Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
FOI Requests — 3,015 records (page 50 of 61)
- Received —Decided 29 November 2017Part-GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
1. Copies of any reports, submissions, memoranda or other such similar explanatory documents discussing the problem of moving asylum seekers from direct provision centres due to the risk of homelessness and difficulties of securing additional accommodation for them. 2. Details of how many asylum seekers fall into this category in the direct provision centre for each of the calendar months of 2016 and 2017.
- Received —Decided 28 November 2017Part-GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
In respect of the Road Traffic (Fixed Penalty – Drink Driving) Bill 2017, I am seeking the following records: 1. Letters/emails/communications/submissions etc. sent to the Minister from 2016 to 20 October 2017 from any interested party that discuss this Bill. 2. Memoranda of any minutes of meetings between the Minister from 2016 to October 2017 with any interested party that discussed this Bill. 3. Memoranda of any internal meetings of the Department of Justice from 2016 to October 2017 that discussed this Bill.
- Received —Decided 27 November 2017RefusedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
Information of the fees provided to the Mosney Holidays Direct Provision centre from January to June of 2017.
- Received —Decided 27 November 2017RefusedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
The length of time each of the asylum seekers in the direct provision centres in Longford and Athlone have been living in the centres.
- Received —Decided 27 November 2017RefusedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
All details, including reports, reviews and correspondence relating to the victim identification framework used in cases of people trafficking, and any revised national referral mechanism, between the period 1 January 2017 to 9 November 2017.
- Received —Decided 23 November 2017RefusedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
1. Please confirm the existence of studies/reports undertaken and/or commissioned by the Department of Justice and Equality (“the Department”) in relation to the potential implications of Brexit. 2. Please confirm the number of such reports. 3. Please identify the number of reports that were produced by civil servants within the Department. 4. Please identify the number of reports that were produced by external contractors. 5. For each of the reports please confirm the date of the commissioning of the report. 6. For each of the reports please confirm the date on which the report was completed. 7. For each of the reports please confirm if the report has been published. 8. If any of the reports have been completed but have not been published, please confirm whether they will be published.
- Received —Decided 22 November 2017Part-GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
Copies of all internal memos, policy documents, minutes, correspondence, and any other records concerning: The issuing of Irish Temporary / Exceptional Travel Documents to non- nationals residing in the State and The issuing of Irish Temporary / Exceptional Travel Documents to non- nationals who reside outside the State (such as family members of a Refugee/person with Subsidiary Protection status in respect of whom a family reunification application has been approved).
- Received —Decided 22 November 2017Part-GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
1. How many applications were referred to DNA testing each year for the past five years? 2. The duration and expiry date of the most recent contract. 3. The exact stage of the current tendering process and 4. How long it is expected for the current tendering process to complete.
- Received —Decided 22 November 2017RefusedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
1. Details of the use of accommodation by members of An Garda Síochána at Coolmore in County Tipperary. 2. Details of agreements, contracts or payments for accommodation between the Department of Justice (and/or An Garda Síochána) and Coolmore in County Tipperary. 3. Details outlining: the dates the accommodation at Coolmore was used by members of An Garda Síochána; the associated costs and associated receipts. The aforementioned information is sought during the period 1 January 2012 to 16 November 2017.
- Received —Decided 16 November 2017GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
Copies of any records held by your Department relating to the appearance or non-appearance of Minister Fitzgerald at the AGSI conference. To include copies of all correspondence between the Department and representative bodies relating to the above.
- Received —Decided 16 November 2017Part-GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
A record of all correspondence, letters, emails, briefing documents, phone calls, meetings between (i) the Minister/Minister's Office and (ii) Minister of State David Stanton/Minister of State's Office and representatives and lobbyists from and on behalf of the drinks industry in Ireland in relation to: the Public Health (Alcohol) Bill; sale and supply of intoxicating liquor on Good Friday; and tax and excise duty on intoxicating liquor.
- Received —Decided 15 November 2017Part-GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
1. A record of all correspondence, letters, emails, briefing documents and phone calls to and from the Minister’s office with a named company. 2. A record of all correspondence, letters, emails, briefing documents and phone calls to and from the Minister’s office with organisations about amending laws relating to the interception of communications. 3. A record of all correspondence, letters, emails, briefing documents and phone calls to and from the office of the Crime and Security division Assistant Secretary’s office with a named company about amending laws relating to the interception of communications. 4. A record of briefing documents prepared for the Minister about a named company. 5. A record of briefing documents prepared for the Minister about interception of communications laws. 6. Minutes and notes from meetings members of the Department had with a named company's representatives.
- Received —Decided 15 November 2017GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
1. The number of family reunification applications made to the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (within the Department of Justice) under the International Protection Act 2015. 2. The number of family reunifications granted by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (within the Department of Justice) under the International Protection Act 2015.
- Received —Decided 13 November 2017RefusedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
The letter mentioned in this entry in the lobbying register https://www.lobbying.ie/return/19715/law-society-of-ireland
- Received —Decided 10 November 2017Part-GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
1. Copies of all correspondence between Departmental officials and Ministers which reference unsuccessful efforts to procure additional Emergency Reception and Orientation Centres (EROCs) in Dublin, Meath, Kildare, Roscommon and Mayo, and of all correspondence sent from external sources to the Department in response to procurement offers for potential EROCs in these areas. 2. Copies of all correspondence between Departmental officials and Ministers which reference failure to find suitable accommodation in communities in a reasonable timeframe for those ready to exit EROCs in the aforementioned areas, and of all complaints sent from external sources to the Department relating to the same subject. 3. Copies of all correspondence between Departmental officials and Ministers which reference an inability to provide services to IRPP arrivals in the aforementioned areas whether in EROCs or in the community, and of all complaints sent from external sources to the Department relating to the same subject.
- Received —Decided 9 November 2017GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
A copy of the response that issued from your Department in respect of the provided request for information on the PR spend within your Department and bodies under its aegis from Martin Fraser of the Department of the Taoiseach.
- Received —Decided 7 November 2017RefusedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
Any correspondence between the Department of Justice/Minister for Justice and An Garda Síochána regarding the re-opening of Stepaside Garda Station, inclusive of any correspondence in relation to the interim report recommending its re-opening.
- Received —Decided 7 November 2017GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
A copy of the rules, regulations and relevant circulars and correspondence governing promotions on the basis of seniority and suitability within your Department and relating to the retention or the abolition of promotion on the basis of seniority and suitability within your Department. A copy of any circular, correspondence or instructions issued by the CPSA, the Department of Finance or the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, or any of their predecessors, to your Department concerning promotions on the basis of seniority and suitability within your Department and the retention or abolition of promotion on seniority and suitability within your Department. Please state whether your Department currently allows promotion on the basis of seniority and suitability. If your Department does not currently allow promotion on the basis of seniority and suitability please state when your Department abolished it and on what basis it abolished it. Please confirm if your Department was obliged to abolish seniority and suitability or whether it took the decision to do so of its own accord. Please provide all relevant documentation concerning this decision. If your Department allows promotion on the basis of seniority and suitability please state whether the promotions for those officers promoted are paid through the 1% PCW allowance or whether they are paid through the normal exchequer funding as per all other promotions. Please state whether your Department has ever discussed the abolition of promotion on seniority and suitability with the trade unions and if it has reached and signed an agreement with any of the trade unions in this regard. If it has signed such an agreement, please provide the details of
- Received —Decided 7 November 2017RefusedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
Any electronic and written correspondence from 6 May 2016 to 29 September 2017 between the Department of Justice (at Assistant Secretary level and above and to any Ministerial Offices) and 1. An Garda Síochána 2. The Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport in relation to the re-opening of Stepaside Garda Station.
- Received —Decided 1 November 2017RefusedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
All documents arising from any enquiries by the Department of Justice to the Equality Tribunal or the Workplace Relations Commission in connection with information related to wrongdoing by the Equality Tribunal in relation to case No DEC –E2012-037.
- Received —Decided 1 November 2017Part-GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
All documents arising from any enquiries by the Department of Justice to the Equality Tribunal or the Workplace Relations Commission in
- Received —Decided 31 October 2017RefusedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
For the period 25 May 2014 to 26 February 2017: All documentation relating to the site of the former Mother and Baby Home Tuam between the Department of Justice and Forensic Science Ireland and all employees, servants or agents of the foregoing to include all correspondence, memos, circulars, emails, whether sent by way of official email accounts or not, records of phone calls and however stored whether in hard copy or otherwise, which relate to the Tuam site generally and the discovery of human remains there in particular and touching on any matter of public policy published or otherwise in respect of the Tuam site.
- Received —Decided 27 October 2017RefusedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
Information supplied by Dublin maternity hospitals in the period of 2002 to 2004 that shows the nationality, race, ethnicity, residency status (or any combination of those characteristics) of expectant mothers in the care of those institutions and used to frame the wording of the Referendum on the Twenty-Seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004 (Irish Citizenship).
- Received —Decided 26 October 2017RefusedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
The number of legally held firearms in Donegal registered over the last five years, and a breakdown of the types of weapons. The number of legally held firearms registered in each county in 2017.
- Received —Decided 25 October 2017GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
1. How much has the Department spent on social media in 2016 and 2017? Is there a breakdown of that spend available? 2. How much was spent on boosting posts on social media in 2016 and 2017? 3. Does the Department have a social media team? If so, how many people are on it and how much do they cost the Department per year? 4. How much has the Department spent on photography or videos making costs in 2016 and 2017? Is there a breakdown of that spend available? 5. How much money has the Department spent on advertising (print, radio, TV or online) in 2016 and 2017? Is there a breakdown of that spend available?
- Received —Decided 25 October 2017Part-GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
Correspondence to and from the Department of Justice on the Judicial Council Bill from 2015 to30 August 2017.
- Received —Decided 25 October 2017RefusedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
Any and all records (including drafts thereof) generated by or held by the Department in respect of any determination on or consideration of administrative and/or non-statutory methods of discharging any legal fees in relation to any Commission of Investigation established pursuant
- Received —Decided 24 October 2017Part-GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
1. The amount that the Department of Justice paid each external company that provide direct provision accommodation in the years 2014, 2015, 2016 and to-date in 2017. 2. The dates where officials from the Department met with officials from each company that provides the accommodation to discuss performance issues and other issues; Also any minutes of such meeting and the names and grade of Departmental staff that were present at each meeting; If no minutes of such meeting were taken, why was that. 3. When the contract is due to expiry with each company that provides accommodation for direct provision personnel. 4. The names and grades of staff within the Department that are in charge of Direct Provision service.. 5. The robust steps that the Department of Justice are taken to ensure any costs incurred are best value for the Exchequer.
- Received —Decided 24 October 2017RefusedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
Correspondence between the Minister and the Minister of State between 1 August 2017 to the 6 October 2017.
- Received —Decided 20 October 2017Part-GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
All correspondence received from members of the judiciary (including from the Association of Judges of Ireland) and memos of any meetings with same concerning the Judicial Council Bill and/or the Judicial Appointments Commission Bill between March 2016 and 18 July 2017.
- Received —Decided 20 October 2017Part-GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
1. Copies of all correspondence between your Department and An Garda Síochána relating to the provision of a report to the Minister on false breath tests and errors in statistics. 2. Copies of all records – to include emails, memos, letters, handwritten notes, submissions, faxes, etc. – relating to the delay in providing this report to Minister Flanagan.
- Received —Decided 20 October 2017GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
1. The number of applications made for leave to remain in each of the years from 2006-2017. 2. The numbers of grants of leave to remain in each of the years from 2006-2017. 3. The number of deportation orders made in each of the years from 2006-2017.
- Received —Decided 20 October 2017Part-GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
Copies of all correspondence between An Garda Síochána and the Department of Justice regarding the preparation and publication of the report into incorrect breath test figures and the report into wrongfully issued summonses.
- Received —Decided 20 October 2017RefusedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
Copies of all correspondence between the Department and any of the Garda representative bodies (GRA, AGSI etc.) related to the issue of falsification of breath test figures.
- Received —Decided 20 October 2017RefusedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
All documents and photographs relating to the inquest into the death of a named person.
- Received —Decided 13 October 2017RefusedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
All correspondence between the Department of Justice and the Garda Síochána Analysis Service (GSAS) between 11 May 2016 and 4 October 2017 in relation to the Proposal to reopen six buildings previously utilized as Garda stations - 1st and 2nd interim reports.
- Received —Decided 12 October 2017Part-GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
1. Contract between the State and a named company. 2. Copy of response to tender by a named company. 3. Copy of all other information in your possession and specifically "Guidelines for Monitoring Location Selection" or any document relevant to that query, otherwise referred to as Standing Operating Procedures (SOPs).
- Received —Decided 12 October 2017GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
A list of the cost incurred by this Department to pay for Irish translation of documents, speeches, online content, contracts etc. for the years 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, and the year to end of June 2017.
- Received —Decided 10 October 2017Part-GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
The following records relating to the Criminal Legal Aid Scheme: 1. A breakdown of expenditure for the Criminal Legal Aid Scheme in Limerick court cases in 2017, up to 15 September 2017 and what companies, solicitors, barristers etc. this money went to. 2. A breakdown of expenditure for the Criminal Legal Aid Scheme in Limerick court cases in 2016, and what companies, solicitors, barristers etc. this money went to. 3. A breakdown of expenditure for the Criminal Legal Aid Scheme in Limerick court cases in 2015, and what companies, solicitors, barristers etc. this money went to. 4. A breakdown of expenditure for the Criminal Legal Aid Scheme in Limerick court cases in 2014, and what companies, solicitors, barristers etc. this money went to. 5. A breakdown of expenditure for the Criminal Legal Aid Scheme in Limerick court cases in 2013, and what companies, solicitors, barristers etc. this money went to.
- Received —Decided 10 October 2017GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
Details of the Contact Points in Ireland, as specified in the EU Directive, responsible for the provision in information to the European Commission for inclusion on the European Judicial Network website, especially that information relating to Procedural Time Limits.
- Received —Decided 10 October 2017RefusedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
All records on community based CCTV cameras within the borders of Dublin City. Specifically, the number of cameras, and where the cameras are situated in the city.
- Received —Decided 6 October 2017GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
1. Documentation and information relating to all efforts and attempts made by this State through the office of the Minister for Justice or otherwise, to set up, establish and/ or put in place a panel of nominated registered medical practitioners pursuant to Section 23(3) of the International Protection Act 2015. 2. Documentation and information, including any list which has been complied in respect of a panel of nominated registered medical practitioners pursuant to Section 23(3) of the International Protection Act 2015. 3. Documentation and information relating to the selection and appointment process of nominated registered medical practitioners included on the panel established pursuant to Section 23 (3) of the International Protection Act 2015. 4. Documentation and information in relation to the system and/or process in place for the determination, by the Minister and/or International Protection Officer, of matters falling within and/or potentially falling within Section 23(1) of the International Protection Act 2015.
- Received —Decided 6 October 2017RefusedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
The following documents covering the period of 1 January 2016 to 25 August 2017: 1. Records and available copies of any submissions or correspondence from the Central Bank of Ireland and other interested parties regarding the Immigrant Investor Programme. 2. Records and minutes of any meetings regarding the Immigrant Investor Programme. 3. Any and all briefing papers or internal memos regarding the Immigrant Investor Programme.
- Received —Decided 5 October 2017RefusedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
Copies of all minutes and reports created for and by the 'Evaluation Committee' of the Immigrant Investor Programme managed by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service within the Department of Justice over the period 1 January 2016 to 31 August 2017.
- Received —Decided 5 October 2017Part-GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
All information, contracts, service level agreements and arrangements that the Department of Justice have made over the past 10 years with a named person. This request to include all financial information, all contact email, phone records, written correspondence. All further correspondence with the local authorities and other agencies that were involved in these facilities.
- Received —Decided 4 October 2017RefusedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
All information / documentation regarding a named company and its applications to the Immigrant Investor Program (IIP) which was launched in 2012, during the period June 2016 to 31 August 2017.
- Received —Decided 4 October 2017RefusedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
The letter from David Hickson to Minister of State Stanton referred to in the following lobbying return: https://www.lobbying.ie/return/19443/gaming-leisure-association-of- ireland
- Received —Decided 3 October 2017Part-GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
1. Details of any communications, oral or hard copy, between the Attorney General and the Department of Justice relating to the conflict between Section 18(h) of the Interpretation Act and Regulation (EEC, EURATOM) No 1182/71 of the Council. 2. Details of any communications between the Department of Justice and the Attorney General relating to Ireland’s supplying of false information to the EU Commission for posting on the Procedural Time Limits section of the European Judicial Network website.
- Received —Decided 3 October 2017Part-GrantedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
1. All details of communications, within the last three years, with the Office of the Attorney General relating to Ireland’s non-compliance with Regulation (EEC, EURATOM) No 1182/71 of the Council of 3 June 1971 which sets the framework, for determining the rules applicable to periods, dates and time limits. 2. All details of communications with the Office of the Attorney General, within the last three years, of the posting by Ireland of false and incorrect information on the European Judicial Network website on matters relating to Procedural Time Limits. 3. All details of communications between the Department of Justice and the European Commission, or from any European Union body, regarding the posting by Ireland of false and incorrect information on the European Judicial Network website on matters relating to Procedural Time Limits.
- Received —Decided 3 October 2017RefusedDepartment of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
A list of all projects approved and rejected by the Immigrant Investor Program (IIP) which was launched in 2012, from the period June 2016 to 31 August 2017.