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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (18 Sep 2018)

Charles Flanagan: I am advised by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) of my Department that the person concerned requested permission to reside in the State on 14 May 2018. The Deputy will appreciate that applications are dealt with in chronological order. In that regard, I am informed that INIS wrote to the person concerned 10 September 2018 seeking further information. The request...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (18 Sep 2018)

Charles Flanagan: I am informed by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) of my Department that there is no record of a request for permission to reside in the State from the person concerned. I am further informed that it is open to the person concerned to write to Unit 5, Domestic Residence and Permissions Division, INIS, P.O. Box 12695, Dublin 2, setting out their current circumstances....

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (18 Sep 2018)

Charles Flanagan: I have been informed by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) of my Department that the person concerned applied on 12 October 2010 for a residence card as a family member of an EU citizen under the provisions of the European Communities (Free Movement of Persons) Regulations 2006 and 2008 and Directive 2004/38/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council. They stated...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Controls (18 Sep 2018)

Charles Flanagan: I am advised by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) of my Department that the person concerned presented a new passport on 5 April 2018 at the Burgh Quay Registration Office. The passport was referred to An Garda Síochána technical bureau for examination and the matter is now being dealt with by An Garda Síochána. Queries in relation to the status...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: National Development Plan Data (18 Sep 2018)

Charles Flanagan: The capital allocation committed for the Justice Votes Group for 2019, as published in the recent National Development Plan, is as follows: Year Allocation - € million 2019 241 A number of the projects earmarked for expenditure in 2019 are currently at design/procurement stage of the project lifecycle. The precise breakdown of the budget across various projects or programmes will...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Station Refurbishment (18 Sep 2018)

Charles Flanagan: The Deputy will be aware that there has in recent years been very significant investment in improving the condition of the Garda estate. Over €60 of million exchequer funding underpins the Garda Building and Refurbishment Programme, which is a 5-year programme based on agreed Garda priorities benefitting over 30 locations around the country. This is additional to the investment of...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Courts Service (18 Sep 2018)

Charles Flanagan: As the Deputy is aware, my Department led a Working Group of Justice Sector officials to consider options for moving forward on the proposal to establish a Community Court. Building on the recommendations of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality, the Working Group considered proposals to enhance the approach to tackling low level offenders and effectively addressing...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (18 Sep 2018)

Charles Flanagan: Officials of the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) of my Department are currently finalising a response to the Judgement referred to by the Deputy. It is difficult to accurately determine in advance how many persons are impacted by the Judgement as it depends on a number of factors including how many have remained in the State since the new students scheme was introduced in...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Crime Data (18 Sep 2018)

Charles Flanagan: I have requested the information sought from the Garda authorities and I will revert to the Deputy in due course as soon as the information is to hand.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (18 Sep 2018)

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 currently at an advanced stage. The above named has permission to reside in the State until 6 July 2020 and on completion of the necessary processing the application will be submitted...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (18 Sep 2018)

Charles Flanagan: I have requested a report from An Garda Síochána in relation to the information sought by the Deputy and I will be in contact with the Deputy directly on receipt of this report.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Insurance Fraud (18 Sep 2018)

Charles Flanagan: I am advised that An Garda Síochána has undertaken preliminary scoping work in relation to a recommendation of the Cost of Insurance Working Group that a specific unit within the National Economic Crime Bureau to tackle fraud should be funded by the industry. I understand that, at this stage, the Garda Commissioner has yet to form a view on the proposal. I would expect that an...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Road Traffic Accidents Data (18 Sep 2018)

Charles Flanagan: I am advised by An Garda Síochána that the following tables set out the numbers of persons who have been killed or seriously injured, respectively, in road traffic collisions involving a learner driver who was driving unaccompanied by a qualified driver in which the learner driver did not die in each of the years 2014 to 2017, and from January to June 2018. Year Total No....

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Vetting Applications (18 Sep 2018)

Charles Flanagan: The person to whom the Deputy refers in his question is seeking employment in the Irish Prison Service. Given the nature of the functions of the Irish Prison Service, checks secondary to and in addition to vetting are required to be carried out. While these checks can take some time to be completed for a variety of reasons depending on the individual case, every effort is made to ensure...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Accommodation Standards (18 Sep 2018)

Charles Flanagan: I wish to inform the Deputy that it has not been possible in the timeframe available to collate the information sought, as this entails a manual check of the individual records for each month. I will revert to the Deputy as soon as this information has been compiled.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prisoner Data (18 Sep 2018)

Charles Flanagan: The statistics concerning prisoners on restricted regimes are collated by the Irish Prison Service Statistics Unit. The quarterly reports are available on the website of the Irish Prison Service (), in the Information Centre – under Statistics & Information – Census Reports. As the information is compiled on a quarterly basis, data in relation to daily averages is not...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Accommodation Standards (18 Sep 2018)

Charles Flanagan: I am advised by my officials in the Irish Prison Service that the refurbishment of the D Wing Mountjoy Prison was completed in 2015. The completion of the refurbishment work represented the final phase of eliminating the practice of “slopping out” at Mountjoy Prison.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Accommodation Provision (18 Sep 2018)

Charles Flanagan: The Inspector of Prisons was established on a statutory basis under Part 5 of the Prisons Act, 2007. A new Inspector of Prisons, Ms Patricia Gilheaney, was appointed in May this year. She has an important role in ensuring an effective independent oversight of our prison system. It had been the practice of Ms. Gilheaney's predecessor to make an estimate of the capacity of each prison based on...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prisoner Discipline (18 Sep 2018)

Charles Flanagan: The Irish Prison Service is committed to reducing the number of prisoners held on restricted regimes and ensuring that each prisoner on restricted regime receives as much out-of-cell time as possible. I am advised that the Director General of the Irish Prison Service chairs a high-level group to examine measures which can be introduced to reduce the number of prisoners held on restricted...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Court Procedures (18 Sep 2018)

Charles Flanagan: S.I. No. 519 of 2009, District Court (Small Claims) Rules 2009, sets out the upper ceiling of €2,000 for small claims and came into operation on 11 January 2010. The monetary limit for small claims is fixed by Rules of Court with concurrence by myself as Minister for Justice and Equality. Any amendment to Rules of Court is a matter for the relevant Court Rules Committee. The...