Written answers
Thursday, 20 October 2005
Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
- Garda Deployment
Question 12: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his views on the setting up of an independent traffic police force to release the Garda Síochána from time consuming duties... - Garda Disciplinary Proceedings
Question 13: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will be taking action, as provided for in the Garda Síochána Act 2005, calling the Garda Commissioner, Noel Conroy,... - International Agreements
Question 14: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if representatives from his Department or associated agencies have travelled to Nigeria to monitor the implementation of the... - Garda Strength
Question 15: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when the 2,000 extra gardaí promised in the programme for Government will be on the streets; and if he will make a statement... - Garda Investigations
Question 16: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform about the delay in establishing an inquiry into the circumstances in which Dean Lyons confessed to a murder while in Garda... - Departmental Bodies
Question 17: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of operational sections in his Department in each year since 1997; the number of employees in each section since... - Proposed Legislation
Question 18: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if the Minister for Health and Children abandons the proposed Alcohol Advertising Bill which is due to be published before... - Prison Building Programme
Question 19: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will proceed with his proposal to build a new prison at Thornton Hall; the way in which he proposes to respond to the... - Garda Communications
Question 20: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when he will have the proposed Tetra digital communications system installed and available to the Garda Síochána; and if he... - Garda Operations
Question 21: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when he proposes to introduce a scheme of community policing as provided for under the Garda Síochána Act 2005; and if he... - Child Care Services
Question 22: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he is carrying out an assessment of child care needs; his estimate of the number of children already taking up child care... - Ministerial Appointments
Question 23: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when he proposes to seek approval for his recently selected three person Ombudsman Commission for the Garda Síochána; and... - Garda Investigations
Question 24: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the nature of his investigation into the case of a person (details supplied); if he has satisfied himself with the Garda... - Garda Deployment
Question 26: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of gardaí who are on sick leave; the length of time each has been absent from work; and if he will make a... - Child Care Services
Question 27: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will report on progress over the past 12 months in expansion of the equal opportunities child care programme; and if he... - Garda Disciplinary Proceedings
Question 28: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of gardaí who are suspended from the force; the length of suspension in each case; if they will receive their... - Crime Levels
Question 29: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of gangland type murders that have been committed here in each of the past ten years; the detection rate in each... - Prison Accommodation
Question 30: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the recent report of the inspector of prisons which describes the system of slopping out... - Departmental Expenditure
Question 31: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason the sum of €500,000 was spent on an information technology system for human resource management in the Prison... - Closed Circuit Television Systems
Question 32: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if the new community based closed circuit television system funded through ADM will replace the Garda closed circuit... - Garda Disciplinary Proceedings
Question 33: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the circumstances (details supplied) in which a member of the Garda Síochána has felt... - Prison Education Service
Question 34: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the recent report by the inspector of prisons that the training unit at Mountjoy should... - Asylum Applications
Question 35: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of applications for asylum received in each year since 2000; the number of applications approved by the refugee... - Garda Deployment
Question 36: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of gardaí attached to the traffic corps; if he will increase the number of gardaí; the reason so many road... - Proposed Legislation
Question 37: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the progress he has made towards drafting new defamation legislation; if such legislation is conditional on the introduction... - Legal Aid Service
Question 38: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the FLAC publication (details supplied); his views on whether its tenet that while equal... - Garda Investigations
Question 39: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a witness in a murder case (details supplied) has retracted their statement... - Garda Reform
Question 42: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the recent statements made by the president of the Human Rights Commission, Mr. Maurice... - Residential Institutions Redress Scheme
Question 43: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the allegations made to a programme (details supplied) by victims of State institutions... - Child Care Services
Question 44: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he has received the report, An Accessible Childcare Model, by the National Women's Council of Ireland; if this report has... - State Exonerations
Question 45: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if a person (details supplied) will be officially exonerated by the Irish State; and if he will make a statement on the... - Child Care Services
Question 46: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his views on the ESRI view that child care is to become more expensive and more difficult to obtain; the initiatives, in... - Citizenship Applications
Question 48: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the arrest of a person (details supplied) in the Bahamas by the US authorities; if his... - Child Care Services
Question 49: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will explore the option of providing funding to community playgroups; his views on whether the non-availability of and... - Garda Investigations
Question 50: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he has fully identified all of the money laundering, racketeering and drug running activities throughout the country; if... - Departmental Funding
Question 51: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will provide details of all funding made available by him to groups providing support services to victims of violence... - Homeless Persons
Question 52: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a report (details supplied), commissioned by his Department, finds that a... - Garda Investigations
Question 53: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his plans to open an inquiry into the Garda investigation and subsequent criminal proceedings surrounding the murder of a... - Drug Seizures
Question 54: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the widespread availability of cocaine here and the increasing quantities of crack cocaine... - Garda Investigations
Question 55: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to correspondence (details supplied); if he met with some of the principals in the case in... - Telecommunications Data
Question 56: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the service providers the Garda Commissioner has written to pursuant to section 63 of the Criminal Justice (Terrorist... - Prison Medical Service
Question 57: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if there have been any confirmed or reported cases of MRSA in prisons; the protocols which are in place in the prison medical... - Drug Seizures
Question 58: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of cocaine seizures by the Garda Síochána in the towns of Tralee and Listowel, County Kerry, for each year from... - Departmental Staff
Question 59: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of civil servants in his Department dealing directly with the issue of child care; and if he will make a statement... - International Agreements
Question 60: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if the co-ordinating committee provided for in the readmission agreement between the Irish and Nigerian Governments has been... - Residency Permits
Question 61: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of non-nationals who entered here as unaccompanied minors who have now reached the age of 18 years and whose... - Drugs in Prisons
Question 65: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if the Prison Service will provide access to other confirmatory testing for prisoners whose initial mandatory drug test is... - Consultancy Contracts
Question 66: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of consultants employed by his Department in each year since 1997; the cost of each contracted; the work that was... - Prison Drug Treatment Services
Question 67: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if the Prison Service has a policy that sets a maximum dosage of methadone allowable for prisoners; if so, the details of the... - Prison Accommodation
Question 69: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will reopen the Curragh Prison, Fort Mitchel or Spike Island in view of the fact that the industrial relations dispute... - Proposed Legislation
Question 70: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his proposals in regard to the privatisation of speed cameras; the way in which he will ensure that the proposal will not end...
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