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Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (3 Nov 2011)

Alan Shatter: In accordance with relevant legislation, the Irish Red Cross Society is an independent charitable body corporate with full power to manage and administer its own affairs. My Department pays an annual grant to the Society of €951,000 which includes the Government's annual contribution (currently €130,000) to the International Committee of the Red Cross. The balance of the grant goes...

Written Answers — Defence Forces Personnel: Defence Forces Personnel (3 Nov 2011)

Alan Shatter: In June last the Government decided that the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine would chair a Working Group to oversee the clean-up of the former Ispat site on Haulbowline Island. Cork County Council are acting as an agent of that Department on the technical aspects of an application to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for a landfill licence. The preparation of the...

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (3 Nov 2011)

Alan Shatter: I propose to take Questions Nos. 127 and 128 together. The cost of issuing payslips to all employees and pensioners paid by me (including cheques/payslips) for 2010 was in the region of €137k. The number of employees who received hard copy payslips for the year 2010 is as follows: · Defence Forces Personnel 9,746 · Defence Forces Reserve 3,170 (occasional payments) · Defence Forces...

Written Answers — Ambulance Service: Ambulance Service (3 Nov 2011)

Alan Shatter: The Department of Health is responsible for policy formation in respect of pre-hospital emergency care, and the Health Service Executive, (HSE) has statutory responsibility for the provision of ambulance services throughout the State. The role of the Air Corps as set out in the White Paper on Defence is to provide a range of military and non-military services in support of the State. These...

Written Answers — Criminal Prosecutions: Criminal Prosecutions (2 Nov 2011)

Alan Shatter: I understand the Deputy's question to relate to the investigation and/or prosecution of the moneylending offences provided for in Part VIII of the Consumer Credit Act 1995. In this regard, I am informed by the Garda authorities that where such offences are reported to An Garda Síochána the matter is the subject of investigation under the direction of local Garda District officers with...

Written Answers — Criminal Prosecutions: Criminal Prosecutions (2 Nov 2011)

Alan Shatter: Following the submission in 2004 of a report and recommendations by an expert group on crime statistics, it was decided that the compilation and publication of crime statistics should be taken over by the Central Statistics Office, as the national statistical agency, from An Garda Síochána. The Garda Síochána Act 2005 consequently makes provision for this and the CSO has established a...

Written Answers — UN Conventions: UN Conventions (2 Nov 2011)

Alan Shatter: I propose to take Questions Nos. 319 and 350 together. It is the Government's intention to ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities as quickly as possible, taking into account the need to ensure that all necessary legislative and administrative requirements under the Convention are being met. As the Deputy may be aware, Ireland does not become party to treaties...

Written Answers — Road Safety: Road Safety (2 Nov 2011)

Alan Shatter: In November, 2009 a contract was concluded for the provision of an outsourced safety camera network to An Garda Síochána, as excessive or inappropriate speeding is a major factor in road traffic collisions and fatalities. The objective of the safety camera network is to reduce the number of speed related collisions and so save lives and prevent serious injury, not to generate revenue. I am...

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (2 Nov 2011)

Alan Shatter: I refer the Deputy to my reply to Question Number 40 of 25 October, 2011 which indicated the following: In line with a commitment in the Programme for Government the Personal Insolvency Bill is in the course of being developed in my Department to provide for a new framework for settlement and enforcement of debt and for personal insolvency. The commitment under the EU/IMF Programme of...

Written Answers — Garda Stations: Garda Stations (2 Nov 2011)

Alan Shatter: The formulation of proposals in relation to the provision of services by An Garda Síochána at specific locations is a matter, in the first instance, for the Garda Commissioner. The Garda authorities have advised me that a number of Garda public offices have been established within the Navan Garda District. These offices are open to the public for a number of hours each week and I understand...

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (2 Nov 2011)

Alan Shatter: I propose to take Questions Nos. 323 and 356 together. As the Deputy will be aware, earlier this year I forwarded outline proposals in relation to the abolition of upward only rent reviews clauses in existing business leases to the Attorney General for examination and development. I am giving further consideration to those proposals in the light of the most recent advices of the Attorney...

Written Answers — Deportation Orders: Deportation Orders (2 Nov 2011)

Alan Shatter: The person concerned is a failed asylum applicant. 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 30th March, 2010, that the then Minister proposed to make a Deportation Order in respect of her. She was given the options, to be exercised within...

Written Answers — Deportation Orders: Deportation Orders (2 Nov 2011)

Alan Shatter: The person concerned is a failed asylum applicant. 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 15th August, 2007, that the then Minister proposed to make a Deportation Order in respect of him. He was given the options, to be exercised within...

Written Answers — Residency Permits: Residency Permits (2 Nov 2011)

Alan Shatter: I have been informed by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service that a letter granting stamp 2 student status issued to this person's legal representatives on 25 October 2011. This is the appropriate permission for the person mentioned by the Deputy.

Written Answers — Citizenship Applications: Citizenship Applications (2 Nov 2011)

Alan Shatter: An application for a certificate of naturalisation from the person referred to in the Deputy's Question was received in the Citizenship Section of my Department in November 2010. On examination of the application submitted, it was determined that the application be returned in its entirety to the person concerned for further attention on 23 November, 2010. In order to be fair to all...

Written Answers — Deportation Orders: Deportation Orders (2 Nov 2011)

Alan Shatter: The person concerned arrived in the State on 1st September, 2005 and applied for asylum on the following day. Her application was refused following consideration of her case by the Office of the Refugee Applications Commissioner and, on appeal, the Refugee Appeals Tribunal. Subsequently, in accordance with the provisions of Section 3 of the Immigration Act 1999 (as amended), the person...

Written Answers — Residency Permits: Residency Permits (2 Nov 2011)

Alan Shatter: I refer the Deputy to my reply to Parliamentary Question No. 685 of 14 September 2011 which is set out below. The person referred to in that reply has registered with the Garda National Immigration Bureau. Regarding her daughter, a representative of INIS wrote to her legal representatives on 2 September 2011 to request further documentation. Upon receipt of the requested documentation, her...

Written Answers — Citizenship Applications: Citizenship Applications (2 Nov 2011)

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 — Residency Permits: Residency Permits (2 Nov 2011)

Alan Shatter: I have been informed by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service that the person referred to by the Deputy arrived in the State as a student on 13 September 2009 and that their current student conditions expired on 3 October 2011. This person is advised to write to the General Immigration section in INIS clearly setting out full details of their case.

Written Answers — Constitutional Amendments: Constitutional Amendments (2 Nov 2011)

Alan Shatter: As the Deputy is aware, the proposed amendment to Article 35.5, which was approved by the Irish people last Thursday, retains the general protection that judges' pay should not be reduced except in the circumstances set out in the amendment, i.e., by law when the pay of public servants is reduced by law in the public interest. Only then can the pay of serving judges be reduced...