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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (19 Oct 2022)

Helen McEntee: I can advise the Deputy that, on the 18 October 2022, Cabinet approved the proposal to opt-in to the measure referred to. This will now be followed by motions for approval in both Houses. The EU Regulation establishing a European Union Agency for Asylum ((EU) 2021/2303) was adopted on 15 December 2021 and came into effect from 19 January 2022. The Regulation repeals and replaces an earlier...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (19 Oct 2022)

Helen McEntee: In response to the humanitarian situation in Afghanistan, my Department remains focused on processing applications for family reunification made under all admission avenues, including the Afghan Admissions Programme for family members of Afghan nationals living in Ireland. The Afghan Admissions Programme is an additional avenue open to the relatively small number of Afghan nationals...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (19 Oct 2022)

Helen McEntee: In response to the humanitarian situation in Afghanistan, my Department remains focused on processing applications for family reunification made under all admission avenues, including the Afghan Admissions Programme for family members of Afghan nationals living in Ireland. The Afghan Admissions Programme is an additional avenue open to the relatively small number of Afghan nationals...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (19 Oct 2022)

Helen McEntee: Long Stay Join Family visa applications are processed in accordance with the guidelines set out in my Department's Policy Document on Non-EEA Family Reunification, which can be found on my Department's immigration website: www.irishimmigration.ie. The business targets for the processing of these applications reflect the detailed and often complex assessment that is required to be carried...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (19 Oct 2022)

Helen McEntee: A person arriving in the State can seek to apply for international protection at a port of entry or at the offices of the International Protection Office (IPO). Where it appears to an immigration officer at the port of entry or the international protection officer at the IPO that the person seeking to make an application has not reached the age of 18 years and is not accompanied by an adult...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (19 Oct 2022)

Helen McEntee: Parliamentary Questions No. 221, 222 and 223 of 28 September 2022 refer to the number of public order units operating across each of the six Garda divisions in Dublin from 2017 to 2022 inclusive; the number of public order units operating full-time across each of the six Garda divisions in Dublin from 2017 to 2022; and the number of Gardaí assigned to each of the public order units...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (19 Oct 2022)

Helen McEntee: The statutorily based DSGBV agency, which is expected to be up-and-running at the start of 2024, will have a specific mandate to drive the implementation of the new Strategy on domestic, sexual and gender-based violence across Government, bringing the expertise and focus required to tackle this complex social issue. The new agency will work collaboratively with the NGO and DSGBV services...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Aid (19 Oct 2022)

Helen McEntee: Under the Criminal Justice Act 1984 (Treatment of Persons in Custody in Garda Síochána Stations) Regulations 1987, people arrested and detained in a Garda station must be informed of their right to consult a solicitor. The Garda Station Legal Advice Revised Scheme provides for the payment of fees to solicitors for telephone and in-station consultations with persons detained in...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (19 Oct 2022)

Helen McEntee: The person referred to by the Deputy created on-line Employment visa application on 5 July 2022. The supporting documentation and relevant fees were subsequently received on 13 July 2022 in the New Delhi visa office. The processing times for visa decisions are published on the visa pages of each Visa Office and the relevant Embassy website. Having contacted the Visa office, they have...

Courts and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Second Stage (19 Oct 2022)

Helen McEntee: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I welcome the opportunity to introduce the Courts and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022. The Bill introduces a number of important reforms in the law across a broad range of areas. These amendments reach across many aspects of people's lives and have the potential to make a real difference. These include court-related...

Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (19 Oct 2022)

Helen McEntee: I move amendment No. 1: In page 6, between lines 8 and 9, to insert the following: “(a) in the definition of “sexual offence”, by the substitution of “section 3;” for “section 3.”,”. This is a technical amendment, with a semicolon replacing a full stop after "section 3" in the definition of "sexual offence", as it is no longer...

Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (19 Oct 2022)

Helen McEntee: As the Deputy outlined, the Bill provides that a sex offender can notify at any Garda station that has been designated by the Garda Commissioner for that purpose or at any divisional headquarters. In this way, we are not limiting the offender in notifying at his or her local station. By drafting the provision in this way, a sex offender who regularly resides in Cork but who might by chance...

Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (19 Oct 2022)

Helen McEntee: We are not doing this to facilitate sex offenders. We are doing this to ensure we have a system that works and whereby they can continue to be monitored. This has been carefully drafted and thought through. I committed on Committee Stage to look at this and to respond to the Deputy regarding this matter. Having again engaged with the Garda on this aspect now, the force is happy and clear...

Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (19 Oct 2022)

Helen McEntee: I move amendment No. 3: In page 10, to delete lines 7 to 13 and substitute the following: "(7B) A member of the Garda Síochána not below the rank of inspector may, in respect of a person to whom subsection (7A) applies, specify such period of more or less than 3 days for the purposes of paragraph (b) of that subsection as he or she is satisfied is appropriate, having regard...

Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (19 Oct 2022)

Helen McEntee: I move amendment No. 7: In page 11, lines 14 and 15, to delete "3 days" and substitute "7 days". Amendment No. 7, which is grouped with amendments Nos. 8 and 9, was originally tabled by Deputy Naughten on Committee Stage. I thank him for raising this issue and for his contribution more generally to the legislation. The purpose of the amendment is to increase from three days to seven...

Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (19 Oct 2022)

Helen McEntee: I welcome this amendment and, as the Deputy said, it will be a practical support for gardaí in their work.

Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (19 Oct 2022)

Helen McEntee: I move amendment No. 8: In page 11, line 18, to delete “3 days” and substitute “7 days”.

Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (19 Oct 2022)

Helen McEntee: I move amendment No. 9: In page 11, line 24, to delete “3 days” and substitute “7 days”.

Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (19 Oct 2022)

Helen McEntee: I move amendment No. 10: In page 13, to delete lines 23 to 28 and substitute the following: “(iv) the address of each other place (if any), whether in or outside the State, at which, on the date on which the notification is given, he or she resides or regularly stays, and (v) the address of each other place (if any), whether in or outside the State, at which the person has resided...

Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (19 Oct 2022)

Helen McEntee: I move amendment No. 11: In page 16, line 16, to delete “or 14E”. Amendment No. 12 is the substantive amendment in this grouping. It deletes the original provision under section 14D that concerns the disclosure of information relating to a relevant offender to police services or other law enforcement agencies outside the State. This was to allow An Garda...