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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Chief State Solicitor's Office (Revised) (24 Apr 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: ...that migration has been very good for this country. In fact, we sometimes do not give ourselves praise for handling well issues with which other countries have had difficulty. We have handled immigration particularly well in this country over the past 25 years, since it began to happen. Before then, it was something that did not really happen in Ireland. We all recognise that it has...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (9 Apr 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 868. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of competitions held for gardaí per rank to apply for posts within the Garda National Immigration Unit in the years of 2023 and to-date in 2024, in tabular form; the number of gardaí by rank that applied for the vacancies within GNIB in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14203/24]

Recent Arson Attacks: Statements (27 Feb 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: ...majority of people in the community where that arson attack took place did not support the act of violence that was perpetrated on the property. It is also important that we talk about the issue of immigration. Historically, we have not been used to the whole prospect and action of immigration. The population of Ireland declined consistently and repeatedly after the Famine. It is...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (23 Jan 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 432. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of cases that the Garda National Immigration Bureau dealt with in 2023, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2504/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Aviation Industry (18 Jan 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 243. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality whether airlines can be required to provide to the Garda national immigration bureau evidence of the travel documentation relied on by passengers when embarking an airline bound for Ireland. [2135/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (27 Jun 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: 458. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of competitions held for sworn Garda members to apply to join the Garda National Immigration Bureau in 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [30666/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Staff (1 Mar 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: 149. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of staff within his Department working within the Immigration and Naturalisation Service; if recruitment of further staff would expedite applications for visas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10398/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (4 Oct 2022)

Jim O'Callaghan: 532. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if restrictions have been imposed upon the application of the immigrant investor programme for persons resident in the Russian Federation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47982/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (17 May 2022)

Jim O'Callaghan: 600. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of applications for citizenship received by Irish Naturalisation and Immigration service monthly in each of the years from 2017 to 2022, in tabular form; the applications processed by the service monthly in tabular form; the length of time it took to process these applications per year; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (17 May 2022)

Jim O'Callaghan: 601. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current target of the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service to process citizenship applications; if additional resources will be allocated to reduce processing times; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24415/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (10 May 2022)

Jim O'Callaghan: 632. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if an additional extension of time beyond 31 May 2022 will be allotted to holders of expired immigration permits; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22992/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (26 Apr 2022)

Jim O'Callaghan: 1244. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps that are being taken to ensure that the immigration and naturalisation process is protected from persons who are booking up available slots and then reselling them to persons that are desperate for an appointment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19407/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Applications (16 Nov 2021)

Jim O'Callaghan: 478. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if additional staff can be provided to the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service on a temporary basis to facilitate the processing of a backlog of appointments to obtain and renew visas; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56158/21]

Criminal Justice (Smuggling of Persons) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (4 Nov 2021)

Jim O'Callaghan: ...forward this important legislation. As my colleague, Deputy Murnane O'Connor stated, it is the case that laws existed to criminalise human smuggling and they were contained within the Illegal Immigrants (Trafficking) Act 2000. However, that legislation covered a lot of issues, including human trafficking as well as human smuggling. It is crucial that when we are dealing with something...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (25 May 2021)

Jim O'Callaghan: 508. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda cars attached to the Garda national immigration bureau that are aged over 12 years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28187/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (31 Mar 2021)

Jim O'Callaghan: 828. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there will be an additional extension allowed for expired immigration permits given the situation with Covid-19 restrictions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17321/21]

Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2020: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Nov 2020)

Jim O'Callaghan: ...Europe. Leaving aside the whole issue of the European Union, at the heart of Brexit was the concern that the United Kingdom had become too close to its European neighbours and the whole issue of immigration was also linked with that. It was on that basis that the majority of voters in the United Kingdom, but mainly in England, made the decision that they wanted to leave the European...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda National Immigration Bureau (22 Sep 2020)

Jim O'Callaghan: 643. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the budget allocation for the Garda National Immigration Bureau in 2019 and 2020, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24859/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda National Immigration Bureau (13 May 2020)

Jim O'Callaghan: 346. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of unmarked cars and vans attached to the Garda National Immigration Bureau as of 31 December 2018 and 26 February 2020, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4176/20]