Results 11,861-11,880 of 19,162 for speaker:Alan Shatter

Written Answers — Private Security Authority: Private Security Authority (15 Mar 2012)

Alan Shatter: The Private Security Services Act 2004 provides at section 40 for the establishment of a Private Security Appeal Board to hear and determine appeals against decisions of the Private Security Authority. I am in the process of making the necessary arrangements for new appointments following the expiration of the term of the previous Appeal Board.

Written Answers — Closed Circuit Television Systems: Closed Circuit Television Systems (15 Mar 2012)

Alan Shatter: The community-based CCTV Scheme was first launched in 2005 to provide financial assistance towards the capital costs of establishing a community CCTV system. The Scheme provided for two types of grants: a pre-development grant of up to €5,000 to assist local communities to develop proposals and substantive grants of up to €100,000 towards the capital cost of establishing a system. In...

Written Answers — Garda Operations: Garda Operations (15 Mar 2012)

Alan Shatter: I have been informed by the Garda authorities that Operation Clean-street was an initiative undertaken by the Garda National Drugs Unit, in conjunction with District and Divisional Garda Management, to target individuals involved in on-street sale and supply of drugs in communities. Over the past two years the Garda National Drugs Unit has coordinated eleven phases of Operation Clean-street...

Written Answers — Illegal Immigrants: Illegal Immigrants (15 Mar 2012)

Alan Shatter: A total of 21 persons, subject to Deportation Orders issued following due process, were removed from Ireland and returned to Lagos, Nigeria on 7th March, 2012 in accordance with the law. The individuals in question were all failed asylum seekers or persons otherwise found to be in breach of their permission to be in the State. A number of the deportees had been convicted of serious criminal...

Written Answers — Spent Convictions: Spent Convictions (15 Mar 2012)

Alan Shatter: There is currently no provision in Irish Law allowing for the expunging of a conviction acquired by a person. The only exception to the general situation relates to Section 258 of the Children Act 2001, which provides for non-disclosure of certain findings of guilt made in relation to persons under 18 years of age. However, the Deputy may wish to note that drafting of a Criminal Justice...

Written Answers — Criminal Investigations: Criminal Investigations (15 Mar 2012)

Alan Shatter: I propose to answer Questions Nos. 101 and 102 together. I am informed by the Garda authorities that the investigations into Anglo Irish Bank by An Garda Síochána and the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement (ODCE) are ongoing with a full investigation team employed at the Garda Bureau of Fraud Investigation. I am further informed that there are currently 25 Garda personnel...

Written Answers — Residency Permits: Residency Permits (15 Mar 2012)

Alan Shatter: In relation to the matter of residency and naturalisation, I am informed that there is no record of any application from the person referred to in the Deputy's question.

Written Answers — Residency Permits: Residency Permits (15 Mar 2012)

Alan Shatter: I am advised by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) that the person in question currently has permission to reside in the State arising from her marriage to an Irish national up until 14 April 2012. In order to renew this permission, the person concerned should attend with her Irish spouse at her local registration office two weeks prior to the expiry date of her current...

Written Answers — Asylum Support Services: Asylum Support Services (15 Mar 2012)

Alan Shatter: The Reception and Integration Agency (RIA) is responsible for the accommodation of asylum seekers in accordance with the Government policy of direct provision and dispersal. The person referred to in the details supplied is currently availing of direct provision accommodation as a single person at Kinsale Road accommodation centre in Cork. The details supplied state that this person's spouse...

Written Answers — Residency Permits: Residency Permits (15 Mar 2012)

Alan Shatter: The person concerned entered the State on a C-Visit Visa on 18 September 2008 and was granted leave to remain in the State until 19 October 2008. The daughter of the person concerned wrote to the Immigration Division of my Department on 7 October 2008 seeking, on behalf of her father, an extension of his permission to remain in the State. Following consideration of this request, my...

Written Answers — Residency Permits: Residency Permits (15 Mar 2012)

Alan Shatter: I wish to advise the Deputy that it is not for my Department to decide whether or not a foreign marriage is in conformity with Irish law. I am advised by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS), that the person concerned submitted an application for EU Treaty Rights as the partner of an EU citizen, which was refused on 6th March 2012. This was due to the fact that insufficient...

Written Answers — Residency Permits: Residency Permits (15 Mar 2012)

Alan Shatter: Arising from the refusal of his asylum application, and in accordance with the provisions of Section 3 of the Immigration Act 1999 (as amended), the person concerned was notified, by letter dated 24 October 2010, that the then Minister proposed to make a Deportation Order in respect of him. He was given the options, to be exercised within 15 working days, of leaving the State voluntarily, of...

Written Answers — Residency Permits: Residency Permits (15 Mar 2012)

Alan Shatter: Arising from the refusal of her asylum application, and in accordance with the provisions of Section 3 of the Immigration Act 1999 (as amended), the person concerned was notified, by letter dated 20 June 2007, that the then Minister proposed to make a Deportation Order in respect of her. She was given the options, to be exercised within 15 working days, of leaving the State voluntarily, of...

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (15 Mar 2012)

Alan Shatter: I propose to take Questions Nos. 110 to 113, inclusive, together. The family leave entitlements that currently apply to parents or adoptive parents of a child are outlined in the Maternity Protection Acts 1998 and 2004, the Parental Leave Acts 1998 and 2006 and the Adoptive Leave Acts 1995 and 2005. My Department is currently preparing proposals for legislation to transpose Council Directive...

Written Answers — Military Medals: Military Medals (15 Mar 2012)

Alan Shatter: The position is that the Department of Defence receives requests from time to time for the replacement of lost, stolen or destroyed medals awarded to Veterans of the 1916 Rising and the War of Independence. In relation to such requests, it has been settled policy for many years that replacement medals were issued on a once-off only basis on receipt of a bona fide request from the veteran to...

Written Answers — Defence Forces Reserve: Defence Forces Reserve (14 Mar 2012)

Alan Shatter: The Defence Forces are comprised of both the Permanent Defence Force and the Reserve Defence Force. The primary role of the Reserve Defence Force is to provide a capacity to augment the Permanent Defence Force, the State's regular force, in the event of a major crisis. In this context, members of the Reserve Defence Force may be called out on permanent service or in aid to the civil power,...

Written Answers — Overseas Missions: Overseas Missions (14 Mar 2012)

Alan Shatter: The Defence Forces are primarily deployed on overseas missions in support of international peace and security under UN mandates. On 20 December 2001, the UN Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 1386 under Chapter VII of the UN Charter, authorising the establishment of an International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan. Ireland has participated in the NATO–led UN...

Written Answers — Defence Forces Property: Defence Forces Property (14 Mar 2012)

Alan Shatter: The Defence property portfolio is kept under review to ensure the most effective use of military resources having regard to the roles assigned by Government to the Defence Forces. As the Deputy is aware, on 15th November 2011, the Government approved a proposal from me to proceed with a further phase of consolidation of Defence Forces personnel into fewer locations with the closure of four...

Written Answers — Defence Forces Personnel: Defence Forces Personnel (14 Mar 2012)

Alan Shatter: The most recent discussions I had with Defence Forces representative associations was on December the 12th last when he met with both the Representative Association of Commissioned Officers (RACO) and the Permanent Defence Force Other Ranks Representative Association (PDFORRA) at separate meetings. At these meetings on the 12th of December the Representative Associations raised a number of...

Written Answers — Overseas Missions: Overseas Missions (14 Mar 2012)

Alan Shatter: In 2010 the Government approved Ireland's participation in the Austro-German Battlegroup, which will be on stand-by for the second six months of 2012. The other members of the Austro-German Battlegroup are Austria, Germany, Czech Republic, Croatia and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM). Each country contributing to this or any other Battlegroup pays its own costs. However,...