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Crime Levels (7 Oct 2010)

Dermot Ahern: The WHO figures refer to a cohort of people aged between 19 and 35. A substantial number of people in that cohort who were killed during the period in question were killed not as a result of knife crime, but as a result of gangland crime. It is wrong to say this has nothing to do with gangland crime. Concerning knife crime, when I became Minister, we looked very closely at the epidemic of...

Crime Levels (7 Oct 2010)

Dermot Ahern: As to the effectiveness of the campaign, only time will tell. Obviously, knife crime continues. There is a problem with a knife. In the Department we examined whether there was any way of banning knives as offensive weapons. The fact is that a knife from any kitchen press is a dangerous implement. An innocent knife used for cutting bread can become an offensive weapon within seconds. It...

Crime Levels (7 Oct 2010)

Dermot Ahern: With regard to the continuance of the awareness campaign, my understand is that it is ongoing, but I will relay the Deputy's comments on the need for gardaí to liaise with schools, etc. I understand that this was part of the campaign but I shall bring his comments to the attention of the Garda Commissioner.

Crime Levels (7 Oct 2010)

Dermot Ahern: I would hazard a guess that a more accurate figure may be gleaned from the CSO crime statistics rather than medical certificates. Sometimes a death by knife could be recorded, for instance, but this might not necessarily be a crime. It could refer to an injury that occurred accidentally. That is one instance, perhaps, of a more accurate gauge of crime statistics.

Deportation Orders (7 Oct 2010)

Dermot Ahern: Under section 3 of the Immigration Act 1999, the Minister for Justice and Law Reform may make a deportation order that requires any foreign national specified in the order to leave the State within such period as may be specified in the order and to remain thereafter out of the State. Thus, a deportation order is a requirement imposed on a person to leave the State and to remain outside of...

Deportation Orders (7 Oct 2010)

Dermot Ahern: I gave the figures earlier for voluntary returns. These refer to people notified to the Department as going. Any social welfare benefits and otherwise they might have been in receipt of would cease from that point onwards. In some instances the GNIB in Ennis would have facilitated their return. The figures are 529 persons in 2008, 539 in 2009 and 286 up to 31 August 2010. Equally, there...

Deportation Orders (7 Oct 2010)

Dermot Ahern: There were 286 up to the end of August.

Deportation Orders (7 Oct 2010)

Dermot Ahern: On a point of clarification, the voluntary returns might not necessarily have been served. They might have been about to be served with a deportation order.

Deportation Orders (7 Oct 2010)

Dermot Ahern: No, I am not.

Deportation Orders (7 Oct 2010)

Dermot Ahern: I said what I did in order to give the House the fullest of pictures.

Deportation Orders (7 Oct 2010)

Dermot Ahern: I do not accept that.

Deportation Orders (7 Oct 2010)

Dermot Ahern: I gave the Deputy the figures in relation to the number of deportation orders signed and effected. Then I said that in those years there were also voluntary returns. I said, "So as to give the House the full picture I should also add that in the period in question so many voluntary returns...", and then there was the issue in relation to the free movement of persons. I was trying to give...

Deportation Orders (7 Oct 2010)

Dermot Ahern: If it is so easy to do the maths, why then should I try to mislead the House? What I was trying to do was to give the fullest of pictures with regard to those people who are in the system and who have left the State-----

Deportation Orders (7 Oct 2010)

Dermot Ahern: -----either noticed or unnoticed by the State.

Deportation Orders (7 Oct 2010)

Dermot Ahern: That is a change for the Deputy.

Deportation Orders (7 Oct 2010)

Dermot Ahern: I do not have the figure for the proportion of those returning voluntarily who had been served with a deportation order. With regard to the mode of return, when a person is issued with a notice of intention to deport - the 15-day letter - he or she is given the option, among others, of returning voluntarily to his or her country and is provided with contact details of the International...

Deportation Orders (7 Oct 2010)

Dermot Ahern: A target of 145 returnees was set under the new programme, which runs from March 2010 to February 2011.

Deportation Orders (7 Oct 2010)

Dermot Ahern: I do not have any information on travel agents.

Deportation Orders (7 Oct 2010)

Dermot Ahern: I understand that is organised directly with the IOM and not through my Department.

Prison Building Programme (7 Oct 2010)

Dermot Ahern: The need to modernise the prison estate and replace Mountjoy Prison has been well documented by both the Inspector of Prisons and Places of Detention and the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. The prison development at Thornton Hall remains a cornerstone of our prison modernisation programme. The Government recently approved the...