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Written Answers — Human Rights Issues: Human Rights Issues (5 Jul 2007)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: Legislation creating an offence of recruiting, transporting, transferring to another person, harbouring or knowingly arranging or facilitating the entry into, travel within or departure from the State of a person for the specific purpose of the trafficked person's sexual or labour exploitation or removal of his or her organs is at present being drafted in the Office of the Parliamentary...

Written Answers — Residency Permits: Residency Permits (5 Jul 2007)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: The persons in question were granted permission to remain in the State on 24th February, 2006 for a period of one year, under the revised arrangements for parents of Irish children born prior to 1st January, 2005, commonly referred to as the IBC/05 Scheme. Applications for renewal of their permission to remain in the State were received by my Department in March 2007 and are currently under...

Written Answers — Residency Permits: Residency Permits (5 Jul 2007)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: I refer the Deputy to Parliamentary Question No.122 of 29 March 2007 (ref: 12195/07) and the written reply to that Question. The position is unchanged.

Written Answers — Asylum Applications: Asylum Applications (5 Jul 2007)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: The person concerned arrived in the State on 21 June, 2002 and applied for asylum. His application was refused following consideration of his case by the Office of the Refugee Applications Commissioner and, on appeal, by the Refugee Appeals Tribunal. The person concerned was informed by letter dated 14 April, 2003, that the Minister proposed to make a deportation order in respect of him and...

Written Answers — Residency Permits: Residency Permits (5 Jul 2007)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: The person concerned arrived in the State on 01 March 2001 and applied for asylum. Her application was refused following consideration of her case by the Office of the Refugee Applications Commissioner. She failed to appeal the decision within the specified timeframe therefore the Refugee Appeals Tribunal did not consider her application. Subsequently, in accordance with Section 3 of the...

Written Answers — Residency Permits: Residency Permits (5 Jul 2007)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: Minor children under the age of sixteen who are in the care of non EU national parents who have been granted permission to remain in the State under the IBC/05 scheme, avail of the same permission to remain in the State as that granted to their parents. When such minor children reach sixteen years of age they are obliged to register with the Garda National Immigration Bureau or their local...

Written Answers — Residency Permits: Residency Permits (5 Jul 2007)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: I am informed by the Immigration Division of my Department that the person in question made an application for Family Reunification on behalf of his mother in May 2007. He then made a further application on behalf of his wife and child in June 2007. These applications have been forwarded to the Refugee Applications Commissioner for investigation as required under section 18 of the Refugee...

Written Answers — Residency Permits: Residency Permits (5 Jul 2007)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: I am informed by the Immigration Division of my Department that the Family Reunification applications from the person in question were refused on the 26th June 2007 and a letter outlining the reasons for the refusals issued on the same date. There is no provision under Section 18 of the Refugee Act 1996 to appeal the decision of an application for Family Reunification.

Written Answers — Residency Permits: Residency Permits (5 Jul 2007)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: I am informed by the Immigration Division of my Department that the person referred to by the Deputy should now attend his local Immigration Office, in order to have the appropriate permission to remain endorsed in his passport.

Written Answers — Residency Permits: Residency Permits (5 Jul 2007)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: The persons in question applied for permission to remain in the State on the basis of being parents of an Irish child, born prior to 1st January, 2005 in accordance with the revised arrangements announced on 15th January 2005, commonly referred to as the IBC/05 scheme. A requirement of the revised arrangements was that each applicant parent resided with their Irish born child in the State on...

Written Answers — Residency Permits: Residency Permits (5 Jul 2007)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: The person concerned arrived in the State on 04 February 2005 and applied for asylum. Her application was refused following consideration of her case by the Office of the Refugee Applications Commissioner and, on appeal, by the Refugee Appeals Tribunal. I refer the Deputy to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 99 of Thursday, 26th April 2007, 200 of Wednesday 22nd November 2006, 93 of Thursday,...

Written Answers — Residency Permits: Residency Permits (5 Jul 2007)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: I refer the Deputy to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 99 of Thursday, 26th April 2007, 200 of Wednesday 22nd November 2006, 93 of Thursday, 9th November 2006, 440 of Wednesday, 27th September 2006 and 240 of Thursday, 25th May 2006 and the written reply to those Questions. The position is unchanged.

Written Answers — Residency Permits: Residency Permits (5 Jul 2007)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: The person concerned arrived in the State on 17 June 1998 and applied for asylum. His application was refused following consideration of his case by the Office of the Refugee Applications Commissioner and, on appeal, by the Refugee Appeals Tribunal. In accordance with Section 3 of the Immigration Act, 1999, as amended, he was informed by letter dated 24 October 2000, that the Minister...

Written Answers — Residency Permits: Residency Permits (5 Jul 2007)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: I am informed by the Immigration Division of my Department that the person in question made a Family Reunification application in October 2006. The application was forwarded to the Refugee Applications Commissioner for investigation as required under Section 18 of the Refugee Act 1996. This investigation has been completed and the Commissioner has forwarded a report to my Department. This...

Written Answers — Asylum Applications: Asylum Applications (5 Jul 2007)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: It is not the practice to comment in detail on individual asylum applications. As the Deputy will be aware, applications for refugee status in the State are determined by an independent process comprising the Office of the Refugee Applications Commissioner and the Refugee Appeals Tribunal which make recommendations to the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform on whether such status...

Written Answers — Joint Policing Committees: Joint Policing Committees (4 Jul 2007)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: I propose to take Questions Nos. 161 and 169 together. The Garda Síochána Act 2005 provides for the establishment of a joint policing committee in each local authority administrative area. The purpose of these committees is to provide a forum where members of a local authority and the senior Garda officers responsible for the policing of that area, with the participation of Oireachtas...

Written Answers — Garda Stations: Garda Stations (4 Jul 2007)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: In accordance with section 22 of the Garda Síochána Act 2005, the formulation of proposals in relation to the opening and closing of Garda stations is a matter, in the first instance, for the Garda Commissioner in the context of the annual policing plan. I have been informed by the Garda Authorities that they have made no decision regarding additional Garda stations for the Dublin 15 area...

Written Answers — Prison Building Programme: Prison Building Programme (4 Jul 2007)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: My predecessor advised that he was prepared to consider an alternative access route to the prison site at Thornton if local landowners made land available at a reasonable price. Negotiations have been entered into in this context but for reasons of commercial sensitivity I am not in a position to give any detailed information at this stage.

Written Answers — Court Sittings: Court Sittings (4 Jul 2007)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: The question of extra judicial resources in the Northern Circuit or in the Donegal District is a matter, in the first instance, for consideration by the Presidents of the Circuit and District Courts respectively. I will be guided by the Presidents of the Courts as to the need for additional permanently assigned judges. The Presidents have at their disposal unassigned judges who can be used...

Written Answers — Crime Levels: Crime Levels (4 Jul 2007)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: I understand that the Central Statistics Office will contact the Deputy directly in the near future with the information requested.