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Drug Seizures. (7 Nov 2006)

Michael McDowell: ...could be more depraved or more indicative of the total disregard a tiny minority of people in some of our cities have for human life. The people who earlier this year were shooting people on wasteland in Dublin or the people who are letting off weapons in pursuit of feuds in Limerick have no regard for human life and no respect for the law of our land. The gardaí in Limerick are putting...

Written Answers — Visa Applications: Visa Applications (1 Nov 2006)

Michael McDowell: ...of the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, give a non-national a document, or place in his or her passport or other equivalent document an inscription, authorising the non-national to land or be in the State. In performing his or her functions with regard to the granting of a permission to land or remain in the State, pursuant to the provisions of the Immigration Act, 2004, an...

Written Answers — Registration of Title: Registration of Title (25 Oct 2006)

Michael McDowell: I understand that the Land Registry has forwarded the information requested directly to the Deputy. I would like to refer the Deputy to my letter of 26 May, 2006 to members of the Oireachtas regarding a new service for T.D.s and Senators concerning the current status of Land Registry/Registry of Deeds applications. As outlined in my letter, the service was introduced, inter alia, to provide...

Written Answers — State Property: State Property (24 Oct 2006)

Michael McDowell: ...of the Prison Service recently facilitated a request from the Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Manager and his officials to view the property. No detailed discussions on possible future uses of the lands took place nor was the matter raised by the County Manager or his officials. I would like to point out that last year about 21 acres of this site was sold to Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County...

Written Answers — Registration of Title: Registration of Title (24 Oct 2006)

Michael McDowell: I understand that the Land Registry has forwarded the information requested directly to the Deputy. I would like to refer the Deputy to my letter of 26 May, 2006 to members of the Oireachtas regarding a new service for TDs and Senators concerning the current status of Land Registry/Registry of Deeds applications. As outlined in my letter, the service was introduced, inter alia, to provide a...

Written Answers — Drugs in Prisons: Drugs in Prisons (17 Oct 2006)

Michael McDowell: ...as mid -September reached 283. The Medical Unit in the Prison is part used as a Drug Treatment Facility and can accommodate 9 prisoners. In addition to this, there is accommodation on F3 & F4 Landings for a number of offenders to undertake detoxification. While undergoing detoxification, the offenders are under the care of a Prison Doctor and an Addiction Psychiatrist. Over 400 offenders...

Written Answers — Garda Stations: Garda Stations (17 Oct 2006)

Michael McDowell: .... Garda management state that there are plans to refurbish and extend the existing Garda station at Dunmanway and I am informed that the Office of Public Works is finalising the acquisition of land to the rear of the station to enable the planned development works. I should add that the current recruitment drive to increase the strength of the Garda Síochána to 14,000 members, in line...

Written Answers — Registration of Title: Registration of Title (12 Oct 2006)

Michael McDowell: I am pleased to be able to inform the Deputy that the Land Registry has responded successfully to the continued growth in applications arising from a very active property market. Staffing levels are kept under ongoing review, having regard to overall Government policy on public service numbers, but significant productivity improvements have also been realised, reflecting the Registry's...

Written Answers — Prison Building Programme: Prison Building Programme (5 Oct 2006)

Michael McDowell: ...not state that too much was paid for Thornton. Rather, to quote his main conclusion, he states that "a well-managed, third party approach might have allowed the Prison Service to procure suitable land at a much lower price than was paid for the land at Thornton". Let us be clear that in this context a "third party approach" means that a site would be acquired in secret. No one would be...

Written Answers — State Property: State Property (3 Oct 2006)

Michael McDowell: ...County Council, sold to that body. The sale was concluded in 2005. I should add also that Prison Service Officials were at the time informed by the Council that it had no interest in the remaining lands, including the buildings, which are now for sale by tender. Officials of the Prison Service recently facilitated a request from the Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Manager and his officials...

Written Answers — Prison Accommodation: Prison Accommodation (3 Oct 2006)

Michael McDowell: ...been closed. One of the cells is being converted into a 4 shower unit for prisoners accommodated in the Base. The other cell is being refurbished to provide one single occupancy cell. A2 and A3 landings of Mountjoy prison are to be re-opened following refurbishment. There are 42 cells on each landing. The re-opening of these landings will result in a significant increase in the number...

Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (3 Oct 2006)

Michael McDowell: ...and the Garda Central Vetting Unit are operational in Tipperary town and Thurles respectively. Further advance moves from Garda HQ are planned for Thurles for the first half of 2007. The Land Registry has recently opened an office in Roscommon town and the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner will relocate to Portarlington in December. The new headquarters building for the Irish...

Prison Accommodation. (3 Oct 2006)

Michael McDowell: ...to accommodate prisoners for the duration of their sentences than was the case in the mid-1990s. This programme has resulted in the building of new prisons such as Cloverhill, Castlerea, the Midlands and the new women's prison at Mountjoy alongside additional accommodation in Limerick and Loughan House. Further accommodation is at an advanced stage of construction at Portlaoise Prison,...

Prison Accommodation. (3 Oct 2006)

Michael McDowell: .... I am confident the Accounting Officer of my Department, the Secretary General, Mr. Sean Aylward, will go before that committee and will fully establish a few simple propositions. First, the land is of the value spent on it.

Prison Accommodation. (3 Oct 2006)

Michael McDowell: Second, nobody is in a position to point to any land suitable for a prison at that distance from or nearer to the city of Dublin which has sold or changed hands for a lesser price. Third, the Comptroller and Auditor General did not say €15 million was wasted. He said — let us be clear about it — that if I had agreed to secretly buy the land and not disclose the purpose for which I was...

Prison Accommodation. (3 Oct 2006)

Michael McDowell: ...of my Department came to the conclusion that it would be ethically wrong to send people out to farms that became available without having a fully transparent, advertised process seeking appropriate land for the purpose.

Prison Accommodation. (3 Oct 2006)

Michael McDowell: ...of Public Works, on the basis of an approach which was devised by the Accounting Officer of my Department, will stand up to any scrutiny. I again finish with this question; can anybody show me any land the same or a lesser distance as Thornton Hall from O'Connell Bridge, which has changed hands for less than €200,000 per acre in the past two years? One will not find it because it has...

Prison Accommodation. (3 Oct 2006)

Michael McDowell: No land which was suitable for a prison was sold for the prices in question closer to or the same distance from the city of Dublin. The second matter about which I remind Deputy O'Keeffe relates to his own auctioneering tendencies. It is interesting to note that in July 2005 he stated that five acres of the Thornton Hall farm which was kept back by the vendor was worth €1 million per acre...

Prison Accommodation. (3 Oct 2006)

Michael McDowell: The Deputy is awake now. It is a curious fact that he thinks five acres out of the 160 acres of the original land parcel were worth €5 million when two minutes ago he stated——

Prison Building Programme. (3 Oct 2006)

Michael McDowell: ...state that too much was paid for Thornton Hall. Rather, to quote his main conclusion, he states that "a well-managed, third party approach might have allowed the Prison Service to procure suitable land at a much lower price than was paid for the land at Thornton". Let us be clear that in this context a "third party approach" means that a site would be acquired in secret. No one would be...