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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (30 Jan 2024)

Helen McEntee: Deportation and removal processes are an essential part of any immigration system. It must be acknowledged that those who do not have a legal right to remain in this country must remove themselves from the State. A person who is subject to a Deportation Order has no legal basis to remain in the State. When issued with such an order, the person concerned is required to remove themselves from...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (30 Jan 2024)

Helen McEntee: I can advise the Deputy that the application referred to was created on the 11/10/2023. Supporting documentation was received in the Ottawa office on the 06/11/2023. The application was received in the Dublin Visa Office on the 16/11/2023 where it awaits examination and processing. Long Stay Join Family visa applications are processed in accordance with the guidelines set out in the Policy...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (30 Jan 2024)

Helen McEntee: As the Deputy will be aware, under the Garda Síochána Act 2005 (as amended), the Garda Commissioner is responsible for the administration and management of An Garda Síochána, as well as for decisions on the deployment of personnel among the various Garda Divisions. As Minister, I have no role in these matters. I am assured that Garda management keeps the distribution of...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (30 Jan 2024)

Helen McEntee: I am advised by the Garda authorities that members of An Garda Síochána are currently guided by the ‘Managed Containment and Stopping of Subject Vehicles’ policy document, which governs the pursuit of motorcycles. I am also advised that this policy document was put in place from 19 September 2019, and that an updated policy document is being drafted, namely the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (30 Jan 2024)

Helen McEntee: As the Deputy will appreciate, the Garda Commissioner is responsible under the law for the management and administration of An Garda Síochána, including any decisions in relation to the allocation and control of Garda equipment and resources. As Minister for Justice, I have no direct role in these matters. The Garda Mounted Unit is based at Áras an Úachtaráin,...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (30 Jan 2024)

Helen McEntee: The Government is committed to building stronger, safer communities and a strengthened, well-resourced Garda Síochána is central to this policy. The Garda Budget is now at its highest ever level. The unprecedented allocation of over €2.35 billion to An Garda Síochána for 2024 will allow for sustained recruitment of between 800 to 1,000 new Garda recruits in 2024. ...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (30 Jan 2024)

Helen McEntee: As the Deputy will be aware, the Garda Commissioner is responsible for the management and administration of An Garda Síochána. This includes the purchasing and distribution of Garda vehicles. The Government is committed to ensuring An Garda Síochána have the resources they need which is reflected in the unprecedented allocation of over €2 billion in Budget 2024....

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Measures (30 Jan 2024)

Helen McEntee: Spiking is a serious offences with potentially devastating effects on victims. Spiking is already a criminal offence under section 12 of the Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person Act 1997. This provides for a general offence of administering a substance capable of interfering with the victim’s bodily functions. Where spiking is committed with intent to commit a further offence...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (30 Jan 2024)

Helen McEntee: I propose to take Questions Nos. 422 and 424 together. As the Deputy will be aware, under the Garda Síochána Act 2005 (as amended), the Garda Commissioner is responsible for the administration and management of An Garda Síochána, as well as for decisions on the deployment of personnel among the various Garda Divisions. As Minister, I have no role in these matters. I am...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (30 Jan 2024)

Helen McEntee: The Government is committed to providing An Garda Síochána with the resources it needs to ensure communities around Ireland are safe and feel safe. This is reflected in the allocation of over €2.3 billion in Budget 2024 to An Garda Síochána, a 23% increase since 2020. This funding provides for 800-1000 new Garda recruits across 2024, with the aim of growing the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Family Reunification (30 Jan 2024)

Helen McEntee: Officials from the Family Reunification Unit (FRU) of my Department have advised they will make direct contact with the person concerned. It is open to anyone with questions in relation to family reunification to contact the unit at FRU_IPA@justice.ie ensuring to include their Person ID and clearly state that their question is for the Family Reunification Unit.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Ministerial Staff (30 Jan 2024)

Helen McEntee: As I hope the Deputy will appreciate, for policy and security reasons An Garda Síochána do not comment on matters of security. I can advise the Deputy that there are two civilian drivers in my Department. They are both assigned to the Minister for State. Each driver has a working pattern of seven days on and seven days off, on a week-on, week-off basis, on opposite weeks. Each...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (30 Jan 2024)

Helen McEntee: When an International Protection claim is being examined by the International Protection Office (IPO), the International Protection Accommodation Service (IPAS) provides accommodation and related services to IP applicants who wish to accept such services. There is close engagement between my Department, GNIB and IPAS concerning persons subject to deportation orders who are or may have...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (30 Jan 2024)

Helen McEntee: At the outset I would like to assure the Deputy that community safety is a top priority for me as Minister and this Government as a whole. The Department's community safety policy is about people being safe and, importantly, feeling safe in their own community and is being piloted in three locations around the country, ahead of a planned national rollout later this year. As part of that...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (30 Jan 2024)

Helen McEntee: As the Deputy will be aware, under the Garda Síochána Act 2005 (as amended), the Garda Commissioner is responsible for the administration and management of An Garda Síochána, including all operational policing matters like the use of equipment such as drones. As Minister, I have no role in these independent functions and am unable to direct the Commissioner in any...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (30 Jan 2024)

Helen McEntee: As the Deputy will be aware, the Garda Commissioner is responsible by law for the management and administration of Garda business, which includes all decisions related to the provision of Garda equipment to the Garda fleet and the operational deployment of Garda resources. As Minister, I have no role in these independent functions. I am informed by the Garda authorities that An Garda...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (30 Jan 2024)

Helen McEntee: As the Deputy will be aware, the Irish Prison Service must accept into custody all people committed to prison by the Courts. As such, the Irish Prison Service has no control over the numbers committed to custody at any given time. Today there were 4,768 people in custody with 101 people sleeping on mattress on the floor. Where the number of people in custody exceeds the maximum capacity in...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (30 Jan 2024)

Helen McEntee: As the Deputy is aware, combatting all forms of domestic, sexual and gender-based violence (DSGBV) is a priority for me and my Department and this is reflected in a range of policies and legislation I have introduced, as well as unprecedented increases secured in successive Budget allocations. As the Deputy will be aware, in June 2022 I published an ambitious €363 million, Zero...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Applications (31 Jan 2024)

Helen McEntee: I am deeply conscious of how important the granting of naturalisation is to all of those who apply for it. The median processing time for applications currently stands at 19 months. I understand that extended wait times can be frustrating and disruptive for applicants and my Department has been working hard to clear backlogs. Processing rates have increased by over 30 percent against...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Family Reunification (31 Jan 2024)

Helen McEntee: I can advise the Deputy that the application referred to was created on the 26 July 2023. Supporting documentation was received in the New Delhi office on the 02/08/2023 where it awaits examination and processing. Long Stay Join Family visa applications are processed in accordance with the guidelines set out in the Policy Document on Non-EEA Family Reunification. This policy document may be...