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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Agreements (23 Jun 2022)

Helen McEntee: My Department is responsible for the administrative functions in relation to international protection, immigration (including visas) and citizenship matters for this jurisdiction. Neither I nor my Department have any role in the administration of immigration matters of any other jurisdiction, including the United Kingdom.  Any queries relating to immigration matters in another...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Funding (23 Jun 2022)

Helen McEntee: The new Community Safety Innovation Fund closed for applications for its first year of operation on 8 June last. My Department has received 120 applications from a diverse range of organisations to access funding under this new scheme for innovative projects to improve community safety.  Officials in my Department are currently assessing the applications.  The Deputy will...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (23 Jun 2022)

Helen McEntee: The Immigrant Investor Programme (IIP) was introduced in April 2012 to encourage inward investment and create business and employment opportunities in the State. The programme provides investors with the opportunity to invest in Ireland. Key to the programme is that the investments are beneficial for Ireland, generate or sustain employment and are generally in the public interest. To date,...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Applications (23 Jun 2022)

Helen McEntee: The residence conditions applying to any non-EEA minor under the age of 16 who is resident in the State is dependent on their parent's immigration permission in the State. Once a non-EEA national reaches 16 years of age while resident in the State, they are required to attend at their local immigration office to register their permission and to receive an Irish Residence Permit (IRP)...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (23 Jun 2022)

Helen McEntee: As previously advised to the Deputy, if a person is residing in the Dublin area and has an existing valid permission to be in the State, then they do not need to seek an appointment to renew their permission. Since 20 July 2020 all renewals for the Dublin area are being processed online at: . Since its introduction, more than 138,000 renewal applications have been completed. ...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (29 Jun 2022)

Helen McEntee: I thank Deputy Carroll MacNeill for raising this issue. In particular, I thank her for the way in which she has remembered and acknowledged each and every one of those women who, as she rightly said, died in such violent ways in the past number of years. The memories of those women and their families and friends, and the memories of the many other women who have been victims of domestic,...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (29 Jun 2022)

Helen McEntee: On the Deputy's final point, there is funding available, and it will be part of the strategy to make sure we get that message across. It is important that we communicate what we are doing. Part of the role of the agency will be to work very closely with the sector in the way we have been doing. There is a campaign to raise awareness of the supports that are available and make it part of...

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (29 Jun 2022)

Helen McEntee: I move: That Dáil Éireann resolves that sections 2 to 4, 6 to 12, 14 and 17 of the Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 (No. 39 of 1998) shall continue in operation for the period beginning on 30th June, 2022 and ending on 29th June, 2023. The motions before Deputies today seek the continuation in force of important provisions in law aimed at combating terrorism and...

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (29 Jun 2022)

Helen McEntee: I am grateful to the House for the contributions to this important motion. I thank all the Deputies, in particular those who support this motion. As I said at the outset, the threat from terrorist activity remains, particularly from the dissident paramilitary groups, which warrants the continuation in force of the provisions of the Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998. I...

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (29 Jun 2022)

Helen McEntee: Any person who comes before the Special Criminal Court can appeal to the Court of Appeal and to the Supreme Court.

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (29 Jun 2022)

Helen McEntee: Yes, they can, Deputy.

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (29 Jun 2022)

Helen McEntee: The point I am making is that in other jurisdictions where there is no jury, if their prosecutor, based on the evidence, decides to prosecute a person, that person does not have an option as to whether he or she is prosecuted.

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (29 Jun 2022)

Helen McEntee: I am simply responding to the fact that in other jurisdictions-----

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (29 Jun 2022)

Helen McEntee: I believe I am being misinterpreted in what I am saying.

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (29 Jun 2022)

Helen McEntee: Deputy Berry has asked if there are other jurisdictions where there are non-jury courts. There are many other jurisdictions where there are non-jury courts. In those instances, if someone is being tried, they have a right to appeal once they have gone through that process. It is the same here. That is simply all that I was saying. If we look at all of this and at the Offences against...

Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motion (29 Jun 2022)

Helen McEntee: I move: That Dáil Éireann resolves that section 8 of the Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009 (No. 32 of 2009) shall continue in operation for the period beginning on 30th June, 2022 and ending on 29th June, 2023.

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 Jun 2022)

Helen McEntee: The reasons I set out on Committee Stage are those mentioned by the Deputy, specifically that the Act in question had not commenced. I had no opposition to it other than on the basis we were pre-empting something that had not been commenced. My information is it has not been commenced, but if it has, the provision is something I am very much open to. I must get clarification on that,...

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 Jun 2022)

Helen McEntee: Once it does not delay the process, I am happy to look at it.

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 Jun 2022)

Helen McEntee: We are referring to nine members, four of whom will be lay members and four of whom will be from the Judiciary, along with the Attorney General. The point I made on Committee Stage was that three of those are ex officiomembers, including the Chief Justice, the Attorney General and the President of the Court of Appeal. If the President of the Court of Appeal is temporarily replaced by the...

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 Jun 2022)

Helen McEntee: Amendment No. 3 specifies a 20% figure for all judicial appointments. We have tried to set out very clearly in this new legislation that any appointment to judicial office would be based on merit and we must take into account the objective of the membership of the Judiciary in each court. We should have a sufficient number of members who are proficient in the Irish language but, again, we...