55 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the number of persons here who died in the period 1 January 2010 to 30 September 2010 as a consequence of being shot, being stabbed and of other violent action and to further detail the number of deaths he believes to be directly associated with the actions of feuding drug gangs and the number of prosecutions to date which have been initiated as a consequence of such deaths
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54 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the costs of the proposed electronic tagging of sex offenders; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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53 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Justice and Law Reform if the Garda closed circuit television system has been updated to digital nationwide; the areas which have been updated and which have yet to be updated; the timescale in which the work will be completed nationwide; the number of CCTV cameras which have to date been digitalised; the cost to date and the final total estimate cost of the project; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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26 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Finance the date the contract concluded with a company (details supplied) arranging for flights out of this State of persons being deported; the date of termination of the contract; the sums annually to date paid to the company in respect of the current contract and any earlier contract relating to the deportation of persons; if the contract was entered into pursuant to a publically advertised tendering process; the date when tender advertisements were published and if he will detail the number of tenders received in respect of the current contract
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140 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills when permission will be granted for a design team to be appointed to the school building project for a school (details supplied) in Dublin 16; the timeline she envisages for the building project through to completion; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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62 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the action he will take against an authority who are contravening the Broadcasting Act 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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348 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Justice and Law Reform if arrangements have now been made for fines imposed by the courts as a penalty in criminal proceedings to be reduced to zero upon the lodgement or delivery to Mountjoy Prison of persons who have failed to pay a fine; when these new arrangements were put in place and the instructions issued by him or on his behalf in this regard; if he will confirm these arrangements have been made to ensure the immediate release of fine defaulters and to avoid them being statistically included within the numbers of those granted temporary release and to detail the number of fine defaulters so dealt with to date
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347 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the number of Irish born children presently being individually processed through the asylum system and not simply registered as family dependants; the number of such applications determined to date; the number that have resulted in the granting of permission to remain here and the basis for any such decision reached and the number who have been denied permission to remain here
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202 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Justice and Law Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 24 of 7 October 2010 (details supplied) if he will provide the date to which this figure relates
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194 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the number of occasions in each of the past five years in which his Department or the Garda Síochána placed an advertisement seeking tenders from travel agencies or other persons for making necessary arrangements for the deportation from this State of illegal migrants; and to detail the current arrangements in place with regard to any possible such deportations in the coming 12 months.
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193 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the number of persons deported from the State in each of the past five years; the dates on which each deportation took place and the number of persons deported on those dates; the flight arrangements in each case in the context of the airline involved; the travel agency, if any, that made arrangements for the flights; in respect of each date on which deportations took place, the cost of the flights involved and the total sum paid in respect of such flights and any commissions relating thereto to the travel agency or agencies that made arrangements to book the flights and the total sum paid to each such agency in each of the past five years
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164 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Health and Children the reason the average waiting time for the processing of drug payment scheme refunds is approximately nine months; the reason the Dublin health board areas have one full-time member of staff or two part-time members of staff dealing with all applications for refunds; if her attention has been drawn to the consequential negative impact on persons awaiting receipt of moneys expended on the drugs payment scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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381 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will take an international initiative to have stoning condemned as a crime against humanity and to call on all states, including Iran, to end this medieval and barbaric punishment; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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376 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the fact that there has been a cut of 25% in the funding of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission; if the commission has been prohibited from receiving funding from Atlantic Philanthropy; that there is growing concern that the commission will be unable to discharge its functions in relation to human rights under the Good Friday Agreement; and to ask that these issues be raised as a matter of urgency with the British Government.
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367 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Justice and Law Reform if he will detail the new initiatives proposed or the action to be taken in relation to human trafficking as a consequence of the meeting that recently took place in Dundalk between the Northern Ireland Minister for Justice and the Scottish Cabinet Secretary for Justice
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366 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the new initiatives to be taken to tackle organised crime on a cooperative basis with the Northern Ireland Minister for Justice arising out of the trilateral meeting held in Dundalk on the 27 September 2010.
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365 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the nature of the cooperation he envisages between the forensic science services in this State and Northern Ireland; the areas in which there has been co-operation to date and the further initiatives, if any that arise following the trilateral meeting of Justice Ministers that took place on the 27 September 2010 in Dundalk
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358 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the number of applications for Irish citizenship by naturalisation approved between 1 July 2009 and 30 June 2010 in cases where the applicants had come to the adverse attention of a member of the Garda Síochána; if he will disaggregate the data by the applicants previous nationalities; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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357 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the number of applications for Irish citizenship by naturalisation were refused between 1 July 2009 and 30 June 2010 on the basis that the applicant had come to the adverse attention of a member of the Garda Síochána in situations where the applicant has not had a conviction recorded against them; and if he will disaggregate the data by the applicants nationalities; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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356 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the number of applications for Irish citizenship by naturalisation refused between 1 July 2009 and 30 June 2010 on the basis that the applicant had come to the adverse attention of the Garda Síochána; and if he will disaggregate the data by the applicants nationalities; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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355 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the number of applications for Irish citizenship by naturalisation refused between 1 July 2009 and 30 June 2010, disaggregated by the reasons for the refusal; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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354 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the number of applications for Irish citizenship by naturalisation refused between 1 July 2009 and 30 June 2010 disaggregated by the applicants’ nationalities, age and sex; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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353 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the number of applications for Irish citizenship by naturalisation were granted between 1 July 2009 and 30 June 2010, disaggregated by the applicants’ previous nationalities, age and sex; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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352 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the number of applications for citizenship by naturalisation processed by his Department between 1 July 2009 and 30 June 2010; the number of applications that were approved; the number refused; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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181 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the new provision to be made for the victims of institutional abuse as a consequence of the completion of the audit of the assets of religious orders; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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137 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs with regard to the speech delivered by him on Monday, 27 September 2010 at the 65th session of the UN General Assembly the reasons in his reference to the Middle East peace process and to Gaza no reference of any nature whatsoever is made by him to the strident opposition of Hamas and other Palestinian groups to continuing peace talks and a two state solution; the reason in addressing Iran no reference is made to that State’s similar opposition to the Middle East peace process, the threats made by its President to wipe the state of Israel off the map and its continuing funding of Hamas and other militant groups opposed to the peace process, intent on sabotaging it and threatening the lives of Palestinians participating in it.
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112 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the action he will take within the European Union and in the United Nations following publication by Amnesty International Ireland of its report From Protest to Prison: Iran One Year after the Election; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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134 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Justice and Law Reform in respect of each of our prisons the number of prisoners on a waiting list to participate in a drug treatment program; the number, if any, who have been on such waiting lists for in excess of three months; and the steps being taken, if any, by the Minister to ensure treatment is speedily provided for prisoners who require or request it.
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135 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the reason three key and urgent recommendations, 2.40, 2.41 and 2.42, made in the Abbeylara report published in February 2007 with regard to the need for formal arrangements for a team of mental health professionals to be established to assist the Garda in dealing with hostage incidents remain to be implemented; and the steps that have been taken to date to implement these particular recommendations.
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37 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Justice and Law Reform if a convicted drug dealer (details supplied) who absconded having been granted a temporary release from prison remains at large; if he will provide the exact offence for which they were convicted; the length of sentence imposed; the date when granted temporary release and the steps being taken by An Garda Síochána to ascertain their whereabouts since they absconded.
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24 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the number of persons sentenced to terms of imprisonment during the years 2007, 2008, 2009 and to date in 2010 granted temporary release who have failed in each of those years to return to prison as required and who remain on the run; if he will detail the offences for which they were convicted; the length of sentences imposed and the steps being taken to locate those who have absconded.
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5 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Justice and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to reports that criminal gang members or dissident Republicans have for a number of years coerced owners of public houses and nightclubs to use their services for the supply of doormen; if he believes these reports are accurate; the steps, if any, that have been taken to ensure owners of licensed premises and nightclubs are not coerced to use such services and do not have money extorted from them; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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4 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the steps being taken to prevent family members of bank employees being taken hostage and bank employees being coerced into facilitating bank robberies and if he regards the existing protocols applicable to such circumstances and training afforded to bank employees as adequate; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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3 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the circumstances which resulted in a Garda file containing documentation relating to an investigation into an alleged criminal gang being left by a member of An Garda Síochána on a premises (details supplied); the length of time the file remained on the premises; the action taken by An Garda Síochána to recover the file and in respect of the member of An Garda Síochána who abandoned the file on the premises; the steps taken if any to ensure all such files are properly secured so that such an incident can never again be repeated
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1 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Justice and Law Reform when the Garda file on the investigation into Anglo Irish Bank will be sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions; when the Garda investigation into events in Anglo Irish Bank will be completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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302 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food when he expects to publish and circulate the long promised Animal Health and Welfare Bill; to detail the work, if any, done in the drafting of the Bill to date; and if he agrees that current legislation providing for animal welfare is totally adequate.
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242 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the current position regarding the putting in place of cameras to monitor the speed of traffic at key locations; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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419 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the number of applications received by the Employment Appeals Tribunal as at 30 September 2010 awaiting allocation of a hearing date; the number of such cases for which a hearing date has been given; the number of such claims received by the tribunal not yet acknowledged to which no hearing date has yet been given and the date of receipt of claims last acknowledged; the steps, if any, being taken to reduce the delays being experienced by applicants in having their claims heard and determined; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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292 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Justice and Law Reform if the Irish Prison Service has put the purchase of tractors out to tender; if he will confirm the number of tractors it proposes to purchase; the use to which they will be put; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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289 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the number of foreign nationals who have illegally entered the State and who are to be deported who are currently in prison or in a place of detention; the nationalities of the persons concerned and those so held for less than three months, for between three to six months, for between six to 12 months and for in excess of 12 months.
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288 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the number of foreign nationals who have been refused entry permission to the State in each of the past five years.
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287 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the number of applicants for Irish citizenship whose applications are awaiting decision; the number of applicants whose applications are awaiting decision for in excess of 12 months but less than 18 months; and the numbers whose applications are awaiting decision for in excess of 18 months and not more than two years; and the numbers awaiting decisions for in excess of two years.
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286 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Justice and Law Reform if lands (details supplied) in Dublin 17 have been rented by or for the use of An Garda Síochána; the purpose for which any such land will be used; the identity of the owner of the land; details of any financial arrangements relating to the rental of the land; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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234 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Justice and Law Reform under the current remission system the number of convicted sex offenders he anticipates will be released in the next 12 months having completed their sentences; the number of such offenders who have to date engaged in a treatment programme; the numbers of those scheduled for release within 12 months who he anticipates will have participated in such a programme prior to release; and the nature of the programmes concerned and the qualifications and training of those who provide such programmes.
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233 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the drug treatment programmes in each of our prisons; the nature of the programmes; the number of persons involved in the provision of such programmes in each of our prisons and their qualifications; the number of prisoners in each of the past three years and this year to date in 2010 participating in any such programmes.
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232 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Justice and Law Reform in respect of each of the prisons here the current education programmes for prisoners; the subject matter of such programmes and the number of prisoners participating in such programmes.
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231 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the number of persons providing education and training programmes in each of our prisons; the qualification of such persons; the number of prisoners who have participated in such programmes in each of the years 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009; and the subject matter of such programmes.
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230 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the number of persons serving sentences of one year or less who previously served a similar sentence in a prison or a place of detention having been previously convicted of a criminal offence.
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228 Deputy Alan Shatter asked the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the number of gun murders between 1 January 1998 and the 30 September 2010; and the number of persons convicted and sentenced for gun murders here during the aforesaid period.
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