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Order of Business (18 Nov 2010)

Alan Shatter: I withdraw the remark.

Order of Business (18 Nov 2010)

Alan Shatter: No, I have said, Sir, that I will withdraw the remark on the basis of my understanding that the Leader of the Opposition will be allowed to explain why we are opposing the Order of Business.

Order of Business (18 Nov 2010)

Alan Shatter: The Ceann Comhairle is chairing the national Parliament, not a meeting of the Fianna Fáil Parliamentary Party.

Written Answers — Sex Offender Treatment Programme: Sex Offender Treatment Programme (17 Nov 2010)

Alan Shatter: Question 154: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the number of convicted sex offenders presently serving a prison sentence; the location in which the sentence is being served; the treatment programmes for sex offenders presently operating within the prison system and their location; the qualifications and the numbers of persons employed in the provision of such programmes and the...

Written Answers — Sexual Offences: Sexual Offences (17 Nov 2010)

Alan Shatter: Question 68: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 234 of 30 September 2010, if he will provide the information sought in question, and the reason for the continuing delay in the furnishing of the information sought. [42921/10]

Written Answers — Garda Investigations: Garda Investigations (17 Nov 2010)

Alan Shatter: Question 151: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the developments, if any, that have occurred since the answer given by him to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 42, 51 and 56 of 10 December 2009 as a consequence of the Garda assistant commissioner, northern region being appointed to examine the file concerning the original investigation which took place into the matter and suspected...

Written Answers — Gangland Crime: Gangland Crime (17 Nov 2010)

Alan Shatter: Question 153: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to reports that a member of a gang suspected of the killing of a drug dealer (details supplied) obtained a security licence from the Private Security Authority despite having a conviction for gun crime; the steps, if any, he is taking to ensure that members of criminal gangs do not obtain such...

Written Answers — Illicit Trade in Tobacco: Illicit Trade in Tobacco (17 Nov 2010)

Alan Shatter: Question 119: To ask the Minister for Finance the steps he is taking to reduce the amount of smuggling of cigarettes and other tobacco products into the State and to ensure that those found guilty of such offence are properly punished; if he is aware that the average fine for such smuggling in 2010 is less than €600 and if he regards this as appropriate; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Criminal Prosecutions: Criminal Prosecutions (17 Nov 2010)

Alan Shatter: Question 147: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform in the context of the 1,387 mobile telephone seizures in prisons during the first nine months of this year, the number of prosecutions initiated against prisoners as a consequence of the finding and seizure of mobile telephones; the number of prosecutions initiated in 2008 and 2009 following the seizure of mobile telephones in...

Written Answers — Criminal Prosecutions: Criminal Prosecutions (17 Nov 2010)

Alan Shatter: Question 148: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the number of prosecutions that have been initiated against prisoners in the period the 1 January 2010 to the 30 September 2010 as a consequence of the seizure of drugs in prison; the number of such prosecutions initiated in each of the past five years; and the number of convictions obtained in each of the aforesaid periods. [42920/10]

Written Answers — Legal Aid Service: Legal Aid Service (17 Nov 2010)

Alan Shatter: Question 152: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the estimated annual cost to the State of the Legal Aid Board administering the criminal legal aid scheme; if heads of a Bill have yet been prepared to make provision for the Legal Aid Board administering the criminal legal aid scheme; when he expects to publish and circulate the required Bill before the House; and if he will make...

Written Answers — Judicial Appointments: Judicial Appointments (17 Nov 2010)

Alan Shatter: Question 155: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform if he regards it as appropriate that solicitors appointed District Court judges, immediately or a short time after their judicial appointment, be appointed to or preside over a District Court in the local town or area in which prior to their appointment they practised as a solicitor; if a determination as to the location in which...

Written Answers — Commercial Rent Review: Commercial Rent Review (17 Nov 2010)

Alan Shatter: Question 160: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the steps he is taking to provide a publically accessible database of commercial leasehold interests and rents payable; his views on whether it is in the public interest that legislation be enacted to provide for such a database to provide reliable rent comparators to stabilise the commercial rental market; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Irish Prison Service: Irish Prison Service (17 Nov 2010)

Alan Shatter: Question 165: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform, further to Parliamentary Question No. 348 and the letter furnished by him in response to that question, to furnish to this Deputy in reply to this question a copy of the circular referred to in the letter as issued recently by the Irish Prison Service to all prison governors; to state the issue date of such circular; and to...

Written Answers — Payment of Fines: Payment of Fines (17 Nov 2010)

Alan Shatter: Question 166: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform to detail in respect of each prison the number of prisoners who, in the period 1 November 2009 to 31 October 2010, having been sentenced to terms of imprisonment for non-payment of a fine, were unconditionally released without such fine having been paid or with only a portion of such fine having been paid; the loss of revenue to...

Proposed Legislation (17 Nov 2010)

Alan Shatter: Question 41: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform his views that pre-existing commercial leases which prescribe upwards only rent reviews pose a serious threat to the economic viability of many businesses and to the protection of employment and the action he proposes to take; if his attention has been drawn to any reports of landlords incentivising commercial tenants to agree...

Proposed Legislation (17 Nov 2010)

Alan Shatter: Will the Minister acknowledge that there is a continuing problem in this area, in particular with institutional landlords in the context of retail outlets seeking to address issues of rent reviews? To maintain the capital value of their balance sheets, they are resisting any type of new arrangement, other than one that involves a rent increase, or at the very minimum rents remaining at...

Proposed Legislation (17 Nov 2010)

Alan Shatter: I am pleased the Minister has indicated he is going to make an amendment in the Bill when it comes before the House on Committee Stage. Will that database prescribe that the address of premises be included, as well as the rent and the date it was fixed, together with other arrangements relating to the organisation of a new rent for an existing lease, including those agreed before February...

Prison Committals (17 Nov 2010)

Alan Shatter: How many have absconded? Is it more or less than 400?

Prison Committals (17 Nov 2010)

Alan Shatter: The Minister does not care that people have absconded.