the Garda Commissioner’s Interim Report on the handling of youth crime cases. They will be addressed through implementation of the recommendations contained in the Report of the Commission on the Future of Policing in Ireland. I want to emphasise the Government’s commitment to...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Resources (5 Feb 2019)

Charles Flanagan: There has been unprecedented investment in An Garda Síochána in recent years, in support of the Government’s commitment to ensuring a strong and visible police presence throughout the country in order to maintain and strengthen community engagement and provide reassurance to citizens and deter crime. An allocation of €1.76 billion has been provided by Government to An...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Resources (5 Feb 2019)

Charles Flanagan: As the Deputy will appreciate, the Garda Commissioner is responsible for managing and controlling generally the administration and business of An Garda Síochána as well as for decisions in relation to the allocation and management of Garda equipment and resources, including the resources allocated from the Garda Vote to the Garda Mounted Unit. As Minister, I have no direct role in...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Resources (5 Feb 2019)

Charles Flanagan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 287 and 288 together. The information requested by the Deputy cannot be provided in the time available. I have requested the information sought from the Garda Commissioner and I will write to the Deputy on receipt of same.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (5 Feb 2019)

Charles Flanagan: I am advised by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) of my Department that there are currently seven overseas Visa Offices in addition to the Visa Office in Dublin. They are located in Abuja, Beijing, London, Moscow, Ankara, Abu Dhabi and New Delhi. In addition, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade process certain visa applications in Irish Embassies abroad under...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (5 Feb 2019)

Charles Flanagan: As the Deputy is aware, the manner in which the resources of the Garda Síochána are deployed is solely a matter for the Garda Commissioner and his management team and I, as Minister, have no direct role in this regard. I am, however, informed by the Commissioner that the additional resources coming on stream has enabled him to assign resources to the Specialist Bureaus that come...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Transport Provision (5 Feb 2019)

Charles Flanagan: There has been very significant investment in Garda resources across the State in recent years. In relation to Garda vehicles, the Deputy will wish to be aware that €46 million has been provided by the Government for investment in the Garda fleet between 2016 and 2021, to ensure that An Garda Síochána has a modern, effective and fit-for-purpose fleet allowing Gardaí to...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Data (5 Feb 2019)

Charles Flanagan: As the Deputy will be aware it is the Garda Commissioner who is responsible for managing An Garda Síochána, and I, as Minister have no direct role in the matter. I understand that the information requested by the Deputy is not readily available and requires the gathering and collation of information from each of the 28 Garda Divisions, which I am sure the Deputy will appreciate is...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Debt Relief (31 Jan 2019)

Charles Flanagan: The Insolvency Service of Ireland (ISI) is an independent statutory body established under the Personal Insolvency Act 2012. The objective of the ISI is to restore insolvent persons to solvency. The ISI’s functions include authorising, supervising and regulating both Approved Intermediaries and Personal Insolvency Practitioners. An Approved Intermediary is a person or class of...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Refugee Resettlement Programme (31 Jan 2019)

Charles Flanagan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 93 to 95, inclusive, together. The Irish Refugee Protection Programme Humanitarian Admission Programme (IHAP), which I announced in May 2018, provides a new humanitarian pathway for eligible family members coming from the world’s top ten major source countries of refugees based on the UNHCR Annual Global Trends Report. Persons from the following...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Staff Data (31 Jan 2019)

Charles Flanagan: Transfers are initiated by individual staff contacting other Departments to be placed on their incoming transfer list. This process is managed by the receiving organisation. My Department does not hold information on staff members who are transfer lists for other Departments.  A new Civil Service wide mobility scheme launched last year. This scheme is co-ordinated by the Department...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Road Traffic Offences Data (31 Jan 2019)

Charles Flanagan: The Deputy will appreciate that I, as Minister for Justice and Equality, have no role in relation to the collation of data on driving offences, which is the responsibility of An Garda Síochána. I have been informed by An Garda Síochána that Garda road traffic statistics are not recorded in a way that allows for the disaggregation of the data in the manner you have...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Commemorative Events (31 Jan 2019)

Charles Flanagan: The Government's approach to commemorations over the remainder of the Decade of Centenaries will continue to be supported by the guidance of the Expert Advisory Group on Centenary Commemorations. The Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht published the most recent guidance from the Advisory Group earlier this month.  Plans to mark the centenaries of particular significant...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Community Policing (31 Jan 2019)

Charles Flanagan: As the Deputy will appreciate, it is the Garda Commissioner who is responsible for the distribution of resources, including personnel, among the various Garda Divisions and I, as Minister, have no direct role in the matter. Garda management keeps this distribution of resources under continual review in the context of crime trends and policing priorities so as to ensure that the optimum use is...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Online Safety (31 Jan 2019)

Charles Flanagan: As the Deputy will be aware, the Law Reform Commission produced a report on Harmful Communications and Digital Safety in September 2016. This report contained a number of recommendations to improve the criminal justice and regulatory response to harm perpetrated online. The report is essentially divided into two parts: It proposed the appointment of a Digital Safety Commissioner to...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Juvenile Offenders (31 Jan 2019)

Charles Flanagan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 102 to 104, inclusive, together. I have requested the information sought by the Deputy from the Garda authorities and I will contact the Deputy directly when the information is to hand.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (31 Jan 2019)

Charles Flanagan: I am advised by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) of my Department that the processing of the application for a certificate of naturalisation from the person referred to by the Deputy is ongoing. On completion of the necessary processing the application will be submitted to me for decision as expeditiously as possible. As the Deputy will appreciate, the granting of...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (31 Jan 2019)

Charles Flanagan: As the Deputy is aware, if an application for asylum or subsidiary protection has been made in the State, for confidentiality reasons it is not the practice to comment on such applications and the applicant or his legal representative should contact either the International Protection Office (IPO) or the International Protection Appeals Tribunal (IPAT) directly, as appropriate. The IPO...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Travel Documents (31 Jan 2019)

Charles Flanagan: I am advised by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) of my Department that if the person concerned wishes to apply for a travel document he or she must complete a Travel Document application form and submit it to the Travel Documents Section, Ministerial Decisions Unit, Repatriation Division, INIS, 13/14 Burgh Quay, Dublin 2. The application form and information about...