Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
FOI Requests — 3,015 records (page 15 of 61)
- Received —Decided 8 May 2023Part-GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
A copy of any briefings, reports, memos, submissions, or other such high- level documents prepared for either the Minister or the secretary general with regard to the decision to cease the immigrant investor programme.
- Received —Decided 5 May 2023Part-GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
All records held by the Department of Justice relating to the granting of consents including but not limited to general consents by the Minister for Justice to the Legal Aid Board pursuant to section 3(2) of the Civil Legal Aid Act 1995 to acquire Interests in property.
- Received —Decided 28 April 2023RefusedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
Copies of any correspondence between the management team of the IPO and its parent Department with regard to lack of resources, either staffing
- Received —Decided 28 April 2023GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
The Irish response to the EU Commission questionnaire on spyware of 21 December 2022.
- Received —Decided 28 April 2023Part-GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
All records containing the keywords “covid” and “protest” created between 25 May 2020 and 31 October 2020 and held in the Minister’s Office or the Office of the Secretary General.
- Received —Decided 28 April 2023GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
A list of all Peace commissioners in Thurles and the dates of their appointment to the role.
- Received —Decided 27 April 2023RefusedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
I am submitting an FOI request under the Act recording discussions by Minister Harris and the Department as to whether Minister Harris has an ethical obligation to make a disclosure of interest in relation to his brother, Mr Adam Harris being a member of the Board of Rethink Ireland, which receives Government Funding, which is providing funding for an entity entitled Far Right Observatory who declared purpose is overtly political and involves 'innovate new approaches to disrupt and minimise the harm of far right extremism'.
- Received —Decided 26 April 2023Part-GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
Memos, briefing notes and reports related to the GSOC structural review and business analysis since 1 January 2021 to the date of this request. (as mentioned at the end of this press release https://www.gardaombudsman.ie/news-room/archive/gsoc-publishes-its- 2021- annual-report-gsoc-in-transition/) “This includes the commencement of a thorough structural review and business analysis to inform the business, staffing and resourcing demands of the reformed organisation. This review will be completed in 2022”.
- Received —Decided 24 April 2023RefusedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
I would like to make a FOI request for any emails and texts correspondence between: The Minister of State at the Department of Justice James Browne TD and a named member of the Firearms Expert Committee (FEC).
- Received —Decided 19 April 2023GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
Recently responded to FOI DOJ-FOI-2023-007 stated that in the last five years there were approximately 4131 deportation orders served of which the Government enforced 314. 1. The breakdown of the issued deportation orders into however the Department sub classifies the cause of each deportation order ie. Failed asylum seeker, sexual assault, criminality. 2. The number of forced deportations carried out once again broke up into above sub categories.
- Received —Decided 19 April 2023Part-GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
I request copies of correspondence and minutes of meetings between the Minister McEntee and the Irish Penal Reform Trust on the subject of parole and parole for determinate sentenced prisoners from the 1 January 2022 to 28 February 2023.
- Received —Decided 19 April 2023RefusedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
I wish to obtain copies of all audit reports into the Immigrant investor Scheme and copies of any reports sent to the Justice Minister concerning the findings contained in the audits and any issues identified.
- Received —Decided 18 April 2023GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
Copies of the central registers maintained by the Department of Justice, as per its obligations as set out under Department of Public Expenditure and Reform Circular 01/2020: Procedures for Offsetting the Emissions Associating with Official Air Travel. Under the Circular, it is expected that registers contain details of individual flights, associated greenhouse gas emissions, and the monetary value calculated for each flight to be paid into the Climate Action Fund by the Department.
- Received —Decided 18 April 2023Part-GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
1. Kindly provide the up to date Departmental guidance to staff working under the Atypical Working Visa Scheme Department in respect of processing and/or evaluating applications. 2. Kindly provide any memorandum, guidance document, or process document furnished to staff in the Atypical Working Visa Scheme Department of the Department of Justice to evaluate whether a
- Received —Decided 17 April 2023Part-GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
A copy of the submission made by Racecourse Media Group Limited to James Browne, per the lobbying register. For reference, here’s a link to the lobbying register: https://www.lobbying.ie/return/94748/racecourse-media-group-limited
- Received —Decided 17 April 2023RefusedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
A copy of IPO’s procedure to mitigate the issue of homeless tents outside its premises.
- Received —Decided 17 April 2023GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
Figures from 2018 to 2022 on refugee status granted and refused, and also subsidiary protection applications granted and refused. I also wish to request the total payment to panel members for the 5 years in question as well as the number of cases on hands as of 31 December 2022.
- Received —Decided 17 April 2023Part-GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
A copy of the submission made to Minister of State James Browne by Racecourse Media Group Ltd which is referenced in this lobbying report: https://www.lobbying.ie/return/94748/racecourse-media-group-limited
- Received —Decided 6 April 2023RefusedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
To ask the Minister for Justice and his HR/Pensions Units the number of Civil/Public Servants in his Department in the last 10 years who have been granted full-service retirement of 40 years for compassionate/ discretionary reasons when they retired on ill health grounds (on the advice of a medical advisor). (1) Can he please indicate the number of recipients whom full service has been awarded to, even, if it was beyond their nearest potential service age for retirement of 60 or 65 (whichever is applicable to their status) i.e., despite 40yrs being beyond their official retirement age they were not paid just to the nearest pensionable age but instead were awarded full pension. (2) How many years were granted to these retirees in these particular cases.
- Received —Decided 6 April 2023RefusedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
A complete list of vacant/unoccupied properties owned by the Department and the agencies/bodies under its aegis. Please include the name and address of each property, and its zone status (eg residential, commercial, industrial).
- Received —Decided 4 April 2023Part-GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
Copies of all correspondence to/from the secretary general related to the return to office working at the Department following the Covid-19 pandemic. · The correspondence can be limited to items to/from the following: Ministers; unions. · The time period for the correspondence can be limited to 1 August 2022 to 18 October 2022. · Details of the total number of staff employed by the Department as of 18 October 2022 and a breakdown of how many are working from home; working in the office; working in a hybrid arrangement. · Copies of any internal publications/reports on remote working/return to the office drawn up since 31 January 2022.
- Received —Decided 4 April 2023GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
How many people have been deported from Ireland after their asylum application has been rejected since 2010. If possible, can details of the country the person was deported to be provided too.
- Received —Decided 3 April 2023Part-GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
All records in relation to either Minister McEntee or Minister Harris and the Department discussing and or considering Section 52 of S.I No. 252/2007 - Prison Rules, 2007 in relation to the separation of male and female prisoners.
- Received —Decided 29 March 2023Part-GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
Communications (Retention of Data) (Amendment) Act 2022. This is a FOI request for records relating to the drafting and adoption of the above Act. On records created between 1 April 2022 and 31 May 2022.
- Received —Decided 29 March 2023Part-GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
All documents and records, including records in electronic format, from 31 May 2022 to 23 January 2023, held by your Department concerning proposed changes to the roster of Immigration Control Officers at Dublin Airport. In particular, such records should include any emails & correspondence between BMU management & Justice HR officials on the matter and any proposed alternative rosters.
- Received —Decided 29 March 2023Part-GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
e-Sub relating to the Immigrant Investor Programme - Immigration permissions and invested projects (FOI Request – 2022-0601 refers).
- Received —Decided 29 March 2023RefusedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
I'm requesting correspondence between the Minister and the Commissioner regarding: 1. GSOC/Independent Police Ombudsman. 2. The Policing Security and Community Safety Bill. From 01 January 2021 to date of request.
- Received —Decided 29 March 2023RefusedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
A copy of any briefings, memos, reports, submissions, or other such high- level documents prepared for the Minister or the Secretary General with regard to the decision to appoint 24 additional judges to the bench.
- Received —Decided 28 March 2023Part-GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
TRIS Notification of Communications (Retention of Data) (Amendment) Act 2022. This is a FOI request for all records relating to the notification of the above Act under the TRIS procedure (Directive 2015/1535) including any correspondence with the NSAI.
- Received —Decided 27 March 2023RefusedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
The meeting minutes of the Firearms Expert Committee (FEC). This is where they publish their meeting reports: https://www.gov.ie/en/publication/8fa98-firearms-expert-committee/ Can I get the meeting minutes for the first 8 meetings.
- Received —Decided 27 March 2023RefusedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
A complete and unedited copy of all minutes taken during all meetings of the Firearms Expert Committee from 2022 to 2023.
- Received —Decided 23 March 2023RefusedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
Records created on or after 1 January 2022 until 27 February 2023 relating to carrier liability fines imposed on airlines in 2022 under the Immigration Act 2003 (Carrier Liability) Regulations 2003, or, in the alternative, a list of airlines with the number of fines issued in 2022.
- Received —Decided 22 March 2023RefusedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
Correspondence between the Department of Justice and the Data Protection Commission (DPC) in relation to the announced plans to appoint two new commissioners to the DPC. Specifically, all correspondence relevant to the matter between Ministers McEntee or Harris, Secretary General Oonagh McPhillips or Principal Officer Tara Storey and the DPC, between the dates 23 July 2022 and 14 February 2023. All briefing documents prepared for the Minister in relation to the same matter prior to the July 2022 announcement.
- Received —Decided 21 March 2023GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
I request the details of the number annually of people who have come to Ireland due to being economic migrants during this period also and from what countries all have come from. In the period 24 February 2022 until 31 January 2023.
- Received —Decided 21 March 2023GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
A spreadsheet/database/record of all complaints made to the IPO in 2022. This record to be anonymised but ideally to include the month of the complaint, its location, a brief line description of the issue, and its current status e.g. upheld, resolved, rejected etc..
- Received —Decided 21 March 2023Part-GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
Report of Review of Fishers Atypical Working Scheme.
- Received —Decided 21 March 2023Part-GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
1. The number of complaints received by the Department of Justice relating to the judicial system each year from 2018 to 2022 (inclusive).
- Received —Decided 21 March 2023Part-GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
I am looking for all correspondence to and from the Minister for Justice in relation to the Oliver Bond flat complex in Dublin from 1 January 2023 to 20 February 2023. I am specifically interested in crime and anti-social behaviour.
- Received —Decided 15 March 2023RefusedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
I wish to obtain all notes, records and correspondence between the Department and Garda Headquarters since 2015 which concerns AGS policy on the collection of digital intelligence and collection of information from social media platforms by Gardaí.
- Received —Decided 15 March 2023GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
I am looking for the total amount of payments made from the Department of Justice, to named company in 2019.
- Received —Decided 15 March 2023RefusedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
I am requesting the release of any memos, emails or briefings provided to the Minister since 1 February concerning the app TikTok.
- Received —Decided 8 March 2023RefusedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
I would like to request a breakdown of the number of applications of minors becoming Irish citizens through naturalisation residing in Northern Ireland for the year 2022. The total number of applications (Forms 9, 10, 11) from any address (Ireland, NI, rest of world) was 25,444, from 1 January 2013 to 31 October 2022. Please disclose the following: A breakdown of the number of applications of minors becoming Irish citizens through naturalisation in Northern Ireland in 2022 (i.e. the total number from people with a BT postcode e.g. from BT1 to BT94) If possible within the time and cost constraints of the FOI legislation, please also provide the above information for any or all of the years from 2021, and going back as far as possible to 2013. If it is only possible within the time and cost constraints of the FOI legislation to provide a breakdown of Form 9 applications, please do so.
- Received —Decided 8 March 2023Part-GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
Copies of all correspondence in any format whatsoever between named organisation and the Department of Justice (to include minutes, memos, and notes of meeting, phone calls etc.) for period 01 January 2022 to 31 December 2022. Also to include copies of all correspondence (to include
- Received —Decided 7 March 2023RefusedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
Under the Freedom of Information Act 2014 from 24 February 2022 until 31 January 2023. I request all electronic and paper correspondence, including complaints, covering all the above groups of people who have migrated to Ireland for different reasons, including refugee status, to the Department and/or Minister. The correspondence should include communications made on the behalf of these people by representatives and groups.
- Received —Decided 6 March 2023RefusedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
I wish to request a list of the countries where international protection applicants came from in 2022, (ie the country they were in prior to coming to Ireland).
- Received —Decided 6 March 2023Part-GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
Copies of any correspondence made electronically or on paper from refugees or groups or individuals on behalf of refugees to the Minister or/and Department, including all complaints from 24 February 2022 until 31 January 2023.
- Received —Decided 6 March 2023GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
The number of deportation orders issued for each of the last 5 years in tabular format and the number of forced deportations carried out by the state for the last five years in tabular format.
- Received —Decided 28 February 2023Part-GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
All records within the office of the Minister relating to DPC review of governance, staffing and process dated between 1 July 2022 and 31 December 2022 inclusive.
- Received —Decided 28 February 2023GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
I request the exact number of Ukrainian refugees in Ireland between these dates and the number of children and adults from 24 February 2022 until 31 January 2023.
- Received —Decided 28 February 2023Part-GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
A full breakdown of the payment accumulated so far regarding named Section 42 inquiry. This breakdown should include: - How much each person has been paid up until 4 February 2023. - The names of the barristers and solicitors who are acting on behalf of the State during this inquiry. - Their exact roll in this inquiry and their working hours and pay. - How many witnesses have been called throughout the inquiry and what expenses have been paid regarding these witness?