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FOI Requests — 3,015 records (page 49 of 61)

  • Received
    Decided 7 February 2018
    Refused
    Request Reference 156/796/2017
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    To furnish all records pertaining to Irish companies approved to receive funds during the period 1 July 2015 and 31 October 2017 as a result of applications made under Immigrant Investment Programme or the Start‐Up Entrepreneur Programme as operated by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service.

  • Received
    Decided 6 February 2018
    Refused
    Request Reference 156/757/2017
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    In her address to the Justice Committee this morning (06/12/17), Acting Secretary General Oonagh McPhilips referred to the following in relation to implementing the Toland Report: ** Earlier this year external experts were contracted to take a stock break of progress to date to assist going ahead ** A review of our structure has also been completed again with help from external expertise and this was recently approved by the external management board. I am requesting, under the Freedom of Information Act, the above findings along with any other reports/reviews

  • Received
    Decided 2 February 2018
    Refused
    Request Reference 156/063/2018
    Requester Type Elected-Oireachtas
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    Copy of the advice given by the AG to former Minister Frances Fitzgerald in relation to the setting up of a Commission of Investigation into the alleged cover up of sex crime by a named person.

  • Received
    Decided 31 January 2018
    Refused
    Request Reference 156/003/2018
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    Details of the pension arrangements and/or lump sum of the former Secretary General Mr Noel Waters to include details of any added years or similar added to his service for the purpose of pension calculation.

  • Received
    Decided 29 January 2018
    Refused
    Request Reference 156/015/2018
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    An update on the inquiry taking place into the death of named person in 1984 and any information that can be made public at this time.

  • Received
    Decided 29 January 2018
    Part-Granted
    Request Reference 156/777/2017
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    All correspondence between the Reception and Integration Agency and the Mosney Unlimited Company/Mosney Direct Provision Centre and its agents/directors in 2017 in relation to the introduction of a ‘points’ system for residents of the Centre to ‘purchase’ food or other services. All complaints (redacted of personal information where necessary) received by the Department/Reception and Integration Agency in 2017 regarding the introduction of such a points scheme at the Mosney Direct Provision Centre. A copy of the national guidelines regarding the allocation of ‘points for food’ at direct provision centres as referred to by a named person of the Mosney Centre in a verbal briefing to President Michael D. Higgins during his visit to the Centre on 18 December 2017.

  • Received
    Decided 29 January 2018
    Refused
    Request Reference 156/794/2017
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    All records ‐ to include but not limited to Department/private web based e‐mails, text messages, WhatsApp or other social media messaging services ‐ relating to the protected disclosure made in relation to the incident involving a named person on 24 June 2017.

  • Received
    Decided 25 January 2018
    Refused
    Request Reference 156/026/2018
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    Any documents, including correspondence, memorandum, briefings, minutes or submissions, addressing potential constitutional or legal obstacles to carrying out the Government's plans to remove the so‐ called Baptism barrier at Catholic schools.

  • Received
    Decided 25 January 2018
    Part-Granted
    Request Reference 156/725/2017
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    All correspondence sent and received by the Department in the last 12 months concerning the ban on the sale of alcohol on Good Friday.

  • Received
    Decided 25 January 2018
    Part-Granted
    Request Reference 156/773/2017
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    Copies of all minutes and agendas for the interdepartmental taskforce on the Supreme Court Judgment, from 1 July to 21 November 2017.

  • Received
    Decided 23 January 2018
    Refused
    Request Reference 156/002/2018
    Requester Type Other
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    A copy of the following: Any and all correspondence, electronic mails, invoices, reports, draft reports, telephone communication, official documentation, statements, files, records (digital or in paper form), green and white papers, audits outsourced (if any) memorandums of understanding, planning applications, future acquisition of land and financial accounts (if any) to do with the construction of an Immigration Detention Centre which, according to ‘THE IRISH TIMES’, is to be built in or near the vicinity of Dublin Airport

  • Received
    Decided 23 January 2018
    Part-Granted
    Request Reference 156/611/2017
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    All representations made by serving or former members of An Garda Síochána to the Minister/Secretary General in relation to the Employment Control Framework within An Garda Síochána. All replies to such representations.

  • Received
    Decided 23 January 2018
    Part-Granted
    Request Reference 156/641/2017
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    In respect of the Criminal Justice Bill 2016 ‐ (changed from Bail (Amendment) Bill 2016: 1) Letters/emails/communications etc. sent to the Minister (or his representatives in the Department of Justice) from 2016 to 20 October 2017 from Oireachtas members/councillors, and any responses given. 2) Letters/emails/communications/submissions etc. sent to the Minister from 2016‐to 20 October 2017 from any

  • Received
    Decided 23 January 2018
    Part-Granted
    Request Reference 156/673/2017
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    Correspondence, minutes, WhatsApp messages, etc. relating to interactions between members of the judiciary and the Department on matters connected to the Judicial Appointments Commission Bill and the Judicial Council Bill from April 2017 to 6 November 2017.

  • Received
    Decided 23 January 2018
    Part-Granted
    Request Reference 156/721/2017
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    All correspondence from GSOC or other parties, from the period May 2016 22 November 2017, relating to GSOC’s request for a copy of the O’Higgins Inquiry transcript, including any briefing or note prepared on this matter for the Minister.

  • Received
    Decided 19 January 2018
    Part-Granted
    Request Reference 156/688/2017
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    Copies of all correspondence between the Department and the Garda Commissioner / An Garda Síochána in relation to terror attacks in the UK to 9 November 2017 and copies of all correspondence between the Department and members of the public in relation to terror attacks in the UK to 09 November 2017.

  • Received
    Decided 18 January 2018
    Refused
    Request Reference 156/032/2018
    Requester Type Other
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    A sound recording file of the 14 minute long telephone call between former Garda Commissioner Noirín O'Sullivan and former Minister for Justice and Equality, Frances Fitzgerald which occurred on the 15th of May, 2015. I would also like a transcript of the recording sent to this email address.

  • Received
    Decided 16 January 2018
    Granted
    Request Reference 156/595/2017
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    Access to the report on the reopening of Garda stations that resulted in the decision to reopen Stepaside Garda Station. Access to any correspondence between Minister Ross and either Minister Flanagan or former Minister Fitzgerald since the start of 2016 in relation to Stepaside Garda Station.

  • Received
    Decided 15 January 2018
    Refused
    Request Reference 156/792/2017
    Requester Type Other
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    The names and addresses of every individual that has been, to 27 December 2017, made an Irish citizen by naturalisation or a list of the issues of Iris Oifigiuil in which these details have been published.

  • Received
    Decided 12 January 2018
    Part-Granted
    Request Reference 156/679/2017
    Requester Type Other
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    Complaints made in relation to the accommodation centres at Richmond Court, Longford, Great Western House, Galway and Globe House, Sligo from January 2017 to November 2017.

  • Received
    Decided 10 January 2018
    Part-Granted
    Request Reference 156/659/2017
    Requester Type Other
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    Reference Contract Signed on 17 August 2016 between the Minister for Justice & Equality, the Commissioner of the Garda Síochána and a named company. Specifically Requested ‐ All Records, documents, emails, memos whether paper or electronic relating to: 1. Business Case made for the placing of this Contract 2. Cost Benefit Analysis Conducted 3. Correspondence with/from the Garda Síochána on the topic 4. Road Safety Benefits adduced 5. Any Alternative Enforcement Methodology considered 6. Any comparative study conducted between the relative merits of using the Garda Robot Vans as Distinct from the

  • Received
    Decided 29 December 2017
    Refused
    Request Reference 156/678/2017
    Requester Type Business/Interest Group
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    All submissions made to the Minister of State in the Department of Justice regarding the Gambling Control Bill 2013 and/or the General Scheme of the Civil Law and Courts (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017 including in particular the submission/s made by or on behalf of a named organisation.

  • Received
    Decided 29 December 2017
    Refused
    Request Reference 156/764/2017
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    A copy of the resignation letter of a named Judge.

  • Received
    Decided 27 December 2017
    Refused
    Request Reference 156/745/2017
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    1. All internal communications (communications are defined as including but not limited to: email, SMS, messenger services, WhatsApp, social media, memos, telephone recordings, meeting minutes) relating to the discovery process for the Charleton Tribunal. 2. All internal communications relating to the search on 9 November 2017 for the email dated 15 May 2015 to Frances Fitzgerald about the legal strategy targeting a named person. 3. All internal communications relating to the trawl of documents ordered in the week commencing 20 November 2017 by the Taoiseach Leo Varadkar. 4. All communications between the Gardaí and the Department relating to the Charleton Tribunal. 5. All communications relating to the discovery process for the Charleton Tribunal to or from Secretary General Waters and: a. the Gardaí b. the Department c. the Minister’s office 6. All communications to or from Secretary General Waters the Gardaí relating to the Charleton Tribunal.

  • Received
    Decided 22 December 2017
    Part-Granted
    Request Reference 156/672/2017
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    All interactions (correspondence, minutes of meetings, WhatsApp messages, etc.) between the members of the Legal Services Regulatory Authority and the Department from May 2017 to 6 November 2017.

  • Received
    Decided 22 December 2017
    Refused
    Request Reference 156/714/2017
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    All of the correspondence held by the Department relating to the legal strategy of the former Garda Commissioner towards a named person.

  • Received
    Decided 22 December 2017
    Refused
    Request Reference 156/715/2017
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    Copies of the correspondence addressed to the then Minister for Justice, Frances Fitzgerald, T.D., in May 2014 – referred to by the Minister on RTE Radio 1’s “News at one” on 21 November 2017 – concerning the O’Higgins Commission.

  • Received
    Decided 22 December 2017
    Refused
    Request Reference 156/719/2017
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    All internal Departmental correspondence on issues pertaining to the O'Higgins Commission.

  • Received
    Decided 22 December 2017
    Refused
    Request Reference 156/767/2017
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    Copies of any correspondence between the Department and An Garda Síochána relating to the preparation of a report on the use of a private Gmail address by the former Garda Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan.

  • Received
    Decided 21 December 2017
    Part-Granted
    Request Reference 156/642/2017
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    1. Letters/emails/communications/submissions etc. sent to the Minister from 2014 to 20 October 2017 from any interested party that discuss the Criminal Justice (Community Sanctions) Bill 2014. This includes (but is not limited to) any other State body or any other representative of a State body; the Law Society; the Bar Council; the Association of Judges in Ireland; any current or former judge; any solicitor or barrister acting in an individual capacity. 2. Memoranda of any minutes of meetings between the Minister from 2014 to 20 October 2017 with any interested party that discussed this Bill. This includes (but is not limited to): any State body or any other representative of a State body; the Law Society; the Bar Council; the Association of Judges in Ireland; any current or former judge; any solicitor or barrister acting in an individual capacity. 3. Memoranda of any internal meetings of the Department of Justice from 2014 to 20 October 2017 that discussed this Bill.

  • Received
    Decided 21 December 2017
    Granted
    Request Reference 156/687/2017
    Requester Type Other
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    1. How many legal representatives does the Department of Justice have serving overseas? 2. What allowances are they entitled to claim (not looking for the sum or figure) just the allowances they can claim. 3. Whether they are attached to the embassy or work on an independent basis.

  • Received
    Decided 21 December 2017
    Refused
    Request Reference 156/716/2017
    Requester Type Elected-Oireachtas
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    1. All notes and memoranda of meetings, conversations and telephone calls between the former Garda Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan and/or her legal team with senior officials in the Department of Justice in relation to the legal strategy to be adopted in the O’Higgins Commission. 2. All emails between the former Garda Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan and /or her legal team with senior officials in the Department of Justice in relation to the legal strategy to be adopted in the O’Higgins Commission. 3. All notes and memoranda of meetings, conversations and telephone calls between senior officials in the Department of Justice and the then Minister for Justice in relation to the legal strategy to be adopted in the O’Higgins Commission.

  • Received
    Decided 21 December 2017
    Refused
    Request Reference 156/744/2017
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    1. Any records of contacts between the Minister, Junior Ministers and Secretary General or his office in the Department concerning documents pertaining to the Charleton Tribunal or a named person between the dates of Friday 10 November 2017 and Tuesday 21 November 2017. 2. Also to include records of any contacts with An Garda Síochána relating to the above and during the same dates. 3. Also to include records of any contacts (if any) with Fianna Fáil relating to the above and during the same dates.

  • Received
    Decided 20 December 2017
    Part-Granted
    Request Reference 156/342/2017
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    Copies of all correspondence to/from each member of the Commission on the Future of Policing in Ireland.

  • Received
    Decided 20 December 2017
    Granted
    Request Reference 156/701/2017
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    1. Details of all payments made by the Department to staff or former staff who have made claims against the Department through the Courts, Workplace Relations Commission or Employment Appeals Tribunal in each of the years 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 and to 14 November in 2017. 2. A breakdown of payments ordered by the individual authorities – i.e. the High Court, Circuit Court, District Court, WRC, EATs, etc. 3. A breakdown of the reason for the claims and the resulting payments e.g. assault, sexual harassment, bullying personal injury, etc. 4. Details of the legal fees paid by the Department in relation to claims made by former or current staff in the same years. 5. A breakdown that includes the name of the solicitors/law firms used in the Department’s defence and the sums paid to them.

  • Received
    Decided 15 December 2017
    Refused
    Request Reference 156/709/2017
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    All correspondence and logs of calls between Minister for Justice/Secretary General of the Department of Justice and the Garda Commissioner in May 2015. All correspondence relating to the treatment of whistle-blowers during the months of May and June 2015 between the parties.

  • Received
    Decided 14 December 2017
    Refused
    Request Reference 156/668/2017
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    All correspondence between the Department of Justice/the Minister for Justice and former Deputy State Pathologist Dr. Khalid Jaber between January 2013 and 2nd November 2017. All documents and internal communications within the Department

  • Received
    Decided 14 December 2017
    Granted
    Request Reference 156/696/2017
    Requester Type Elected-Oireachtas
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    1. Details of all correspondence in 2014, 2015, 2016 & 2017 to the Department of Justice in relation to the need to introduce penalties or legislation relating to damage to, or theft of life saving equipment such as lifebuoys or defibrillators. 2. Details of any meetings with lobby or campaign groups on this matter during the same period. 3. Details of all meetings at which penalties or legislation relating to damage to, or theft of life saving equipment such as lifebuoys or defibrillators were discussed during the same period. 4. Minutes of any meetings held at which penalties or legislation relating to damage to, or theft of life saving equipment such as lifebuoys or defibrillators were discussed during the same period. 5. All correspondence in 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017 relating to damage to, or theft of life saving equipment such as lifebuoys or defibrillators.

  • Received
    Decided 14 December 2017
    Part-Granted
    Request Reference 156/697/2017
    Requester Type Elected-Oireachtas
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    1. Details of all correspondence in 2014, 2015, 2016, & 2017 to the Department of Justice in relation to attacks or assaults on members of the emergency services. 2. Details of any meetings with representative organisations representing emergency services and frontline workers during the same period. 3. Details of all meetings at which attacks on members of the emergency services were discussed during the same period. 4. Minutes of any meetings held at which attacks on members of the emergency services were discussed during the same period. 5. All correspondence in 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017 relating assaults on members of the emergency services.

  • Received
    Decided 13 December 2017
    Refused
    Request Reference 156/693/2017
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    Documentation regarding the criteria for the selection of refugees for settlement in Ireland through your organisation. I am seeking any documentation and correspondence since 2015 till 11 November 2017 which revolves around the topic of criteria which may potentially be used in the selection process for refugees. In particular, but not limited to, I am seeking information regarding criteria related to religion which is contained within email correspondence between July and October 2015.

  • Received
    Decided 12 December 2017
    Part-Granted
    Request Reference 156/724/2017
    Requester Type Elected-Oireachtas
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    All correspondence, notes, minutes, record of phone calls, reports or any other material relating to Stepaside Garda station reopening from February 2016 to 22 November 2017.

  • Received
    Decided 7 December 2017
    Refused
    Request Reference 156/690/2017
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    How much funding was Aramark given to fund direct provision centres in 2016?

  • Received
    Decided 6 December 2017
    Granted
    Request Reference 156/691/2017
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    An itemised breakdown of all monies spent on social media advertising in each of the past three years. This would include the name of each social media site, as well as the reason for each advertisement campaign.

  • Received
    Decided 5 December 2017
    Granted
    Request Reference 156/539/2017
    Requester Type Other
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    1. The number of staff employed by Financial Shared Services at 31 December 2012, 31 December 2013, 31 December 2014 and 31 December 2015 respectively. 2. The number of staff transferred from the Department of Justice Financial Shared Services to the Payroll Shared Service Centre (PSSC) of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform for the years ending 31 December 2014, 31 December 2015 and 31 December 2016, respectively.

  • Received
    Decided 4 December 2017
    Part-Granted
    Request Reference 156/596/2017
    Requester Type Other
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    All internal and cross Departmental correspondence pertaining to the writing and passing of the Criminal Justice (Misuse of Information Systems) Bill 2017. Copies of all correspondence received by the Minister, their special advisors, parliamentary staff and Department officials that pertains to the Bill from An Garda Síochána, the Defence Forces, private companies and inputs from citizens. Copies of all internally published information and literature and when feasible, copies of all information delivered to Department officials, the Minister and their staff, and associated organisations by third party individuals and organisations.

  • Received
    Decided 4 December 2017
    Part-Granted
    Request Reference 156/663/2017
    Requester Type Other
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    1. The number of asylum seekers that have entered the country of Ireland between the years of 2011 and 2016. 2. The number of Asylum seekers who were granted Refugee Status or Subsidiary Protection versus those who were not. 3. The rough number of people present in Mosney and the Balseskin accommodation centres today. 4. The amount, per annum, that is put into the maintenance of the two named accommodation centres. 5. How much it costs the Department of Justice to deport people per annum.

  • Received
    Decided 4 December 2017
    Part-Granted
    Request Reference 156/664/2017
    Requester Type Other
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    A copy of all complaints issued by the residents (asylum- seekers/refugees) of the emergency reception and orientation centre in Ballaghaderreen since it opened as such earlier this year.

  • Received
    Decided 4 December 2017
    Refused
    Request Reference 156/698/2017
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    The following data on asylum applications in 2017: 1. The number of applications for asylum in Ireland by nationality, 2. The number of people granted asylum on first instance in Ireland by nationality, 3. The number of people granted asylum on final decision in Ireland by nationality, 4. The number of people refused asylum on first instance in Ireland by nationality, 5. The number of people refused asylum on final decision in Ireland by nationality, 6. The number of asylum seekers transferred from Ireland under the Dublin regulation by nationality and by country of destination. 7. The number of applications for family reunification granted in 2017 The following data on immigration enforcement in 2017: 1. The number of people refused entry (refused leave to land) to Ireland under the following headings: by location of refusal – refused at land,

  • Received
    Decided 30 November 2017
    Part-Granted
    Request Reference 156/627/2017
    Requester Type Other
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    1. The number of child protection incidents and concerns from 1 January 2015 to 13 October 2017 at reception/accommodation centres, including detail of the concern/alleged incident and the centre where it occurred/is alleged to have occurred. 2. All correspondence (letter, memo and email) between RIA’s head and/or principal officer and TUSLA, Department of Children, Department of Justice (Minister, Secretary General and Assistant Secretary for Asylum Services), Department of Education, Ombudsman for Children, Ombudsman for Children and HSE on any matter connected to child

  • Received
    Decided 30 November 2017
    Part-Granted
    Request Reference 156/660/2017
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    1. Procurement/tender documents related to the Department of Justice purchase of hardware/software from a named company for use at eGates at Dublin airport. 2. I am also requesting any relevant email correspondence between the Department and a named company regarding the procurement.