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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Criminal Assets Bureau (27 Jan 2016)

Frances Fitzgerald: The statutory remit of the Criminal Assets Bureau is set out in the Criminal Assets Bureau Acts 1996 and 2005. In summary, the Bureau's objectives are to identify the assets of persons which derive or are suspected to derive from criminal conduct and to deny or to deprive those persons of the assets or the benefits of such assets. With regard to the prosecution of offences, as the Deputy...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Crime Levels (27 Jan 2016)

Frances Fitzgerald: The Garda Síochána Act 2005 makes provision for the compilation and publication of crime statistics by the Central Statistics Office (CSO), as the national statistical agency, and the CSO has established a dedicated unit for this purpose. I have requested the CSO to provide the available statistical information setting out crime trends over the years in question directly to the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Strength (27 Jan 2016)

Frances Fitzgerald: As the Deputy will appreciate the Garda Commissioner is responsible for the distribution of personnel among the Garda Regions, Divisions, and Districts. Garda management keep this distribution under continual review in the context of crime trends and policing priorities so as to ensure that the best possible use is made of resources. I am informed by the Garda Commissioner that the overall...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Firearms Seizures (27 Jan 2016)

Frances Fitzgerald: I have asked the Garda Commissioner for a report in relation to this matter and I will write to the Deputy when I have further information.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Deportation Orders (27 Jan 2016)

Frances Fitzgerald: I am advised by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) of my Department that the person referred to is the subject of a Deportation Order and therefore has no entitlement to residency in the State. Representations were received asking that her Deportation Order be revoked, in accordance with the provisions of Section 3 (11) of the Immigration Act, 1999 (as amended)....

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigrant Investor Programme Applications (26 Jan 2016)

Frances Fitzgerald: The Evaluation Committee, which is responsible for determining applications made under the Immigrant Investor Programme/Start Up Entrepreneur Programme, meets every two to three months. Therefore, depending on how far in advance of a meeting an application is received, the overall processing time could take from one to four months. The Department will contact the Deputy with regard to a...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Commercial Rates Exemptions (26 Jan 2016)

Frances Fitzgerald: I can inform the Deputy that the Commissioner of Valuation is independent in the exercise of his duties under the Valuation Act, 2001 and the making of valuations for rating purposes is his sole prerogative. The Statute does not accord me, as Minister, any function in this regard. I understand that the Valuation Acts 2001-2015 provide in Schedule 4, paragraph 12a that property, being a...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Parliamentary Questions (26 Jan 2016)

Frances Fitzgerald: The information sought in relation to this matter was issued from my office on 25 January 2016 by post to the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Rights of People with Disabilities (26 Jan 2016)

Frances Fitzgerald: The Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015 enshrines a series of robust protections for those who lack decision-making capacity and has introduced significant reforms that will assist in enabling Ireland to ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The Act has been specifically devised to safeguard the rights of persons with capacity difficulties, including as...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Commencement of Legislation (26 Jan 2016)

Frances Fitzgerald: As the Deputy is aware, the Bankruptcy (Amendment) Act 2015 provided for commencement orders to bring its provisions into effect. I wish to inform the Deputy that most of the provisions of the Act will be commenced later this month. The only provisions not commenced under the Order are those dealing with the abolition of the requirement for a 'statutory sitting' of the High Court in...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Posthumous Pardon (26 Jan 2016)

Frances Fitzgerald: I propose to take Questions Nos. 276 and 277 together. My Department has considered the issues referred to by the Deputy and is advised, following consultation with the Office of the Attorney General, that the Pardon Order signed by the President on 19 December 2015 unambiguously identifies Mr. Gleeson and his conviction, and that he has been validly pardoned of that conviction. As this has...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (26 Jan 2016)

Frances Fitzgerald: As the Deputy will appreciate the Garda Commissioner is responsible for the distribution of personnel among the Garda Regions, Divisions, and Districts. Garda management keep this distribution under continual review in the context of crime trends and policing priorities so as to ensure that the best possible use is made of resources. The number of Gardaí stationed in Clondalkin district,...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Process (26 Jan 2016)

Frances Fitzgerald: The change to which the Deputy refers is the provision under which a non-marital father automatically becomes a guardian of his child where he lives with the child's mother for 12 consecutive months, including not less than three months after the birth of the child. This provision came into effect on 18 January 2016 when specified provisions of the Children and Family Relationships Act 2015...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Firearms Certificates (26 Jan 2016)

Frances Fitzgerald: I can advise the Deputy that there were 53 non-resident Firearm Certificates issued in 2014 and 91 issued in 2015 by An Garda Síochána to persons who had permission to shoot on the lands of Tubbercurry Gun Club. The non-resident Firearm Certificates are issued to individuals who use the lands of Tubbercurry Gun Club to shoot on and are not issued to Tubbercurry Gun Club itself.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (26 Jan 2016)

Frances Fitzgerald: As the Deputy will appreciate the Garda Commissioner is responsible for the distribution of personnel among the Garda Regions, Divisions, and Districts. Garda management keep this distribution under continual review in the context of crime trends and policing priorities so as to ensure that the best possible use is made of resources. The number of Garda Síochána stations and the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Seeker Accommodation (26 Jan 2016)

Frances Fitzgerald: As the Deputy is aware, the Irish Refugee Protection Programme (IRPP) was approved by Government Decision on 10 September 2015 in response to the migration crisis which has developed in Southern Europe, and as an act of solidarity with other Member States Under this decision, the Government confirmed that Ireland will take in up to 4,000 persons over the next two years in order to give to...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Community Policing (26 Jan 2016)

Frances Fitzgerald: As the Deputy will appreciate the Garda Commissioner is responsible for the distribution of personnel among the Garda Regions, Divisions, and Districts. Garda management keep this distribution under continual review in the context of crime trends and policing priorities so as to ensure that the best possible use is made of resources. I am informed by the Garda Commissioner that the overall...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Measures (26 Jan 2016)

Frances Fitzgerald: I commenced specified provisions of the Children and Family Relationships Act 2015 on 18 January 2016 which include provisions to make it easier for grandparents to seek access to their grandchildren. Grandparents will now be able to apply directly to the court for access to their grandchildren. The previous procedure was a two stage procedure whereby the grandparent had firstly to apply to...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Communications Surveillance (26 Jan 2016)

Frances Fitzgerald: It is assumed that the Deputy is referring to the provisions of the Communications (Retention of Data) Act 2011 which governs access by An Garda Síochána and certain other statutory bodies to communications data retained by service providers. Under the 2011 Act access to communications data may be granted to An Garda Síochána in respect of the prevention, detection,...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Complaints Procedures (26 Jan 2016)

Frances Fitzgerald: The Deputy is referring to the mechanism established for the independent review of certain allegations of Garda misconduct, or inadequacies in the investigation of certain allegations, which have been made to me as Minister for Justice and Equality, or the Taoiseach. A panel consisting of two Senior and five Junior Counsel was established for the purpose, all selected on the basis of their...