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Garda Investigations. (12 Apr 2005)

Joe Costello: The Opposition does not ask questions that are not serious.

Deportation Orders. (12 Apr 2005)

Joe Costello: Question 66: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if there are plans to review the procedures used for the issuing and execution of deportation orders, in view of his decision to revoke the deportation order in respect of Mr. Olukunle Elukanlo; if the file in respect of this case had been read by him prior to the signing of a deportation order; if files in general are read...

Deportation Orders. (12 Apr 2005)

Joe Costello: I thank the Minister for supplying me with all of this information but I would like him to answer my question. I asked him whether he is going to review the procedures used in issuing an execution of a deportation order, which he did not answer, and whether he had read the file himself prior to signing the deportation order regarding Mr. Olukunle Elukanlo. I also asked him whether in general...

Deportation Orders. (12 Apr 2005)

Joe Costello: Their secondary education.

Deportation Orders. (12 Apr 2005)

Joe Costello: That is not true.

Deportation Orders. (12 Apr 2005)

Joe Costello: Will the Minister refrain from sending gardaí into classrooms within which youngsters are studying? Does he recognise that any non-nationals entitled to education here can only have this entitlement until they complete their second level education, otherwise it would not be free? The people we are speaking of would not be able to afford it. This is what I referred to and not education to...

Deportation Orders. (12 Apr 2005)

Joe Costello: That is not true.

Deportation Orders. (12 Apr 2005)

Joe Costello: Will the Minister show me the figures?

Deportation Orders. (12 Apr 2005)

Joe Costello: The majority of the asylum seekers are dealt with under the category of Irish-born children, which the Minister is speaking about. He is effectively giving an amnesty to 20,000 people in this context. The others are a proportionately small number.

Deportation Orders. (12 Apr 2005)

Joe Costello: It is the case.

Deportation Orders. (12 Apr 2005)

Joe Costello: That is where the children are.

Deportation Orders. (12 Apr 2005)

Joe Costello: Will the Minister show me the figures?

Human Rights Issues. (12 Apr 2005)

Joe Costello: I, too, welcome the fact the Commissioner has accepted all 15 recommendations and has agreed to take action to implement them. Let us be clear on what the independent human rights audit found. It found that procedures and operating practices within the Garda force can lead to institutional racism, particularly in relation to Nigerians, Travellers and Muslims. What will the Minister do? He is...

Prisons Building Programme. (12 Apr 2005)

Joe Costello: That is not quite what the Minister told us the last time I tabled a question on this matter. He told me he was agreeable to meet the residents but that they had not taken him up on his offer. He now tells me that officials met representatives of a local primary school and that some time in the future there might be a meeting with the local community. Is it not a fact that the Minister has...

Prisons Building Programme. (12 Apr 2005)

Joe Costello: Will the Minister answer the question? I ask him not to mind my policy. Let us hear about his policy.

Prisons Building Programme. (12 Apr 2005)

Joe Costello: That is the reason the Minister closed down three prisons.

Prisons Building Programme. (12 Apr 2005)

Joe Costello: I wish to ask a brief supplementary question. I asked two questions and the Minister had a side-swipe at one in regard to Dublin City Council. Will he allow the officials into Mountjoy Prison given that he refused to allow them in previously? My second question was whether he would meet the residents of Thornton Hall area. On the last occasion the Minister told me that an offer was made but...

Prisons Building Programme. (12 Apr 2005)

Joe Costello: No.

Prisons Building Programme. (12 Apr 2005)

Joe Costello: Will the Minister answer the question?

School Absenteeism. (24 Mar 2005)

Joe Costello: This is a specific issue. I want to know what the Minister intends to do in a general sense in terms of absenteeism. The school to which I refer is a second level college under the auspices of the Dublin Vocational Education Committee and the student is doing her junior certificate. The statistics are stark. In 2002, this student came into the college and was absent 90 days in that year. In...