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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Operations (7 Nov 2017)

Charles Flanagan: While the deployment of Garda resources is an operational matter for Garda management, I want to assure the Deputy that I am very much aware of the impact of crime on rural communities, including the serious damage perpetrated by organised gangs in rural areas, particularly in terms of burglary and other property-related crime. I am informed that Garda activities in relation to Operation Thor...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Commercial Rates Exemptions (26 Oct 2017)

Charles Flanagan: The Valuation Acts 2001 to 2015 provide for the valuation of all commercial and industrial property for rating purposes. The Commissioner of Valuation is independent in the performance of his statutory functions and the making of valuations for rating purposes is his sole responsibility. I, as Minister for Justice and Equality, have no role in decisions in this regard. Under Irish law there...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Controls (26 Oct 2017)

Charles Flanagan: I can assure the Deputy that racial profiling is not a feature of Irish immigration control. There is no selection of persons at passport control. Every non-national arriving to the State by sea or air is required to present to an immigration officer and is required to produce a valid identity document or passport. Passenger arriving by air or sea will have some interaction...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic Violence Services Funding (26 Oct 2017)

Charles Flanagan: Details of the funding provided by my Department to organisations supporting victims of domestic violence for the period 2011-2017 to date, as at 13 October, 2017, is appended in Table 1. Please note that the table also includes information on the provision of funding to support domestic violence perpetrator programmes whose work remit incorporates the provision of supports to partners/ex...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Victim Support Services (26 Oct 2017)

Charles Flanagan: The Deputy will appreciate that funding is not generally allocated to counties per se. However, details of funding provided through various schemes to projects located in County Louth in the timeframe specified by the Deputy are set out in the following table. 2011 Project Name/Type Location/Organisation Amount € Court accompaniment for female victims of domestic violence...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Operations (26 Oct 2017)

Charles Flanagan: I have sought a report from the Garda authorities in relation to the issues raised and I will respond directly to the Deputy when the report is to hand. I want to assure the Deputy that I am very much aware of the impact of crime on rural communities, including the serious damage done by organised gangs who target rural areas to engage in burglary and other...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Law Reform Commission Reports (26 Oct 2017)

Charles Flanagan: The position in relation to the matters which the Deputy has raised remains as I have conveyed in my Written Reply to Question No. 182 of 24 October 2017 which I shall therefore reiterate on this occasion. The issue of multi-party litigation was the subject of a Report and recommendations by the Law Reform Commission in 2005 (LRC 76-2005) as the Deputy has mentioned. The Report was not...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Bodies Membership (26 Oct 2017)

Charles Flanagan: I believe the Deputy is referring to the 2017 International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) Conference which was held in Philadelphia from 21 to 24 October 2017. My Department was not represented at the Conference. I am aware however, that in common with previous years, both the Garda Síochána and the Policing Authority were represented at the conference, as was the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Stations (26 Oct 2017)

Charles Flanagan: The Deputy will appreciate that the programme of replacement and refurbishment of Garda accommodation is progressed by the Garda authorities working in close cooperation with the Office of Public Works (OPW), which has responsibility for the provision and maintenance of Garda accommodation. This includes identifying and progressing any necessary remedial or refurbishment works required at...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigrant Investor Programme Administration (26 Oct 2017)

Charles Flanagan: I am advised by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) of my Department that a limited internal review of the Immigrant Investor Programme (IIP)  was concluded in Q3 2017. It was highlighted that as applications to the IIP had only gained momentum in the second half of 2016,  it would be difficult to carry out an in depth evaluation and draw useful conclusions at...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Family Reunification Applications (26 Oct 2017)

Charles Flanagan: I am advised by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) of my Department that the person referred to by the Deputy is resident here on the basis of an extension of student permission, as an exceptional measure, to allow the person to seek an employment permit-based permission. This temporary permission is due to come to an end in January 2018. There is no family reunification...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Applications (26 Oct 2017)

Charles Flanagan: I am advised by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) of my Department that the person referred to by the Deputy married an Irish National in January 2017 and in March 2017 made an application to INIS for permission to remain in the State, as the spouse of an Irish National. I understand that a request for documentation issued to the person concerned on 09 October...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (26 Oct 2017)

Charles Flanagan: I am advised by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) of my Department that the first person referred to by the Deputy was granted Long Term Residency (stamp 4) on 03 February 2009 for five years. INIS did not receive an application for renewal of this Long Term Residency permission (stamp 4). This person, however, currently holds a Stamp 1 permission to remain in the State...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (26 Oct 2017)

Charles Flanagan: I am advised by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) of my Department that in respect of the first person mentioned by the Deputy, their last immigration permission expired on 28 June 2013. Subsequent to this date, there is no further immigration record of them residing in the State. Regarding the second person mentioned by the Deputy, INIS advise me that their last...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (26 Oct 2017)

Charles Flanagan: I am advised by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) of my Department that the application for the Reactivation of Employment Permit Permission for the person concerned remains under consideration. INIS will be in contact with the person concerned in due course. Queries in relation to the status of individual immigration cases may be made directly to the INIS of my...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (26 Oct 2017)

Charles Flanagan: I am informed by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) of my Department that they received a request from the person concerned, in January 2015, to regularise their residency status in the State. INIS wrote directly to them, at their last known address, on three separate occasions. No response was received to these requests. INIS will issue a further letter to this...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (26 Oct 2017)

Charles Flanagan: I am advised by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) of my Department that the persons concerned had their permission to remain in the State renewed for a further one year period to 14 December 2017. This decision was conveyed in writing to the persons concerned by letters dated 13 December 2016. This permission was renewed to enable the persons concerned to obtain a valid...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (26 Oct 2017)

Charles Flanagan: I am advised by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) of my Department that the person concerned applied for residence permission and a right to work based on their parentage of an Irish citizen child on 03 October 2017. The Deputy will appreciate that applications are dealt with in chronological order. If further information or documentation is required, the person...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (26 Oct 2017)

Charles Flanagan: The Deputy will be aware that, if an application for asylum or subsidiary protection has been made in the State, for confidentiality reasons it is not the practice to comment on such applications and the applicant or his/her legal representative should contact the International Protection Office (IPO) or International Protection Appeals Tribunal (IPAT) directly. The IPO may be contacted...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Applications (26 Oct 2017)

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 on-going, with a view to establishing whether the conditions for naturalisation, such as good character and lawful residence, are satisfied. On completion of the necessary processing the...