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Written Answers — Garda Strength: Garda Strength (29 Sep 2010)

Dermot Ahern: The allocation of resources in An Garda Síochána, including the distribution of personnel, is a matter for the Commissioner and senior Garda Management and it is the responsibility of the Divisional Officer to allocate personnel within each Division or national unit. I am informed by the Commissioner that there are a total of one hundred and eight nine (189) members of the Garda Síochána...

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (29 Sep 2010)

Dermot Ahern: I regret the delay in reverting to the Deputy in response to his earlier Question. Details of the total expenditure incurred by the Garda National Immigration Bureau on overtime and travel/subsistence in 2008 and 2009 are set out in the table below. A more detailed breakdown of these costs is not available and the Garda authorities have informed me that it could only be provided by the...

Written Answers — Crime Statistics: Crime Statistics (29 Sep 2010)

Dermot Ahern: I am informed that, in response to the Deputy's Question No. 243 of 9 March, 2010, the Central Statistics Office have been in direct contact with him and supplied the information requested.

Written Answers — Asylum Applications: Asylum Applications (29 Sep 2010)

Dermot Ahern: Further to your Parliamentary Question No. 246, the person concerned arrived in the State on 10 March 2004 and applied for asylum on 11 March 2004. The Refugee Applications Commissioner refused her a declaration of refugee status. This decision was subsequently upheld by the Refugee Appeals Tribunal. A Deportation Order was made in respect of her on 20 April 2010. The person concerned...

Written Answers — Residency Permits: Residency Permits (29 Sep 2010)

Dermot Ahern: A fee of €500 for the initial grant of long term residency status was introduced with effect from 7 September 2009. The processing time for Long-Term Residency applications at that date was approximately 21 months. The current processing time is approximately 12 months.

Written Answers — Residency Permits: Residency Permits (29 Sep 2010)

Dermot Ahern: The Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act 1956, as amended, sets out the current law governing naturalisation in the State including provisions setting out the qualifying periods of residence for the purpose of naturalisation. The provisions contained in the Act would have been brought forward with due regard to the spirit of the Good Friday Agreement. While I have no current proposals to...

Written Answers — Residency Permits: Residency Permits (29 Sep 2010)

Dermot Ahern: The Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act 1956, as amended, provides that the Minister for Justice and Law Reform may, in his absolute discretion, grant an application for a certificate of naturalisation provided certain statutory conditions are fulfilled. In the case of an applicant who is the spouse of an Irish citizen those conditions are that the applicant must— be of full age be of...

Written Answers — Commercial Rental Sector: Commercial Rental Sector (29 Sep 2010)

Dermot Ahern: I am very conscious of the problems which confront the commercial rental sector and, at a practical level, I have undertaken to progress the recommendations of the Working Group on transparency in commercial rent reviews which was published in August. Among those recommendations is the adoption, by landlords and tenants alike, of a rent review arbitration code which is intended to achieve a...

Written Answers — Courts Service: Courts Service (29 Sep 2010)

Dermot Ahern: Under the Courts Service Act 1998 responsibility for the operation and management of courthouses is a matter for the Courts Service. Responsibility for the allocation of resources, including personnel, within the Force rests with the Garda Commissioner, in consultation with his senior management team. However I can say that the change made in the Cobh District is on the basis of efficiency...

Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (29 Sep 2010)

Dermot Ahern: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1195 to 1197, inclusive, together. I wish to refer the Deputy to Questions Nos.367 of 6 July 2010, 486 of 22 April 2009, 349 of 9 February 2010 and 128 of 17 February 2010 which provided detailed information on the proposed work of the Property Services Regulatory Authority which will be established on a statutory basis when the Property Services (Regulation)...

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (29 Sep 2010)

Dermot Ahern: I have already initiated change in bankruptcy law by way of the Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2010 by (a) reducing the application period to the court for discharge from bankruptcy from 12 years to 6 years, as recommended by the Law Reform Commission in its interim report on Personal Debt Management and Debt Enforcement,and (b) providing for the automatic discharge of bankruptcies...

Order of Business (29 Sep 2010)

Dermot Ahern: Deputy Rabbitte should go back to "The Frontline".

Seanad: Criminal Procedure Bill 2009 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (13 Jul 2010)

Dermot Ahern: Amendment No. 1 arises from amendment No. 24 which amends the Courts Act 1991. It makes the necessary alterations to the Long Title as a result of an amendment to that Act being added to the Bill. Amendment No. 24 relates to the issuing of bench warrants. It amends section 22(5) of the Courts Act 1991 by deleting the words, "if the complaint or accusation has been substantiated on oath...

Seanad: Criminal Procedure Bill 2009 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (13 Jul 2010)

Dermot Ahern: Amendment No. 2 deletes the word "Equality" from the definition of "Minister" to reflect the recent alteration to the name of the Department and the title of the Minister responsible for it. Amendment No. 3 arises from amendments to Parts 3 and 4 which concern exceptions to the rule against double jeopardy and appeals, respectively. Its purpose is to ensure certain terms in the Bill which...

Seanad: Criminal Procedure Bill 2009 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (13 Jul 2010)

Dermot Ahern: Amendment No. 4 arises from the debate on section 4 in this House. As Senators will recall, section 4 reforms the law relating to victim impact evidence, principally to give the family members of homicide victims the right to make a victim impact statement at the sentencing hearing. The Bill, as published, retained the existing categories of offences to which the victim impact provisions...

Seanad: Criminal Procedure Bill 2009 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (13 Jul 2010)

Dermot Ahern: Amendments Nos. 5, 10 and 12 relate to the tainted acquittal re-trial procedure in section 9. The tainted acquittal re-trial procedure is one of three re-trial procedures in the Bill, the other two being the new evidence re-trial procedure in section 8 and the with-prejudice prosecution appeals avenue in section 23. This set of amendments raises the threshold that must be met before the...

Seanad: Criminal Procedure Bill 2009 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (13 Jul 2010)

Dermot Ahern: Amendments Nos. 6 and 7 concern the definition of "new and compelling evidence". I referred earlier to what we understand by "compelling" in the case of tainted acquittals. This time the definition relates to the procedure in section 8 which permits the DPP to seek an order for a retrial where fresh evidence emerges post-acquittal. Amendment No. 6 is focused on the part of the definition...

Seanad: Criminal Procedure Bill 2009 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (13 Jul 2010)

Dermot Ahern: This set of amendments concerns the scope of the new evidence retrial procedure in section 8 and the tainted acquittal retrial procedure in section 9. The amendments will allow persons charged and sent forward for trial before commencement but tried and acquitted after commencement to be the subject of a retrial application. Only the trial and the acquittal must follow the commencement of...

Seanad: Criminal Procedure Bill 2009 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (13 Jul 2010)

Dermot Ahern: Amendments Nos. 11 and 13 make identical amendments to section 10(1) and (2). Subsection (1) relates to the new evidence retrial applications. It provides that in the event that the court grants the DPP's application and directs that the acquitted person is to be retried, that direction may be subject to any conditions and directions the court considers necessary or expedient to ensure the...

Seanad: Criminal Procedure Bill 2009 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (13 Jul 2010)

Dermot Ahern: These are drafting amendments. Amendment No. 16 is a minor drafting amendment to section 22. It has the effect of replacing "or" with "and" to allow Rules of Court to be made to provide for the expeditious hearing of the retrial applications and of any retrials ordered. Amendment No. 20 corrects a drafting error in section 26(3), namely, the words ", the legal aid (trial on indictment)...