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Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

FOI Requests — 2457 requests

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    Requester Type • Terms of reference for this group.
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
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    12/12/2019
    Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2019-0760
    Requester Type • 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.
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
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    12/12/2019
    Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2019-0773
    Requester Type 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.
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
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    12/12/2019
    Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2019-0787
    Requester Type 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.
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
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    12/12/2019
    Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2019-0827
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    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
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    19/12/2019
    Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2019-0817
    Requester Type • 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.
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
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    20/12/2019
    Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2019-0602
    Requester Type 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.
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
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    20/12/2019
    Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2019-0742
    Requester Type • Policy documents relating to the selection process and criteria for potential direct provision centres/ accommodation used by the Reception and Integration Agency.
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
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    Requester Type • Shortlist of potential direct provision centres/ accommodation used by the Reception and Integration Agency. • Copy of all tenders for direct provision centres/ all accommodation by the Reception and Integration Agency.
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
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    Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2019-0744
    Requester Type 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.
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    20/12/2019

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    Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2019-0762
    Requester Type 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.
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    20/12/2019

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    Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2019-0770
    Requester Type The cost of the identified murder trial to the taxpayer including legal aid fees.
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    20/12/2019

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    Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2019-0801
    Requester Type All invoices in relation to external consultancy services procured by the Department in 2019.
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    20/12/2019

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    Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2019-0890
    Requester Type • The Correct Name of (Security Regulator) • Correct Office Address • Phone No • Fax • E-Mail • Website
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    20/12/2019

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    Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2019-0529
    Requester Type All of the correspondence held by the Department relating to the Dunkerrin Arms direct provision centre for the last three years.
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    23/12/2019

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    Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2019-0549
    Requester Type 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.
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    23/12/2019

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    Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2019-0654
    Requester Type 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.
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    23/12/2019

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    Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2019-0753
    Requester Type 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.
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    23/12/2019

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    Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2019-0764
    Requester Type 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.
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    23/12/2019

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    Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2019-0771
    Requester Type 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.
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    23/12/2019

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    Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2019-0779
    Requester Type 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.
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    23/12/2019

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    Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2019-0780
    Requester Type 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.
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    23/12/2019

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    Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2019-0790
    Requester Type • 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.
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    23/12/2019

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    Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2019-0809
    Requester Type • 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.
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    23/12/2019

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    Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2019-0868
    Requester Type • 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.
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    23/12/2019

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    Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2019-0229
    Requester Type 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
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    23/12/2019

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    Requester Type I would like to request: 1. Copies of all proposals received. 2. Details of how the funding was allocated.
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
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    Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2019-0687
    Requester Type • 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.
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    27/12/2019

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    Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2019-0697
    Requester Type 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.
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    27/12/2019

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    13/03/2018
    Request Reference 156/007/2018
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    All records of costs incurred by the Department relating to all Christmas parties/events in November 2017/December 2017. Copies of all invoices/itemised bills relating to same. All correspondence to staff/outside parties in relation to same. These records should include the time, venue and number of people in attendance in relation to all events.

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    13/02/2018
    Request Reference 156/009/2018
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    Copies of all correspondence between the Department and the Garda Commissioner/An Garda Síochána and the PSNI in relation to potential terror attacks on the island of Ireland (between 1 April 2017 and 5 January 2018) Copies of all correspondence between the Department and members of the public in relation to potential terror attacks on the island of Ireland (between 1 April 2017 and 5 January 2018) Copies of all correspondence between the Department and members of the public in relation to the potential radicalisation of people living in Ireland (between 1 January 2017 and 5 January 2018).

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    13/08/2018
    Request Reference 156/014/2018
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    The amount spent flying foreign nationals back to their native countries in each of the past five years. This would include the nationality and number of foreign nationals

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    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    flown home each year. The number of foreigners deported by the State in each of the past five years. This would include the top ten countries of origin of those deported. The number of foreign nationals refused entry at Irish air and sea ports in each of the past five years.

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    29/01/2018
    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.

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    12/02/2018
    Request Reference 156/019/2018
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    Information about the cost of legal aid provided in the defence of any and all prosecutions brought relating to the Jobstown protest on 15 of November 2014 on the Fortunestown Road in Tallaght, Dublin 24. Specifically: The Children's Court 2016 prosecution of a minor (named person) The 2017 Dublin Circuit Criminal Court case against seven defendants The cost of legal aid provided to 11 defendants charged before the Dublin Circuit Criminal Court (charges were dropped against 10 of them in October 2017, and one was prosecuted for criminal damage today 18 January 2018

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    21/02/2018
    Request Reference 156/021/2018
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    Notes of the meeting between the Minister Charlie Flanagan and the Legal Services Regulatory Authority, scheduled for last November.

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    09/02/2018
    Request Reference 156/024/2018
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    Details relating to all payments made under the Criminal Legal Aid Scheme during 2017 relating to proceedings before Limerick District Court during 2017.

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    09/02/2018
    Request Reference 156/025/2018
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    Details relating to all payments made under the Criminal Legal Aid Scheme during 2017 relating to proceedings before Limerick Circuit Court during 2017.

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    25/01/2018
    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.

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    09/03/2018
    Request Reference 156/027/2018
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    All of the information and correspondence held by the Department on two reports from the Garda Commissioner relating to the presence of UK police spies in Ireland.

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    18/01/2018
    Request Reference 156/032/2018
    Requester Type Others
    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.

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    07/02/2018
    Request Reference 156/034/2018
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    A copy of all correspondence between Minister Flanagan and Holocaust Education Trust Ireland in 2017 and 2018. Details of the correspondence is set out in the following lobbying return: https://www.lobbying.ie/return/23806/holocaust‐ education‐trust‐ireland

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    21/02/2018
    Request Reference 156/035/2018
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    Copies of all correspondence between Department/Reception & Integration Agency and the Knockalisheen Accommodation Centre in the period 1 January 2017 and 17 January 2018 Copies of any records held by the Department /Reception & Integration Agency regarding an attempt by residents at Knockalisheen to hold a Christmas celebration in December 2017 (which was not permitted by the centre)

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    14/02/2018
    Request Reference 156/041/2018
    Requester Type Oireachtas / Public Reps
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    A report provided to the Department on 26 July 2017 by An Garda Síochána into the events on the day of a protest in Jobstown, the subsequent investigation and court proceedings.

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    28/03/2018
    Request Reference 156/042/2018
    Requester Type Others
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    I refer to the enclosed minute from Department of Public Expenditure and Reform to the Secretary General,

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    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    Department of Justice & Equality dated 28 September 2012 and I would be obliged to receive the following: All documents relating to any of the listed allowances as "Classes of allowances to be abolished for new beneficiaries", where those allowances have either been abolished and reinstated or not abolished at all. The documents should include where necessary, the reason for reinstatement. Concerning Category 3 ‐ "Allowances paid in An Garda Síochána ‐ Classes of allowances proposed to be abolished for new beneficiaries". I request all documentation touching upon the sanctioning of these proposals to be‐ abolished and the reasons therein. As ∙ at (i) above, the documentation should include where those allowances have either been abolished and reinstated or not abolished at all. The documents should include where necessary, the reason for reinstatement. Concerning "Priority list for elimination/review for current beneficiaries" ‐ I would be obliged to receive all documentation concerning the elimination of allowances payable within your Department to current beneficiaries for the following allowances within An Garda Síochána:  Clerical Allowance  Gaeltacht Allowance  Promotion Exam Grant  Transport Allowance  Change Management Allowance  Exam Bonus – Inspector  Bicycle

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    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

     Aran Island All documentation detailing the allowances your Department intended to prioritise for elimination/review for current recipients within An Garda Síochána only ‐ detailing the proposals, including timeframes for the completion of the process. Any and all documentation relating to consideration of your Department in abolishing allowances, pursuant to the Employment Equality Act 1998, as amended.

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    13/03/2018
    Request Reference 156/043/2018
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    The number and list of all Bills enacted and which relate to matters for which the Minister has responsibility since 2011. The number of reports reviewing such legislation laid by the Minister before an Oireachtas committee since 2011 as required under Dáil Standing Orders 141A (now 164A). Drafts of all such reports which may have been commenced or prepared but not laid in the Dáil library. All internal memos, notes or guidelines held by your Department relating to compliance with Standing Order 164A (and its predecessor 141A in the 31st/32nd Dáil).

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    09/02/2018
    Request Reference 156/045/2018
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    Any and all correspondence between the Department and the Minister for Transport Shane Ross in relation to Stepaside Garda station since February 2016.

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    28/03/2018
    Request Reference 156/046/2018
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

    Copies of correspondence to and from the Department and the Minister since 1 January 2017 in relation to the