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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Family Reunification Applications (13 Mar 2014)

Alan Shatter: I am advised by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) of my Department that the person mentioned by the Deputy should be advised to read the new Immigration policy on Family reunification which was published on 31 December 2013. If they meet the criteria required it is open to them to make an application. Queries in relation to the status of individual immigration cases...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Applications (13 Mar 2014)

Alan Shatter: I am advised by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) of my Department that a valid application for a certificate of naturalisation had been received from the person referred to by the Deputy. As the Deputy will appreciate, the granting of Irish citizenship through naturalisation is a privilege and an honour which confers certain rights and entitlements not only within the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Family Reunification Applications (13 Mar 2014)

Alan Shatter: It is open to a visa required national to make a visa application for any purpose, the onus resting with the applicant to satisfy the Visa Officer as to why the visa should be granted. All information that the applicant wishes to have taken into consideration should be included with his or her application. The criteria that apply to the consideration of an application for a visa for the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Deportation Orders (13 Mar 2014)

Alan Shatter: I am informed by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) of my Department that only one of the persons concerned is the subject of a Deportation Order. The person concerned has been evading her deportation since 29th March 2011 and should she come to the notice of the Garda authorities would be liable to arrest and detention. She should, therefore, present herself to the Garda...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (13 Mar 2014)

Alan Shatter: The person concerned was granted temporary permission to remain in the State, on a Stamp 4 basis, on 25 June 2010. This permission was subsequently renewed, with the latest permission due to expire on 6 January, 2017. I am advised that a valid application for a certificate of naturalisation had been received from the person concerned. The application is currently being processed with a view...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (13 Mar 2014)

Alan Shatter: The person concerned was granted permission to remain in the State for the period to 11th April, 2012. This decision was conveyed in writing to the person concerned by letter dated 12th August, 2011. While this decision letter was issued by registered post, and was not returned undelivered, it is not clear that it was received by the person concerned. As a result of these circumstances, I...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Seeker Accommodation (13 Mar 2014)

Alan Shatter: The question of residency status does not arise at this time in the case of the person whose details were supplied. As the Deputy is aware, if the person concerned has made an application for asylum or subsidiary protection, the position is that it is not the practice to comment on such applications for so long as they are in the protection process. I understand that the person concerned is...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (13 Mar 2014)

Alan Shatter: The person concerned has current permission to remain, on immigration Stamp 4 conditions, until 20th June, 2014. It will be open to the person concerned to apply for the further renewal of his permission to remain one month before his current permission expires. This being the case, the Deputy will appreciate that there is no issue outstanding in the context of the immigration case of the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Applications (13 Mar 2014)

Alan Shatter: Officials in the Citizenship Division of the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) inform me that there is no record of an application for a certificate of naturalisation from the person referred to in the Deputy's question. Section 15 of the Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act 1956, as amended, provides that the Minister may, in his absolute discretion, grant an application...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Applications (13 Mar 2014)

Alan Shatter: I am advised by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) of my Department that a valid application for a certificate of naturalisation has been received from the person referred to by the Deputy. As the Deputy will appreciate, the granting of Irish citizenship through naturalisation is a privilege and an honour which confers certain rights and entitlements not only within the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (13 Mar 2014)

Alan Shatter: I am informed by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) of my Department that the person concerned does not have an application with INIS and their position remains the same as was outlined in my replies to previous Parliamentary Questions (18 September 2013 and 3 October 2013). This person, as a timed out student in the State, does not qualify for Stamp 4. Queries in...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Applications (13 Mar 2014)

Alan Shatter: I am advised by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) that an application for a certificate of naturalisation has been received from the person referred to by the Deputy. The application is being processed with a view to establishing whether the applicant meets the statutory conditions for the granting of naturalisation, such as good character and lawful residence. A letter...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (13 Mar 2014)

Alan Shatter: The person concerned has applied for a right of residency in the State, accompanied by a right to work, based on his parentage of an Irish born minor citizen child, and based also on the principles of the Zambrano Judgment. This application is under consideration at present. When consideration of this application has been completed, and a decision arrived at, the person concerned will be...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (13 Mar 2014)

Alan Shatter: The person concerned has current permission to remain in the State until 11th April, 2014. The person concerned made an application for the renewal of his temporary permission to remain and this application is under consideration at present. Once a decision has been made on this application, this decision, and the consequences of the decision, will be conveyed in writing to the person...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (13 Mar 2014)

Alan Shatter: While the number of retirements of Gardaí in the Donegal Division in 2009 and 2010 is not readily available, there have been 55 retirements of Gardai in that Division since 2011. As the Deputy will appreciate, the Garda Commissioner is responsible for the distribution of all personnel among the Garda Regions, Divisions, and Districts. Garda management keep this distribution under...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Operations (13 Mar 2014)

Alan Shatter: Garda Operation Fiacla remains in force nationally and specific burglary initiatives continue to be implemented in each Garda Region to target suspected offenders. Operation Fiacla has proven to be a robust and effective response to burglary offences and this is borne out by the latest crime statistics published by the Central Statistics Office which show that the rate of burglary has...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Measures (13 Mar 2014)

Alan Shatter: The Fines (Payment and Recovery) Bill 2013 is currently before the Seanad having completed its passage through the Dáil on 19 February last. The Bill repeals Part 3 of the Fines Act 2010 and replaces it with a comprehensive fines payment and recovery regime that will ensure: - that the court takes a person's financial circumstances into account when setting the fine; - that it is...

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Criminal Justice (Forensic Evidence and DNA Database System) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Mar 2014)

Alan Shatter: I thank the select committee for its co-operation in completing Committee Stage of this ground-breaking and important legislation. This is the most important legislation that will be enacted during this Dáil’s lifetime. It will provide assistance for members of An Garda Síochána in the investigation of crime and bringing individuals before the courts who have committed...

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Criminal Justice (Forensic Evidence and DNA Database System) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Mar 2014)

Alan Shatter: I move amendment No. 28: In page 126, between lines 25 and 26, to insert the following:“Amendment of section 77(5) of Act of 2008 121. Section 77(5) of the Act of 2008 is amended by—(a) the deletion of “and” at the end of paragraph (b), (b) the insertion of the following paragraph after paragraph (b):“(ba) in the case of a request pursuant to Article 7 of...

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Criminal Justice (Forensic Evidence and DNA Database System) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Mar 2014)

Alan Shatter: I move amendment No. 29: In page 128, lines 3 and 4, to delete “section 8 of the Criminal Justice Act 1984” and substitute the following:“any statutory provision providing for the destruction of fingerprints, palm prints or photographs of persons".These four amendments essentially all arise from the introduction of the new destruction arrangements for fingerprints, palm...