Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
FOI Requests — 3,015 records (page 31 of 61)
- Received —Decided 14 May 2020Part-GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
All documents, emails and correspondence generated in the Department of Justice and Equality, including the Reception and Integration Agency, concerning any proposals to locate a Direct Provision Centre or other type of centre for asylum seekers in the Skellig Star/Watermark Hotel in Cahirciveen Co Kerry. The timeline for documents etc. under the above request is 1 November 2019 to 17 March 2020.
- Received —Decided 13 May 2020Part-GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
• The total number of asylum-seekers who are currently living in emergency accommodation in hotels, guest houses or other facilities because of a lack of space in the direct-provision system - along with a breakdown by the county, or town, in which they are living, along with a breakdown by gender, and by the number of whom are adults/children. • The total amount spent by the Department on accommodating asylum-seekers in emergency accommodation in hotels, guesthouses or other facilities because of a lack of space in the direct-provision system, in (i) 2019 and (ii) so far in 2020. • The total number of asylum-seekers who are in direct-provision centres in Ireland, with a breakdown by each centre. • The total cost of running direct-provision centres in Ireland last year, with a breakdown by each centre.
- Received —Decided 13 May 2020RefusedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
On 18/19th March 2020 27 residents were moved into Asylum Seekers Centre (direct provision) at the Rock Quarter, Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim now known as Carraig Accommodation Centre. Where were these families housed prior to their move to Ballinamore?
- Received —Decided 12 May 2020Part-GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
All copies of all briefing materials, memos, minutes, draft and final proposals, and any other intra-departmental correspondence concerning the Thornton Hall (Killsallaghan, North, Co. Dublin) site visit by Mark Wilson Principal Officer, Reception and Integration Agency, Department of Justice in July 2019.
- Received —Decided 12 May 2020Part-GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
Any correspondence received by the Department between December 2019 and February 2020 from any city or county councillor in response to invitations to the RIC commemoration event which was planned for this year.
- Received —Decided 8 May 2020RefusedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
A spreadsheet/database of all visa applications received in 2019 broken down by country, and by the success/failure rate for each country.
- Received —Decided 7 May 2020RefusedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
Under the 2014 FOI act I am requesting the following Any correspondence/memos/letters created as a result of the following lobbying returns: https://www.lobbying.ie/return/55168/council-of-the-bar-of-ireland https://www.lobbying.ie/return/55236/council-of-the-bar-of-ireland https://www.lobbying.ie/return/55233/council-of-the-bar-of-ireland
- Received —Decided 5 May 2020Part-GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
Records which give the location of all Direct Provision centres and emergency accommodation centres in Dublin. Also If possible, I wish to access any records of maintenance that has been done in these centres in the past five years and any correspondence between the Department and Direct Provision centres regarding maintenance.
- Received —Decided 30 April 2020Part-GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
Copies of all correspondence in relation to complaints and observations made to the Minister for Justice and Equality, or the Secretary General of the Department, about a particular judge or judges. Request is restricted to such correspondence received after 1 January 2017. Copies of all documents generated as a result of such correspondence, including responses sent to the authors of the correspondence.
- Received —Decided 30 April 2020RefusedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
Any correspondence to/from the Minister with named companies on behalf of named company since 1 May 2019.
- Received —Decided 30 April 2020Part-GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
All internal documents that contain the number of removals via deportation orders currently pending and the number of removals via deportation orders currently being appealed.
- Received —Decided 29 April 2020Part-GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
• Copies of any records held in the email account of Minister Flanagan relating to the opening of a new direct provision centre in Rosslare, Co Wexford. This part of the request to cover period 1 December 2019 to 5 March 2020. • Copies of any submissions, memos, briefs, or other such review or explanatory documents relating to the opening of the direct provision centre in Rosslare. Same timeline as above. • Copies of any representations received by the Department relating to the opening of the Rosslare Centre.
- Received —Decided 27 April 2020RefusedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
A copy of all correspondence (including emails) to and from Minister Charlie Flanagan in relation to the IRA, New IRA or Saoradh since January 1, 2019.
- Received —Decided 27 April 2020RefusedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
Copies of all briefing material prepared for the Minister for Justice and his private secretaries and special advisors relating to Sinn Féin / the Provisional IRA / the IRA Provisional Council. Letters, emails or any other correspondence between the Taoiseach and Minister for Justice relating to concerns about Sinn Féin and the Provisional IRA / the IRA Provisional Council. Letters, emails or any other correspondence between An Garda Síochána or other State security services and the Minister for Justice (and his private secretaries and special advisors) relating to security concerns relating to Sinn Féin and the Provisional IRA / the IRA Provisional Council.
- Received —Decided 27 April 2020GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
A grid with details of all applications submitted to INIS for lay volunteer visas since the beginning of 2016 with: (1) date logged as received by INIS (2) whether the application was successful/rejected (3) which organisation sponsored their application.
- Received —Decided 24 April 2020GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
A list/database/or spreadsheet of all purchase orders of over €20,000 for the period 2019.
- Received —Decided 24 April 2020Part-GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
Updated records pertaining to and/or recording the number of Reception and Integration Agency (RIA) "Direct Provision" Accommodation Centres.
- Received —Decided 24 April 2020GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
Records showing the number of employee/official mobile devices - to include smartphones, laptops and tablets - reported lost by or stolen by employees/officials in 2017, 2018 and 2019. • Breakdown of same by device and year • Whether devices were encrypted or not.
- Received —Decided 24 April 2020RefusedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
Copies of any briefings, submissions, memos, audits, or other such review or explanatory documents referring or relating to immigration control measures targeting nationals of Georgia and Albania. This request is to cover the period 1 September 2019 to 5 March 2020.
- Received —Decided 23 April 2020RefusedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
Copies of any submission/briefings/reports prepared for Minister Flanagan or the Department Secretary General with regard to COVID-19 and its potential impact on direct provision centres.
- Received —Decided 21 April 2020Part-GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
1) Copies of all records held by the Department of Justice referring or relating to a video of sleeping arrangements at the East End Hotel in Portarlington. This request to cover the time period 1 January 2020 to 8 January 2020. 2) Copies of all records held by the Reception and Integration Agency referring or relating to a video of sleeping arrangements at the East End Hotel in Portalington. This request to cover the time period 1 January 2020 to 8 January 2020.
- Received —Decided 21 April 2020GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
Copies of all internal records held referring or relating to the issue of block booking of visa appointments by third parties. This request to cover the period 1 September 2019 to 25 February 2020. This should include internal emails, any submissions, reports, memos, notes, or other such review or explanatory documents. For avoidance of doubt, it is the issue discussed in the following newspaper article to which this request refers: https://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/visa- renewals-unofficial-operators-earn-thousands-by-block-booking-site- 1.4118454
- Received —Decided 20 April 2020Part-GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
All representations to the Minister for Justice, and the Minister's replies, in relation to the Children and Family Relationships Act (2015), during the period Feb 1, 2014 to April 6, 2015 and the period Feb 1, 2019 to January 31, 2020.
- Received —Decided 20 April 2020Part-GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
A copy of all correspondence (including emails) to and from Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan since January 2019, in relation to the death of a named person in Monaghan in 2011.
- Received —Decided 20 April 2020RefusedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
1) Any correspondence between the Department of Justice and the Dublin Airport Authority regarding the waiting times in checking persons passports in Dublin Airport for the years of 2018, 2019 and to 24 February 2020. 2) Any correspondence between the Department of Justice and any airlines regarding the waiting times in checking persons passports in Dublin Airport for the years of 2018, 2019 and to 24 February 2020.
- Received —Decided 17 April 2020GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
The number of men and women employed by the Department in each of the following salary bands. Please state how many workers in each category are part-time. Employees will be assumed to be full time
- Received —Decided 17 April 2020Part-GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
Copies of all representations received by the Department relating to minimum stake and maximum payouts on gambling machines. This request to cover the period 1 January 2019 to 16 December 2019.
- Received —Decided 17 April 2020Part-GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
A. The number of refusals of permission to enter Ireland (leave to land) in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 B. A breakdown of the nationalities of those who were refused permission to enter, for each year.
- Received —Decided 17 April 2020GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
Copies of any briefings, memos, submissions, or other such records created for any of the Ministers at your Department relating to the contracting and opening of a direct provision centre in Tullamore, Co Offaly. Copies of any records held in the email account/official mobile phone of Minister Flanagan relating to the contracting and opening of the above direct provision centre. Both parts of this request to cover the period 1 November 2019 to 19 February 2020.
- Received —Decided 17 April 2020Part-GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
Minutes of the meetings of the Abhaile scheme Steering Board, held in 2018 and 2019, and to date in 2020.
- Received —Decided 16 April 2020Part-GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
All minutes of board meetings held during 2019. If you do not have a board, the board-equivalent body will suffice, i.e., governing authority, management committee, etc.
- Received —Decided 16 April 2020RefusedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
All representations to the Minister for Justice, and the Minister's replies, in relation to the Assisted Reproduction Bill (2017) during the period January 1, 2017 to January 31, 2020.
- Received —Decided 16 April 2020Part-GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
All records held referring or relating to issues surrounding driving licences for residents of direct provision or those seeking international protection in Ireland. This request to cover the period 1 June 2019 to 18 February 2020.
- Received —Decided 16 April 2020GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
Copies of any correspondence (emails, letters, memos or reports) between the Office of the Data Protection Commissioners and the Department of Justice since August 1st, 2019 relating to resources, budgets, staffing and office accommodation for the DPC.
- Received —Decided 16 April 2020GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
• The number of deportation orders signed/issued in 2019 - with a breakdown by nationality. • The number of people deported by the State in 2019 - with a breakdown by nationality. • The amount of money spent on flights deporting foreign nationals in (i) 2017, (ii) 2018 and (iii) 2019.
- Received —Decided 14 April 2020RefusedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
All responses to the following consultation: https://www.gov.ie/en/consultation/b8de16-public-consultation-on- flexible-working/
- Received —Decided 9 April 2020RefusedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
All records, correspondence, documents, reports, minutes of meetings etc. which relate to any and all appointment or nominations of a named person as counsel to the Minister for Justice and Equality in advisory,
- Received —Decided 8 April 2020Part-GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
Any material collated at a roundtable on gambling policy/legislation in 2019. Any correspondence between the Department and any gambling company in the last 12 months. Any internal memos/reports created as a result of discussions on gambling legislation
- Received —Decided 8 April 2020GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
1) The amount paid to each coroner around the country in the calendar years 2018 and 2019. 2) A list of which of these coroners are considered full-time, and also a separate list indicating the number of cases/days which the part-time coroners work for. 3) A list of fees payable to part-time coroners for cases or other duties relating to their role.
- Received —Decided 8 April 2020GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
• The number of people who took part in the voluntary assistance return programme last year. • The amount of money that was spent on the scheme last year broken down according to flights, grants etc. • A list of the countries to which participants returned last year. • The top five countries to which participants returned and how many returned to each of those five.
- Received —Decided 7 April 2020RefusedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
Any records, decisions, considerations, policies, instructions, emails, letters, correspondence or statements in relation to immigration checks at Dublin airport and instructions given by the Department of Justice to airlines to take back individual before they claim asylum. This could include any revised policy or internal guidelines or instructions about reducing asylum claims from Georgia or Albania applicants.
- Received —Decided 7 April 2020RefusedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
Copies of the report in which the Garda Commissioner claimed the Provisional I.R.A. Army Council still exists and control's the political wing - Sinn Fein
- Received —Decided 7 April 2020RefusedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
An anonymised list of the small business grants awarded and the purposes for which they were used.
- Received —Decided 2 April 2020GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
1. Total numbers of Pakistani nationals applied each year for Irish citizenship since 2010, through: (i) Naturalisation and (ii) Registration.
- Received —Decided 2 April 2020GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
1. Standard of operating procedure/policy and instructions to the staff dealing with naturalisation and registration applications. 2. Time frame and decision making mechanism applicable to different type of applications based on: (i) Irish Association, (ii) Irish Descent, (iii) Irish spouse/partner, (iv) Five years qualifying in the state. 3. Total numbers of applications awaiting decisions for each year since 2010.
- Received —Decided 31 March 2020Part-GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
All documents concerning the topics of “blood donation” and “sex work” or “prostitution” from meetings between government departments in relation to the development of the National LGBTI+ Inclusion Strategy 2019-2021 including list of actions for implementation as circulated for consideration to a Consultative Committee comprising NGOs.
- Received —Decided 31 March 2020RefusedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
•Any correspondence between the Department/Minister and Facebook, Twitter, Google Intel or Tik Tok in relation to fibre-optic, ocean-bed cables that connect Europe to America. •Any internal memos/documents created/minutes arising out of the same.
- Received —Decided 30 March 2020Part-GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
1. All documentation related to the appointment of named persons as consultation/workshop facilitators for the development of the National LGBTI+ Inclusion Strategy 2019-2021. 2.All documentation collected/gathered by named persons and/or Department of Justice & Equality staff at consultations/workshops for the Strategy in Cork, Dublin, Dundalk, Galway, Limerick, with the intersex community, Travellers, asylum seekers, migrants and refugees, and the deaf community.
- Received —Decided 27 March 2020RefusedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
Copies of any correspondence between the Department/RIA and the operators of the Mount Trenchard direct provision centre. This request is to cover the period 1 January 2019 to 3 February 2020.
- Received —Decided 26 March 2020Part-GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
The following information in respect of Garda records on the bombing of Belturbet, Co. Cavan in 1972 and violence along the border 1972-75: (a) In view of the fact that it is now 48 years since the blast, can you please provide full records of the Garda investigation into the car bomb in Belturbet on December 28, 1972. (b) Please provide all correspondence between the Garda Commissioner’s Office and the RUC in relation to the Belturbet/Clones/Pettigo bombings on that date. (c) We understand the Garda Commissioner wrote to RUC Assistant Chief Constable in September 1974 in relation to named persons following the 1972 murder of named person. Please provide any subsequent Garda correspondence in relation to these individuals. (d) Please advise us if information on the named persons referred to in the Commissioner’s letter was subsequently provided to the Barron Commission in respect of loyalist paramilitary involvement in cross- border bombings from 1972-1976. (e) From the 2003 Barron Report we understand that an internal Garda memo dated 1 July 1975 requested a named person, a suspect and reportedly a member of the UVF, be interviewed about bombings in Belturbet, Swanlinbar, Pettigo and Clones. Further, on 11 December 1975 An Garda Síochána wrote to RUC Assistant Chief Constable Johnston asking that the named person be interviewed specifically in