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Written Answers — Departmental Correspondence. : Departmental Correspondence. (24 Feb 2005)

Michael McDowell: A reply has now issued to the correspondence referred to by the Deputy.

Written Answers — Garda Stations. : Garda Stations. (24 Feb 2005)

Michael McDowell: I have been informed by the Garda authorities who are responsible for the detailed allocation of resources, including personnel, that a decision on the current and future requirements for gardaí at Tallaght is, as conveyed to the Deputy on 5 October 2004, presently under consideration.

Written Answers — Visa Applications. : Visa Applications. (24 Feb 2005)

Michael McDowell: I wish to confirm that visa application reference numbers 1582697 and 1644599 were approved on appeal on 10 May 2004 and 19 January 2005. The Department of Foreign Affairs was notified accordingly.

Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (24 Feb 2005)

Michael McDowell: The eight year period the Deputy is inquiring about spans two separate programmes, the most recent of which, the Equal Opportunities Childcare Programme, EOCP, 2000-2006, is a seven year child care development programme. The earlier child care funding from my Department, up to 1999, made available a range of supports for community-based child care, including capital funding for over 100...

Written Answers — Registration of Title: Registration of Title (24 Feb 2005)

Michael McDowell: I am informed by the Registrar of Titles that there is no record of an application pending on this folio at present. If the Deputy can provide me with the date of lodgement of the application and a Land Registry reference number I will make further inquiries on his behalf.

Written Answers — Citizenship Applications: Citizenship Applications (24 Feb 2005)

Michael McDowell: I assume the Deputy's question arises in the context of the acknowledgement of correspondence issued by my Department on 24 January 2005. The correspondence in question comprises five pages and deals with a dispute which the person in question is having with the Revenue Commissioners, the circumstances giving rise to that dispute and the extent to which the conduct of the Revenue...

Written Answers — Visa Applications: Visa Applications (24 Feb 2005)

Michael McDowell: When a person arrives in the State on foot of a visit visa and is granted a period of permission to remain it is expected that the person would leave the State when the permission expires. In this case the person in question did not leave the State but instead made an application for residency as indicated in the answer to Question No. 765 of 26 January 2005. The residency application will be...

Written Answers — Visa Applications: Visa Applications (24 Feb 2005)

Michael McDowell: In my response to Question No. 765 on 26 January last, I informed the Deputy that an application for leave to remain by the person in question had been received in my Department in December 2004 and would take 16 months to finalise. In November 2004, a declaration of acceptance of Irish citizenship as post-nuptial citizenship was lodged with the citizenship section of my Department. The...

Written Answers — Disability Support Service: Disability Support Service (23 Feb 2005)

Michael McDowell: The funding is part of the multi-annual investment programme for disability announced in the budget. A sum of €15 million will be available for voluntary sector projects between 2005-2009 with the first tranche of €3 million in 2005. This fund is intended to support innovative, efficient and cost effective approaches to disability services and to help provide examples of effective service...

Written Answers — Visa Applications: Visa Applications (23 Feb 2005)

Michael McDowell: The applications referred to by the Deputy were refused by my Department on 15 of February 2005. For the most part, the reasons for refusal related to the visa officer being unable to establish, based on the documentation supplied, that the applicants would observe the conditions of the visa applied for, or that the applicants had demonstrated sufficient evidence of their obligations to...

Written Answers — Citizenship Applications: Citizenship Applications (23 Feb 2005)

Michael McDowell: A declaration of acceptance of Irish citizenship as post nuptial citizenship was received in the citizenship section of my Department on 16 December 2004 from the person referred to in the Deputy's question. The current processing time for such declarations is approximately ten months from the date of lodgement and it is likely, therefore, that the processing of the declaration of the person...

Written Answers — Disability Support Service: Disability Support Service (23 Feb 2005)

Michael McDowell: My Department has, to date, received 44 submissions from various organisations in respect of the Disability Bill 2004 most of which were received via the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Equality, Defence and Women's Rights. As a member of that committee, the Deputy will be aware that the views of 34 of the groups concerned, four of which also sent submissions to the Department, were...

Written Answers — Departmental Correspondence: Departmental Correspondence (23 Feb 2005)

Michael McDowell: I expect that the Deputy will by now have received my recent response to him in relation to the matter he has raised.

Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) Bill 2002: From the Seanad (Resumed). (23 Feb 2005)

Michael McDowell: It comes down to workability. Having taken this unilateral stance when the framework decision was adopted, we wanted it to be clear that we were not agreeing to a proposition that mere suspects could be arrested in Ireland whatever other countries wanted to do and that warrants would only be used to remove people to foreign states on the basis that a decision had been made to arrest, charge...

Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) Bill 2002: From the Seanad (Resumed). (23 Feb 2005)

Michael McDowell: It is difficult. We do not want it to be the case that if a European member state has a system where people can be arrested, subjected to the criminal law process and deprived of their liberty on mere suspicion and without a decision to charge them, it can as an extension require any Irish citizen anywhere in Ireland to be plucked from his or her job and brought to that state in custody...

Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) Bill 2002: From the Seanad (Resumed). (23 Feb 2005)

Michael McDowell: I will address the last point first. We are dealing with a situation that exists at the moment; nothing dramatically new is about to take place. Under this provision, the Garda Commissioner will be in a position to make a formal request to every service provider carrying out a volume of business of interest to the Garda. In those circumstances the service providers will be obliged to keep the...

Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) Bill 2002: From the Seanad (Resumed). (23 Feb 2005)

Michael McDowell: The main service providers have received direction from the Minister.

Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) Bill 2002: From the Seanad (Resumed). (23 Feb 2005)

Michael McDowell: Data of this kind are in any event of independent use and a necessity for a service provider. For example, if I were to get an enormous bill next month which I query, the service provider must be in a position to outline the occasions on which my phone was used to contact specific chat lines. It must be in a position to stand up its claim for money. At the end of a billing period it must be...

Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) Bill 2002: From the Seanad (Resumed). (23 Feb 2005)

Michael McDowell: Any telecommunications service provider must keep this kind of material to avoid being at the mercy of any subscriber who could claim that the bill was a complete invention and that the provider's machine had gone mad and was just thinking up bills to throw at a subscriber. These data already exist. If people want to contest their bills or claim that something extraordinary has happened,...

Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) Bill 2002: From the Seanad (Resumed). (23 Feb 2005)

Michael McDowell: This amendment was discussed substantially.