Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

All emails between UK Home Secretary Priti Patel and Minister Helen McEntee dated between 25 February 2022 and 15 March 2022 relating to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and resulting/emerging refugee response. All emails between the UK Home Office and The Department related to same dated between 25 February 2022 and 15 March 2022.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

1. Any internal briefings for the Minister, and minutes of meetings attended by the Minister, or Department officials regarding Review of Spent Convictions & Certain Disclosures Act since 2019 2. List of meetings including date and attendees attended by the Minister, or Department officials regarding Review of Spent Convictions & Certain Disclosures Act since 2019. 3. Minutes of meetings attended by the Minister, or Department officials regarding Review of Spent Convictions & Certain Disclosures Act since 2019. 4. Submissions from the public as part of the Public Consultation on Spent Convictions since 2019. 5. Any records, documents, results, or information derived by processing submissions from the public as part of the Public Consultation on Spent Convictions & Certain Disclosures act since 2019.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

The statistics of international students who transitioned from Stamp 1G to Stamp 4 in the last one year.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

Any documentation/records held by the Department in relation to the following: An Garda Síochána Fitness and Physical Competence Test, to include any reviews and evaluations of same. Timeframe 1 January 2010 to 14 February 2022.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

The statistics of international students who transitioned from Stamp 1G to Stamp 4 in the last one year.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

1. The overall cost up to 1 March 2021 of the Commission of Inquiry into matters surrounding a named person. 2. The breakdown of monies paid to 24 March 2022 to the various legal representatives at the Commission. 3. The amount of days the Commission has sat for since its inception.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

I am seeking copies of all report(s) issued by a named company, as part of consultancy work for the Department of Justice, concerning Youth Diversion projects.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

Minutes of meetings held between Taoiseach Leo Varadkar led team, alongside the Minister for Health Simon Harris TD,

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

All past refusal decision letters of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Tribunal in 2021. The number of decisions the Criminal Injuries Compensation Tribunal gave an extension of the 3 months deadline to in the past 2 years. All correspondence between the Chairperson of the CICT and the Department of Justice from 15 November 2021 to 15 February 2022.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

1. All correspondence between the Minister for Justice and TD Patrick O'Donovan from 11 January 2022 to 4 February 2022. 2. All correspondence between the Minister for Justice and the Minister of State with responsibility for the OPW (also Mr O'Donovan) from January 2022 to 4 February 2022.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

1. Logs and statistics of Nigerian students who must have sought asylum from 2017-2022 years during or after their study. 2. Statistics of Visa application, refusal, acceptance of such applications from 2017-2022.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

All of the correspondence and documents held by the Department for the last two years relating to the Istanbul Convention guideline to have 1 refuge space for every 10,000 people in Ireland.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

All records, to include emails and correspondence, relating to the European Commission's proposed abolition of bi- annual clock changes (summer time/winter time) and its potential impact, from November 2018 to 17 February 2022.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

Any relevant documents, minutes and correspondence relating to the amending of the Irish Language requirement for An Garda Síochána recruitment.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

Any correspondence between Department of Justice and An Garda Síochána regarding the €12m allocated towards the Garda Transport fleet budget in 2022 for the period of 1 October 2021 to 17 February 2022 inclusive.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

1. Any records held referring or relating to the DPC and allegations that it had lobbied EU data protection authorities. 2. Copies of any correspondence received or sent by the Department with regard to the above issue.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

The Departments costs related to paying companies outside of Government to dispose of documents in 2020 and 2021, with a breakdown of each year.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

1. Please provide information about the technologies currently in use along the UK / Irish border with the intention of prevention of illegal migration and/or border- related criminal activities. This includes, but is not limited to, video analytics software, drones/UAVs, facial recognition capable cameras. 2. Please provide information regarding the costs associated with each project. 3. Please outline the manufactures of each product purchased by the Home Office. 4. Please provide a copy of the most recent Data Privacy Impact Assessment completed related to these projects.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

1. Number of IT devices in your organisation (Please differentiate the devices ex: desktops, laptops, servers etc.). 2. Is your organisation planning to procure IT devices for 2022/23, 2023/24 and 2024/25. 3. Is your organisation planning to procure any IT Software applications for the above years.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

In relation to Data Protection Commission: 1. Number of IT devices in your organisation (Please differentiate the devices ex: desktops, laptops, servers etc.). 2. If your organisation is planning to procure IT devices for 2022/23, 2023/24 and 2024/25. 3. If your organisation is planning to procure any IT Software applications for the above years.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

1. Records showing the number of employee/official mobile devices - to include smartphones, laptops and tablets - reported lost by or stolen by employees/officials in 2020 and 2021.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

Correspondence between then Minister for Justice Alan Shatter TD and the State of Israel, including the Israeli Embassy in Dublin, between 9 March 2011 and 7 May 2014. This would include a list of correspondence and records of meetings with Israeli representatives during his term of office.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

1. All information and correspondence relating to a review of the criminal law (sexual offences) act 2017, specifically relating to sex work, brothel keeping and the criminalization of the purchase of sex from January 2021 to 4 February 2022. 2. All correspondence held by the Department relating to the "we live in a violent system" report on Ireland's prostitution laws carried out by Amnesty International.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

1. Any material held by the Department, relating to the scheme to regularise the immigration status of undocumented migrants, to be launched in January, which gives an estimate or analysis of the likely number of undocumented migrants in the country and/or the number who may apply for the regularization scheme. 2. Any correspondence regarding the scheme, including inter-departmental correspondences, that discuss the

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

1. Any internal briefings for the Minister For Justice Helen McEntee, and minutes of meetings attended by the Minister, or Department officials regarding the Citizens Assembly on Drugs. 2. List of meetings including date and attendees attended by the Minister For Justice Helen McEntee, or Department officials regarding the Citizens Assembly on Drugs. 3. Minutes of meetings attended by the Minister For Justice Helen McEntee, or Department officials regarding the Citizens Assembly on Drugs. 4. Any other records that relate to the Citizens Assembly on Drugs.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

The 'Report of Refusals to Land' for each year (2019, 2020, 2021) from 1 January 2019 to 31 December 2021.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

1. All correspondence between the officials in Department of Justice and officials in Hotline.ie on intimate image abuse since the implementation of Coco’s Law in 2021. 2. All briefing notes on the law since 2021 and the number of IIA reports and referrals to An Garda Síochána that the Department has been notified of.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

All records or minutes of meetings involving representatives of the OPW and representatives of An Garda Síochána on the matter of the Harcourt Square decant / Military Road build from 1 January 2021 to 19 January 2022

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

Copies of any/all guidelines/training documentation provided to or used by decision-making staff/officers when deciding applications for leave to remain pursuant to Section 3(3)(a) of the Immigration Act 1999.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

Copies of any reports, reviews, analyses, submissions, recommendations, memos, approval documents, cost- benefit analysis, or other such high-level documents relating to the Department scheme to regularise the status of undocumented migrants in Ireland.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

1. Any information relating to the Justice Minister’s Regularisation Scheme, particularly any emails or communications between Minister McEntee and any lawyer or other public servant (Government minister or otherwise) relating to the scheme’s constitutional legality. 2. Any information held regarding estimates of the number of illegal immigrants who might take advantage of the Government's new amnesty.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

All records in the Department about the plans by Minister Helen McEntee to increase the number of beds in refuges and I am providing a link to an Irish Independent article dated 8 February 2022, which carries quotes from Minister McEntee about these plans. https://www.independent.ie/news/justice-minister-helen- mcentee-vows-to-deliver-more-refuge-beds-for-victims-of- domestic-abuse-41324457.html

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

1. All correspondence (including documentation, minutes, timelines for the proposal, etc.) exchanged internally and externally by the Department of Justice regarding the proposal to add 400 refuge beds in Ireland to combat domestic violence against women. 2. The list of the nine counties that are currently without refuge beds in Ireland. 3. Where the present 140 refuge beds are located in Ireland.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

Records relating to the policies and procedures governing the application of discretion in the treatment of the residence requirements as part of citizenship by naturalisation applications in respect of section 15(1)(c) of the Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act 1956, as amended.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

All correspondence held by the Department of Justice related to the proposal to replace all civilian drivers for Cabinet ministers and ministers who sit at Cabinet with Garda drivers. This should include any emails, text messages, WhatsApps or any other form of electronic communication as well as any memos and/or any other documentation related to this issue.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

All records concerning the exercise of statutory function exercisable by the Minister for Justice to permit members of An Garda Síochána serve beyond their 60th birthday. 1. The dates of and all the records concerning the matters as submitted by the Police Authority and/or An Garda

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

The names and the application forms associated with the people that nominated a named person as a Commissioner of Oaths recently.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

Any and all correspondence to and from the Department of Justice regarding the revelation that a female solicitor was made to remove item of clothing to enter a Dublin prison and visit her client, including the report which was compiled in the aftermath of the incident.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

1. Copies of any advice, guidance, or policies drafted, provided, or implemented by the Legal Services Support Unit of the Immigration Service Delivery in response to the Chenchooliah judgment. 2. Copies of any guidelines, policies, or criteria issued to decision-making staff of the Immigration Service Delivery when considering whether an individual comes within the remit of the Chenchooliah judgment.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

1. Copies of any advice, guidance, or policies drafted, provided, or implemented by the Legal Services Support Unit of the Immigration Service Delivery in response to the Chenchooliah judgement and/or external legal providers. 2. Copies of any guidelines, policies, or criteria issued to staff of the Immigration Service Delivery when considering whether an individual comes within the remit of the judgement. 3. Copies of all briefing material provided to the Minister for Justice concerning the judgement.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

1. Copies of all correspondence between the Minister for Justice and/or her political staff and a named person and/or his staff since she was appointed in 2020. 2. Copies of any correspondence or representations the Minister and/or her political staff made on behalf of a named person and/or his staff to other Departments or state bodies since she was appointed.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

1. Any internal documents, memos, policy papers or intended response to proposals for reform of the Data Protection Commission. 2. Minutes from meetings (in-person or online) with the Irish Council for Civil Liberties, in the last two years, which

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

Letter sent by the Banking & Payments Federation Ireland to the Department in relation to legislative support for a shared fraud database. The letter was sent between 1 September 2021 and 31 December 2021, per the lobbying register: https://www.lobbying.ie/return/80555/banking--payments- federation-ireland

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

A copy of the inquiry report completed by a named Judge and submitted to the Minister for Justice under section 42 of the Garda Síochána Act 2005 (as amended) concerning the adequacy of the Garda Síochána investigations and disciplinary inquiries that took place between 1984 and 1986 following the death of a named person.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

1. Report regarding Part 4 of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 2017. 2. All submissions made by members of the public, NGOs and other groups in 2020 and 2021 to the review process conducted in respect of Part 4 of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 2017. 3. All consultations and engagements with stakeholders in 2020 and 2021 in relation to the review of Part 4 of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 2017.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

A copy of the Post-Enactment Report: Criminal Justice (Enforcement Powers)(Covid-19) Act 2020.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

All correspondence to and from senior officials as well as the Minister for Justice in relation to the proposed courts complex at Hammond Lane between August 2021 and 12 November 2021.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

Any reports, evaluations, reviews or briefing material (or similar) held by the Department of Justice related to the use of electronic tagging or monitoring of offenders or people on bail since 2011.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

A copy of the letter sent by Law Society of Ireland Director General to the Minister for Justice Helen McEntee sent since 1 September 2021 relating to the difficulties experienced by third-level graduates from non-EEA countries (who qualified

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

A breakdown of ‘Official Entertainment’ spending for each Minister/Minister of State from June 2020 to 15 February 2022.