Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
FOI Requests — 3,015 records (page 30 of 61)
- Received —Decided 27 July 2020RefusedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
All briefing documents prepared by your Department's officials and presented to the new Minister. I'm seeking copies of documents delivered to Helen McEntee to introduce her to her new portfolio and ongoing issues under her responsibility between her appointment on 27 June 2020 and today 9 July 9 2020.
- Received —Decided 27 July 2020RefusedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
The briefing document for Helen McEntee and other Ministers in her Department, files usually given to a Minister informing them of what will be in their Department, what roles or responsibilities they have and what issues lie ahead under a new government.
- Received —Decided 24 July 2020Part-GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
A copy of all correspondence between officials in the Department of Justice and public health officials (including NPHET officials), regarding the use of the Skellig Star Hotel in Cahirsiveen, Co. Kerry as a centre to accommodate international protection applicants, the transfer of international protection applicants to that location, and the accommodation conditions in the centre between the period 3 February 2020 and 29 April 2020.
- Received —Decided 24 July 2020GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
The number of citizenship applications filed during 2019 and 2020. The number of citizenship applications currently open.
- Received —Decided 23 July 2020Part-GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
A copy of correspondence including memos and notes of telephone calls and approaches between the Department of Justice – Direct Provision Section - and Kerry County Council and its officials and members and Kerry TDs, Michael and Danny Healy-Rae, Pa Daly, Norma Foley and Brendan Griffin regarding the Direct Provision Centre in Cahersiveen between October 1st 2019 and May 1st 2020, inclusive. Any documents in relation to proposals to designate the Skellig Star Hotel O'Connell St, Cahersiveen and any records of decision to open the hotel as a Direct Provision Centre.
- Received —Decided 23 July 2020Part-GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
All records in relation the Skellig Star Direct Provision Centre, including and not limited to: • All Visit reports to evaluate the centre including dates etc. • Dates of contracts and any meetings held.
- Received —Decided 22 July 2020RefusedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
1) A copy of all complaints received by the International Protection Accommodation Service (IPAS) from international protection applicants and those living in either temporary or longer term direct provision accommodation, created since 1 January 2020. 2) A copy of all complaints received by the International Protection Accommodation Service (IPAS) from those who own, run, manage or are otherwise responsible for providing direct provision accommodation.
- Received —Decided 17 July 2020Part-GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
Any emails in the past year to or from a named member of staff of the Garda National Immigration Bureau that mention the following: AWS, Atypical Workers Scheme, fishermen, fishing, trafficking, Egypt, Egyptian, ITF, International Transport Workers' Federation.
- Received —Decided 17 July 2020Part-GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
Minutes of all meetings held in the period 1 April 2020 to 31 May 2020 in relation to direct provision services in Cahersiveen.
- Received —Decided 17 July 2020RefusedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
Any guidance, circulars, internal guidelines or equivalent that relate to how to assess and determine whether an applicant for citizenship meets the "good character" requirement.
- Received —Decided 17 July 2020RefusedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
If the Department of Justice uses the services of named company technology for the purposes of Facial Recognition. - If so, for what purposes.
- Received —Decided 17 July 2020RefusedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
The annual expenditure on the Council for the Status of Women get every year since its foundation and Government guidelines on the use of such monies.
- Received —Decided 14 July 2020Part-GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
• The number of deaths inside all direct provision centres since it was produced in 1999 until 2 June 2020. • The number of deaths that were recorded as a suicide and the number of deaths that were recorded (for unknown reasons)
- Received —Decided 13 July 2020Part-GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
Any information exchanged internally or externally between officials in the Department of Justice about the possible introduction of a system to allow for the electronic filing of documents by the legal service in light of the Covid-19 pandemic.
- Received —Decided 13 July 2020GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
How much in monetary terms was sanctioned in criminal legal aid in both courts during the same period [Jan 2018 to May 2020].
- Received —Decided 13 July 2020GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
A copy of the data protection breach log in respect of 2019 and 2020 to date, where 'data protection breach log' is construed to mean a record maintained by the DJE Data Protection Officer or other relevant person of notifications received by staff of suspected data protection breaches in accordance with the Department's data protection policy, outlining the nature of the suspected breach, the section or department responsible, and the outcome of the incident.
- Received —Decided 13 July 2020RefusedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
Any correspondence, submissions or proposals made to the Expert Group on Direct Provision or to the Department of Justice and Equality on behalf of the Expert Group regarding its work since 17 December 2019. This includes submissions made to the Expert Group from inside the Department of Justice and Equality from officials above the grade of Assistant Principal.
- Received —Decided 13 July 2020Part-GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
1) The fees paid to each coroner in Ireland last year - by name and the coroner's court in which they operate. 2) The total number of inquests which were carried out in Ireland in (i) 2017, (ii) 2018 and (iii) 2019, with a breakdown by each coroner's court. I would also like a breakdown of the verdicts in each court in each of the three years.
- Received —Decided 10 July 2020Part-GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
All minutes of meetings, correspondence and memoranda of electronic and phone communication in relation to the establishment of the telephone support service, for residents of direct provision centres and emergency accommodation centres, operated by the Jesuit Refugee Service.
- Received —Decided 8 July 2020Part-GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
All correspondence between Mark Wilson and George Sinclair (Department of Justice officials) regarding operations at IPAS between 1 May and 29 May 2020.
- Received —Decided 7 July 2020RefusedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
• Legal and final business contract(s) between the Department of Justice and any entities acting on behalf of the Skellig Star Direct Provision Centre in Cahersiveen, Co. Kerry. • Head of Terms or Letter of Intent between the Department of Justice and any entities acting on behalf of the Skellig Star Direct Provision Centre in Cahersiveen, Co. Kerry.
- Received —Decided 6 July 2020RefusedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
All documents and correspondence relating to inspections and/or visits by staff of the International Protection Accommodation Service to Ciúin House, The Paddocks, Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim, from April 2019 to 5 May 2020. Including but not limited to: emails, notes from phone conversations, and notes from meetings, text and WhatsApp messages.
- Received —Decided 6 July 2020Part-GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
1. All documents and correspondence to, from or about the Anti Human Trafficking Unit in relation to changes in personnel, protocol, identification of victims, services and information offered to victims of human trafficking from the date 1 January 2016 to date 7 May 2020.
- Received —Decided 3 July 2020RefusedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
Records relating to the number of people who have been contacted, fined or charged by the Department of Justice and Equality in relation to working while in direct provision each year in the years 2015-2019.
- Received —Decided 30 June 2020RefusedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
Copies of all inspections - including both State inspections and QTS inspections - of Direct Provision centres between January 2019 and May 2020.
- Received —Decided 30 June 2020RefusedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
A table containing all costs from direct provision in Ireland including names/companies who received payment and for what that payment was for.
- Received —Decided 30 June 2020RefusedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
Details of cost to house, feed etc. an individual asylum seeker at Skellig Star Hotel.
- Received —Decided 26 June 2020GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
• The total numbers of refugees and asylum seekers in Ireland at the moment in all the different centres. • The public tenders that went out and the contracts accepted by the different management companies that run these centres.
- Received —Decided 25 June 2020GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
Any records from 2015 until now about the commencement date for the Civil Debt (procedures) Act 2015 and why it has not been commenced.
- Received —Decided 25 June 2020GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
Records of non-personal data breach figures from May 2018 until 2020.
- Received —Decided 24 June 2020RefusedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
• Any correspondence (inc. meetings, emails, presentations, memos etc) between any representatives of the Department (including
- Received —Decided 23 June 2020RefusedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
I am requesting in electronic form a copy of any memos and/or circulars generated since 1 May 2020 that were instructing sections to refer anyone who requests their personal data to the FOI Unit rather than the
- Received —Decided 23 June 2020RefusedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
Records of all bills / legislation / debates / discussions on online harassment including but not limited to: cyberbullying, cyberstalking, hateful speech, online sexual harassment, trolling, revenge pornography (sextortion) and romance scams.
- Received —Decided 23 June 2020GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
Copies of any records held referring or relating to a briefing given by the CMO to Department officials on either the 16 or 17 of March. Copies of any submissions, memos, reports, briefings or any other such review/discussion documents held discussing the CMO's comments that differing approaches north and south of the border presented a threat to ROI.
- Received —Decided 16 June 2020RefusedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
Any correspondence received by the Department of Justice and Equality from the Department of the Taoiseach or any agency of the French government concerning the case of the murder of named person in west Cork in 1996. The request also includes any correspondence issued by your Department to the Department of the Taoiseach or any agency of the French government.
- Received —Decided 16 June 2020Part-GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
Correspondence created in the following lobbying return for bodies that are either the Department itself or are under the aegis of the Department: https://www.lobbying.ie/return/59572/council-of-the-bar- of-ireland
- Received —Decided 10 June 2020GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
Exact numbers of applications received and approved by the Department for Irish citizenship since 2010 till March 2020 in respect of; i. Adult Pakistani citizens; ii. Minor Pakistani citizens; iii. Adult Indian citizens; iv. Minor Indian citizens; v. Adult Bangladeshi citizens; vi. Minor Bangladeshi citizens
- Received —Decided 9 June 2020Part-GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
Email correspondence to/from the Department relating to or concerning the Direct Provision Centre at the Skellig Star Hotel in Cahersiveen, during the period January 1st 2020 to April 30th 2020.
- Received —Decided 9 June 2020GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
Any and all correspondence between Danny Healy Rae and the Department of Justice and Equality in relation to either Direct Provision
- Received —Decided 4 June 2020Part-GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
Information regarding the designation of the 'Skellig Star Hotel' in Cahersiveen, Co. Kerry as a Direct Provision Centre. How, who or at whose behest were representations made to the Department of Justice and Equality, either orally or written to have the 'Skellig Star Hotel' Cahersiveen designated as a Direct Provision Centre for Asylum Seekers. A copy of all oral and written submissions made on this matter to the Department of Justice and Equality, including who made such submission, on whose behalf, and the nature of them.
- Received —Decided 4 June 2020Part-GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
1. Copy all correspondence between named solicitors and/or named firm and the Department of Justice and Equality (to include its predecessors-in-title) in relation to the Criminal Justice (Legal Aid) Act 1962 and the various regulations made thereunder; 2. Copy all applications for payment made by named solicitors and/or named firm on foot of a certificate of legal aid;
- Received —Decided 4 June 2020Part-GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
Requesting the regulations and guidance provided to contractors providing Direct Provision on access to free menstrual hygiene products for those residing in their centres.
- Received —Decided 4 June 2020RefusedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
All records held referring or relating to the cessation of exceptional needs payments for residents of direct provision to buy items like nappies. This request to cover the period 1 Jan 2020 to 1 June 2020.
- Received —Decided 2 June 2020Part-GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
(1) When and by whom was the Skellig Star Hotel in Cahersiveen deemed suitable as a dedicated Direct Provision Centre. (2) Copy of inspection report deeming Skellig Star Hotel Cahersiveen suitable as a dedicated direct provision centre.
- Received —Decided 28 May 2020RefusedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
A record of the agreement between the Department of Justice and Remcoll Capital for the operation of a Direct Provision Centre in the Skellig Star Hotel, Cahersiveen, Co. Kerry, including the agreed contract fee and any other payments to be made for the operation of the Direct Provision Centre.
- Received —Decided 28 May 2020RefusedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
Copy of the contract awarded by the Department of Justice and Equality to Townbe/Remcoll to provide accommodation to international protection applicants in Skellig Star, Cahersiveen, Co. Kerry.
- Received —Decided 26 May 2020Part-GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
All internal and external correspondence received and/or sent by the Department of Justice in relation to the Skellig Star Hotel (AKA Watermarque Hotel) in Cahersiveen, Co Kerry, in particular its potential - and subsequent use as a centre to accommodate asylum seekers, anytime between January 1st, 2017 and 21 April 2020.
- Received —Decided 26 May 2020RefusedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
The most recent RIA inspection reports for each individual direct provision centre.
- Received —Decided 19 May 2020Part-GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
All records, to include emails and correspondence, relating to the European Commission's proposed abolition of bi-annual clock changes (summer time/winter time) and its potential impact.
- Received —Decided 19 May 2020Part-GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
Documentation/policy documents/policy discussions/emails between the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection and the Department of Justice and Equality (including ministerial correspondence) pertaining to Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment & Asylum Seekers. The date period for this request is from the first date the proposed Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment was discussed between officials/Ministers in Department of Justice and DEASP, to 28 April 2020.