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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Joint Policing Committees (30 Jan 2013)

Alan Shatter: The Garda Síochána Act 2005 provides that JPCs operate under guidelines issued by the Minister for Justice and Equality after consultation with the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government. The current guidelines were issued in September, 2008. These guidelines provide considerable flexibility in the operation of committees, including with regard to the use of...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Property Services Regulation (30 Jan 2013)

Alan Shatter: The Property Services Regulatory Authority was established on 3 April 2012 under the Property Services (Regulation) Act 2011 to regulate, control and supervise property service providers (auctioneers/estate agents, letting agents and property management agents) and to establish and enforce standards within the property services industry. A new comprehensive licensing system for property...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Transport (30 Jan 2013)

Alan Shatter: Decisions in relation to the provision and deployment of Garda transport are matters for the Garda Commissioner. Responsibility for the efficient deployment of all official Garda vehicles in each Division is assigned to the Divisional Officer, who may allocate vehicles between Stations as required by operational circumstances. The Deputy will appreciate that a degree of flexibility in...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (30 Jan 2013)

Alan Shatter: As of 23rd January, 2013, the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service had 784 cases on hands where the applicants were seeking a right of residency in the State, accompanied by a right to work, based on the principles of the European Court of Justice Judgment in the Zambrano case. Of these, 416 cases cannot be progressed further until the documentation requested from the relevant...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (30 Jan 2013)

Alan Shatter: I am advised by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) that an application for a certificate of naturalisation was received from the person referred to by the Deputy in October, 2010. The application is at an advanced stage of processing and the applicant will be informed of my decision in due course. As well as being a significant event in the life of its recipient, the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Work Permits (30 Jan 2013)

Alan Shatter: Before being granted immigration permission to enter the workforce, persons in a "de facto" relationship must be able to satisfy the immigration authorities that the partnership is genuine and durable and that the partners are residing, or intending to reside, as a family unit in the State. In the case of a "de facto" relationship between a non EEA national and an Irish/EEA national, this...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Proposed Legislation (30 Jan 2013)

Alan Shatter: I propose to take Questions Nos. 152 and 154 together. The Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011 has completed Second Stage in the Dáil and is awaiting Committee Stage. The Bill does not make any provision in relation to the role or status of "legal executives" nor is any such provision envisaged. It is clear from the correspondence I have received from the Irish Institute of Legal...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (30 Jan 2013)

Alan Shatter: I wish to inform the Deputy that a decision has issued in respect of the visa application referred to and the applicant has been advised of same. Queries in relation to the status of individual immigration cases may be directed to INIS by e-mail using the Oireachtas Mail facility which has been specifically established for this purpose. This service enables up to date information on such...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (30 Jan 2013)

Alan Shatter: Before being granted immigration permission to enter the workforce, persons in a "de facto" relationship must be able to satisfy the immigration authorities that the partnership is genuine and durable and that the partners are residing, or intending to reside, as a family unit in the State. The required duration of the relationship is two years in the case of a person who is the partner of...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Applications (30 Jan 2013)

Alan Shatter: In each of the years 2010, 2011 and 2012, the number of non-nationals refused permission to enter the State at Dublin Airport was 2,017, 1,981 and 1,690, respectively. Of those refused permission to enter in the years in question, 259, 206 and 135 were subsequently permitted to enter the State having made an application pursuant to the Refugee Act, 1996 (as amended). At Dublin Port, a total...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Proposed Legislation (30 Jan 2013)

Alan Shatter: Work on the details of the Immigration, Residence and Protection Bill 2010 is ongoing at my Department pursuant to current Government policy which is committed, under the Programme for National Recovery, to "introduce comprehensive reforms of the immigration, residency and asylum systems, which will include a statutory appeals system and set out rights and obligations in a transparent way"....

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Applications (30 Jan 2013)

Alan Shatter: The person concerned lodged an application for asylum at the Office of the Refugee Applications Commissioner on 19th December, 2007. Following investigation by the Office of the Refugee Applications Commissioner, it was established that the person concerned had previously lodged an application for asylum in Italy, on 26th March, 2003. Arising from his previous asylum history in Italy, and in...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Army Barracks (30 Jan 2013)

Alan Shatter: As with previous rounds of consolidation under the Defence Forces modernisation programme, barracks once vacated are being disposed of with the proceeds being used to fund the upgrading of Defence Forces equipment and infrastructure. Since the announcement of the Government decision on barrack closures my Department has written to each Government Department and various agencies and local...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Army Equitation School (30 Jan 2013)

Alan Shatter: The mission of the Army Equitation School is to promote the Irish horse abroad through participation in international competitions. The Equitation School has discharged this task with considerable distinction down through the years and, through its participation and numerous successes in equitation events at home and abroad, it has successfully promoted the qualities of the Irish horse. Army...

An Garda Síochána: Motion [Private Members] (29 Jan 2013)

Alan Shatter: Such a large-scale static deployment of resources is no longer appropriate in the present day where the transport and communications infrastructure have been transformed beyond recognition. The Garda Síochána have a class-leading police computer system, a state-of-the-art digital radio system and a transport fleet which is currently receiving significant investment. The new Garda...

An Garda Síochána: Motion [Private Members] (29 Jan 2013)

Alan Shatter: I move amendment No. 1: To delete all words after "DáiI Éireann" and substitute the following: "acknowledges: — the vital role of An Garda Síochána in providing security to the State and protection to the public; and — the investment of €4 million in the Garda fleet in 2012 which provided for the purchase of a total of 213 vehicles and...

An Garda Síochána: Motion [Private Members] (29 Jan 2013)

Alan Shatter: It is the Deputy's party that destroyed the banks.

Death of Garda Adrian Donohoe: Expressions of Sympathy (29 Jan 2013)

Alan Shatter: Just after 9.30 p.m. last Friday night I was shocked and horrified when I received a call to inform me that a brave young Garda, Detective Garda Adrian Donohoe, had been brutally murdered while protecting the community. When the news spread, the reaction of people across the country was the same - a mixture of shock and revulsion. The people rightly have great respect and admiration for...

Leaders' Questions (29 Jan 2013)

Alan Shatter: Deputy Martin will have to defend "Fianna Fáil Lite" behind him.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Deportation Orders (29 Jan 2013)

Alan Shatter: I propose to take Questions Nos. 547 and 553 together. I have previously outlined the position in respect of this case in response to numerous Parliamentary Questions from the Deputy. Applications for refugee status in the State are determined by an independent process comprising the Office of the Refugee Applications Commissioner and the Refugee Appeals Tribunal which make recommendations...