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Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

FOI Requests — 3,015 records (page 34 of 61)

  • Received
    Decided 13 January 2020
    Part-Granted
    Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2019-0766
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    All correspondence between the directors of a named company and the Department of Justice and the Minister for Justice during the period from 1 January 2017 – 8 November 2019

  • Received
    Decided 13 January 2020
    Part-Granted
    Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2019-0811
    Requester Type Business/Interest Group
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    1. A list of all payments made on your behalf to any supplier in a currency other than the Euro, for the first three quarters of this calendar year. Showing the currency paid, the amount paid, a brief description of what was being procured, the bank/FX payment provider who processed the transaction, the cost of the transaction ( the cost of the foreign currency in Euro's ) , the cost of any additional bank charges. 2. A list of all receipts in a foreign currency other than the Euro, charged by you to any customer.

  • Received
    Decided 13 January 2020
    Part-Granted
    Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2019-0862
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    1. Copies of records indicating the sums spent on administrative costs since the inception of the Disclosures Tribunal. 2. An itemised list of these administrative costs, explaining the reason costs were incurred.

  • Received
    Decided 13 January 2020
    Refused
    Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2019-0869
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    Records relating to the Review of the Immigrant Investor Programme.

  • Received
    Decided 13 January 2020
    Refused
    Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2019-0893
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    1. A breakdown in the cost of preparing the proposed direct provision centre on Achill for habitation, including the removal of rubbish from the site.

  • Received
    Decided 13 January 2020
    Granted
    Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2020-0007
    Requester Type Other
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    Request for all records, written or electronic, in the Department of Justice for records that outline and detail the procedure followed by officials of the Department in dealing with communications from the public.

  • Received
    Decided 13 January 2020
    Refused
    Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2020-0014
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    Any briefing notes or correspondence provided to the Minister regarding the proposals contained in the Official Languages (Amendment) Bill 2019.

  • Received
    Decided 13 January 2020
    Refused
    Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2020-0018
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    Copies of all records held by the Reception & Integration Agency referring or relating to why inspection reports are no longer published to the Department of Justice website.

  • Received
    Decided 10 January 2020
    Part-Granted
    Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2019-0659
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    1. Correspondence from the Office of DPP and An Garda Síochána in relation to "The Working Group to consider alternatives approaches to the possession of drugs for personal use" and subsequent Government/Department proposals. 2. Briefing notes and memos for the Minister for Justice in relation to the committee, its report and subsequent Department/Government proposals.

  • Received
    Decided 10 January 2020
    Granted
    Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2019-0795
    Requester Type Client
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    All replies that your Department issued in relation to registered post referred to in Parliamentary Question 40412/10, both that of the 16 September and any subsequent reply.

  • Received
    Decided 9 January 2020
    Part-Granted
    Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2019-0746
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    All records related to this entry in the lobbying database: https://www.lobbying.ie/return/52335/microsoft-ireland-operations-ltd

  • Received
    Decided 9 January 2020
    Granted
    Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2019-0777
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    A copy of letters sent to Minister Flanagan from National Association of Regional Game Councils Chairman in 2019.

  • Received
    Decided 9 January 2020
    Part-Granted
    Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2019-0873
    Requester Type Elected-Oireachtas
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    Any records relating to e-scooters or other powered personal transporters dated between 1 January 2018 and 4 December 2019.

  • Received
    Decided 9 January 2020
    Granted
    Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2020-0019
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    The total number of asylum seekers in direct provision who are currently working under the right to work in Ireland. The total number of applications made by asylum seekers living in direct provision centres for the right to work.

  • Received
    Decided 3 January 2020
    Part-Granted
    Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2019-0848
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    Copies of any briefings, submissions, or reports prepared for Minister Flanagan relating to the Family Law Act 2019 and its provisions on divorce.

  • Received
    Decided 27 December 2019
    Part-Granted
    Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2019-0687
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    • All internal correspondence and minutes / agendas of meetings between Department officials of level assistant principal and higher regarding the decision by the Attorney General to grant a new inquest into the Stardust disaster, dated between 25 September 2019 and the current date. • All briefing materials prepared for the Minister on the same subject over the same timeframe.

  • Received
    Decided 27 December 2019
    Part-Granted
    Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2019-0697
    Requester Type Other
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    Records on the decision not to extend adoptive leave benefits to male same-sex couples as part of the Parent's Leave and Benefits Bill 2019.

  • Received
    Decided 23 December 2019
    Refused
    Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2019-0529
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    All of the correspondence held by the Department relating to the Dunkerrin Arms direct provision centre for the last three years.

  • Received
    Decided 23 December 2019
    Part-Granted
    Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2019-0549
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    All correspondence, reports or information, including between officials and/or Ministers, about concern about gambling in Ireland over the last 12 months. This should include any outside correspondence, IE from the public, about the same.

  • Received
    Decided 23 December 2019
    Part-Granted
    Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2019-0654
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    All correspondence and any documents shared, minutes or internal discussion relating to the Seminar on the future licensing and regulation of gambling in Ireland held in Farmleigh in May. The records should include but not be limited to any emails, and any attachments therein, and mobile phone text messages including any messages via WhatsApp.

  • Received
    Decided 23 December 2019
    Granted
    Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2019-0753
    Requester Type Business/Interest Group
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    The Department of Justice published the Report of the Working Group on Legislation on Periodic Payment Orders on 22 April 2015. At page 22 of that Report there is reference to a Department of Finance Paper on Indexation of 22 August 2014. Page one of it, in turn, refers to two papers, dated 23 June and 30 July, 2014, prepared by the Civil Law Reform Division of the Department of Justice. Could I get copies of these two papers.

  • Received
    Decided 23 December 2019
    Refused
    Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2019-0764
    Requester Type Other
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    Any and all records containing the number of applications that were made by asylum seekers to transfer from or to Direct Provision Centres in 2017-2018 under the Freedom of Information Act 2014.

  • Received
    Decided 23 December 2019
    Granted
    Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2019-0771
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    Copies of any records held by the Department relating or referring to ongoing protests in Achill, Co Mayo relating to the possibility of a direct provision centre opening in the area.

  • Received
    Decided 23 December 2019
    Part-Granted
    Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2019-0779
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    Copies of internal Department correspondence, and correspondence between the Department and the Central Statistics Office, in relation to the National Sexual Violence Prevalence Survey and previous SAVI report from 2002, from 1 May 2019 to 8 November 2019.

  • Received
    Decided 23 December 2019
    Refused
    Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2019-0780
    Requester Type Other
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    Any and all records containing the number of applications that were rejected after being made by asylum seekers to transfer from or to Direct Provision Centres in 2017-2018.

  • Received
    Decided 23 December 2019
    Part-Granted
    Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2019-0790
    Requester Type Elected-Oireachtas
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    • All invoices in relation to spending on entertainment by the Department in 2019. • All invoices in relation to spending on make-up, cosmetics and haircare by the Department in 2019.

  • Received
    Decided 23 December 2019
    Part-Granted
    Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2019-0809
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    • Copies of the actual mileage claim forms submitted by each Minister, Minister of State at your Department for the calendar year 2019. • A spreadsheet/table indicating how much was paid in mileage to each Minister and Minister of State at your Department for the calendar year 2019.

  • Received
    Decided 23 December 2019
    Refused
    Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2019-0868
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    • Report on consultations with young people engaged in Garda Youth Diversion projects. • External evaluation of the Kerry Empowering Youth (KEY) service - A Kerry Garda Divisional model • Review of the Office of the State Pathologist • Review of the Immigrant Investor Programme • Report on consultations with young people for the new Youth Justice Strategy.

  • Received
    Decided 23 December 2019
    Part-Granted
    Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2019-0229
    Requester Type Other
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    The Department issued two calls for proposals for funding in 2018 relating to sex work, both under the Dormant Accounts Action Plan 2018. 1. Firstly a call for proposals to research and assess the safety and well-being of persons who engage in sexual activity for payment. 2. Secondly a call for proposals to raise awareness of the criminalisation of the purchase of sex and of the exploitation of persons who engage in sexual activity for payment

  • Received
    Decided 20 December 2019
    Part-Granted
    Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2019-0602
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    A copy of the background materials prepared for the appearance on 19 June last of the Deputy Secretary General, Oonagh Buckley, before the Joint Committee on Justice and Equality.

  • Received
    Decided 20 December 2019
    Refused
    Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2019-0742
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    • Policy documents relating to the selection process and criteria for potential direct provision centres/ accommodation used by the Reception and Integration Agency.

  • Received
    Decided 20 December 2019
    Refused
    Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2019-0744
    Requester Type Elected-Oireachtas
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    Any correspondence received by the Minister or members of his Department from the Garda Commissioner in relation to any potential new legislation and or legislative changes required in relation to the dangerous use of scrambler and quad bikes between 1 January 2019 and 31 October 2019. Furthermore, any correspondence between the Minister for Justice and Equality and his Ministerial colleagues in relation to the same matter to the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport, and details of any follow-up actions taken in response to this correspondence.

  • Received
    Decided 20 December 2019
    Part-Granted
    Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2019-0762
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    A list of all criminal legal-aid payments made to solicitors / barristers (by name) in (a) 2016, (b) 2017 (c) 2018 and (d) so far in 2019. I would like the payments broken down by year and the name of each solicitor / barrister.

  • Received
    Decided 20 December 2019
    Refused
    Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2019-0770
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    The cost of the identified murder trial to the taxpayer including legal aid fees.

  • Received
    Decided 20 December 2019
    Refused
    Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2019-0801
    Requester Type Elected-Oireachtas
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    All invoices in relation to external consultancy services procured by the Department in 2019.

  • Received
    Decided 20 December 2019
    Refused
    Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2019-0890
    Requester Type Other
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    • The Correct Name of (Security Regulator) • Correct Office Address • Phone No • Fax • E-Mail • Website

  • Received
    Decided 19 December 2019
    Part-Granted
    Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2019-0817
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    • The rate paid per night, per occupant, to those providing beds to the State under the emergency direct provision scheme. • A copy of a generic / anonymised contract with such a provider.

  • Received
    Decided 12 December 2019
    Part-Granted
    Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2019-0563
    Requester Type Elected-Oireachtas
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    • Internal correspondence between Department of Justice officials on the establishment of a Garda Insurance Fraud Unit from 1 August 2018 to 31 May 2019. • Briefings prepared for meetings of any Oireachtas Committee by Department of Justice officials insofar as that briefing refers to any aspect of a Garda Insurance Fraud Unit, from 1 August 2018 to 31 May 2019. • Correspondence (if any) between the Department of Finance and Department of Justice in relation to the establishment of a Garda Insurance Fraud Unit, from 1 August 2018 to 31 May 2019.

  • Received
    Decided 12 December 2019
    Part-Granted
    Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2019-0621
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    Any records dated between 8 January and 4 July 2018 relating to a policing plan for the pilot supervised injecting facility to be located at Merchants Quay Ireland.

  • Received
    Decided 12 December 2019
    Refused
    Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2019-0727
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    Correspondence between the Irish Prison Service and the Department, or its officials, on the impact of a no-deal Brexit on the European Arrest Warrant, and the British prisoners incarcerated in Ireland, and Irish prisoners incarcerated in the UK, on the foot of one. Sent between 1 January and 23 October 2019.

  • Received
    Decided 12 December 2019
    Part-Granted
    Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2019-0729
    Requester Type Other
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    I wish to make a request under the FOI Act 2014 regarding the membership of the group examining direct provision to be led by Dr Catherine Day. This request relates to: • List of members of this group; • All documentation (from Minister, officials, with other Departments) regarding persons/organisations who should be members of this group; • All documentation relating to inviting members of the group to partake, including any replies/discussions with these organisations/ individuals.

  • Received
    Decided 12 December 2019
    Refused
    Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2019-0760
    Requester Type Business/Interest Group
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    • Between 1 January 2018 and 1 June 2019, how many persons presented to Immigration Officials at both Shannon Airport and Dublin Airport, seeking asylum in Ireland but who did not have passports in their possession, and • of those so presenting how many were refused entry to Ireland.

  • Received
    Decided 12 December 2019
    Granted
    Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2019-0773
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    Copies of any records held by the Department relating or referring to protests that took place in Borrisokane, Co Tipperary relating to the possibility of a direct provision centre opening in the area.

  • Received
    Decided 12 December 2019
    Refused
    Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2019-0787
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    In 2005, the Department of Justice estimated the IRA’s global assets at €400 million. Please provide a copy of the document in which this was stated and also any press statements relating to this matter.

  • Received
    Decided 12 December 2019
    Granted
    Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2019-0827
    Requester Type Business/Interest Group
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    The Department of Justice official’s handwritten notes relating to a named company’s lobbying for changes to Ireland’s interception law as disclosed to a named person in the Sunday Business Post (published on 17 November 2019).

  • Received
    Decided 9 December 2019
    Part-Granted
    Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2019-0196
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    • A copy of all complaints issued by asylum-seekers based in the Richmond Court accommodation centre, Longford town, to the Department of Justice, or the Reception and Integration Agency, since 1 October 2018, and a copy of all correspondence issued in response. • A copy of all correspondence (including emails) between (to and from) named company which runs the Richmond Court centre, and the Department of Justice or the Reception and Integration Agency, about the Richmond Court centre, since 1 October 2018.

  • Received
    Decided 9 December 2019
    Granted
    Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2019-0716
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    A full transcript of the conversation which took place between former Minister for Justice John O’Donoghue and then Secretary General of the Department of Justice in November 1999 regarding the introduction of direct provision as a matter of “extreme urgency”.

  • Received
    Decided 9 December 2019
    Refused
    Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2019-0781
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    • Any correspondence/memos/briefings between this Department and any other elected representative regarding a named person in the period February 2019 and 13 November 2019. • The minutes of any meetings between this Department and any other elected representative regarding a named person from February 2019 and 13 November 2019.

  • Received
    Decided 5 December 2019
    Part-Granted
    Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2019-0640
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    Emails / minutes of meetings between Department of Justice officials and named company, the details of which were included on a return made on the lobbying register. https://www.lobbying.ie/return/50806/vodafone-ireland

  • Received
    Decided 5 December 2019
    Part-Granted
    Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2019-0657
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    Access to any records, including correspondence, memos or minutes, relating to meetings between named company and Ben Ryan during 2019. Details of this meeting are outlined here: https://www.lobbying.ie/return/50806/vodafone-ireland