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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (25 Jun 2024)

Helen McEntee: The role of the Psychology Service in the Irish Prison Service is to deliver, develop and manage an integrated mental health and criminogenic needs assessment and treatment service for people in custody, in line with service plans and objectives, and within established professional standards, guidelines and policy. The Irish Prison Service continually monitors staffing requirements and...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (25 Jun 2024)

Helen McEntee: As the Deputy will be aware, under the Garda Síochána Act 2005 (as amended), the Garda Commissioner is responsible for the management and administration of An Garda Síochána, including Garda training matters. As Minister, I have no role in this regard. I am informed by the Garda authorities that Gardaí with specialist training in public order policing perform duty...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (25 Jun 2024)

Helen McEntee: As the Deputy will be aware, under the Garda Síochána Act 2005 (as amended), the Garda Commissioner is responsible for the management and administration of Garda business, which includes the recording of incidents/crime data on the Garda PULSE system. As Minister, I have no role in these independent functions. I am advised by the Garda authorities that there is no specific...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (25 Jun 2024)

Helen McEntee: In 2022, the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment, the Department of Health and my Department introduced changes to the working arrangements and immigration permissions for non-consultant hospital doctors (NCHD). These changes were intended to be beneficial to doctors who require such permissions and who have made an enormous contribution to the Irish health service. Since...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Joint Policing Committees (25 Jun 2024)

Helen McEntee: Our approach to community safety is a whole-of-Government one. We want to bring the relevant social service providers and the Gardaí together with the community in a collaborative manner, by focusing on the concerns identified by the local community itself. The Local Community Safety Partnerships (LCSPs) are provided for in Part 3 of the Policing, Security and Community Safety Act...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (25 Jun 2024)

Helen McEntee: I propose to take Questions Nos. 295 and 296 together. I can advise the Deputy that my Department provides indicative processing timeframes for certain immigration applications on the immigration website, www.irishimmigration.ie. It is important to note that these are business targets for the immigration service. Processing times for these applications will vary depending on the type and...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (25 Jun 2024)

Helen McEntee: My Department operates the Third Level Graduate Programme which allows legally resident Irish educated non-EEA graduates who hold a level 8 or level 9 award from a recognised awarding body to remain in Ireland after their studies for a period of 12 or 24 months. This residence permission is for the purposes of seeking graduate level employment and applying for a suitable employment permit...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Programme (25 Jun 2024)

Helen McEntee: The introduction of the Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022 meets an important commitment made in the programme for Government to update existing incitement to hatred laws which pre-date online and social media communications, and to introduce hate crime offences for the first time in Ireland. However, I acknowledge that a number of concerns have...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Family Reunification (25 Jun 2024)

Helen McEntee: Family reunification as provided for in S56 of the International Protection Act 2015, allows people granted International Protection to apply for certain family members to join them in the State. An application for family reunification must be made by the sponsor within 12 months of them being granted an International Protection permission and is subject to the provisions of the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Seekers (25 Jun 2024)

Helen McEntee: A bilateral agreement on Immigration Matters was put in place in 2001 between the Irish Government and the Federal Republic of Nigeria to establish a formal framework for readmissions and related immigration matters. While the agreement was never officially ratified by Nigeria, Ireland receives good cooperation from the Nigerian authorities on readmission of their citizens and both States...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (25 Jun 2024)

Helen McEntee: It has not been possible to respond to the Deputy in the time available. I will write to the Deputy directly once the information is to hand.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Freedom of Information (25 Jun 2024)

Helen McEntee: It has not been possible to collate the information requested in the time allowed. I will write to the Deputy directly when the information is to hand.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (25 Jun 2024)

Helen McEntee: The Irish Prison Service must accept into custody all people committed to prison by the Courts Service. As such, the Irish Prison Service has no control over the numbers committed to custody at any given time. I am advised by the Irish Prison Service that the information requested by the Deputy in relation to the number of prisoners in custody in each of the prisons is published on a daily...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Wards of Court (25 Jun 2024)

Helen McEntee: Management of the courts, operational matters and logistical functions are the responsibility of the judiciary and Courts Service, which are independent in exercising their functions under the Courts Service Act 1998 and given the separation of powers in the Constitution. The Courts Service has a dedicated email address for the provision of information to members of the Houses of the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (25 Jun 2024)

Helen McEntee: An appeal under the Regularisation of Long Term Undocumented Migrants Scheme by the first and second named persons referred to by the Deputy was refused on 13 March 2024. A separate appeal from the third named person was refused on 23 February 2024. The persons concerned are the subject of a Deportation Order and any person subject to a Deportation Order can apply to the Minister, under...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (26 Jun 2024)

Helen McEntee: Under the International Protection Act the Minister for Justice may make an order designating a country as a safe country of origin. A country may only be designated as a safe country of origin where satisfied it can be shown that there: • is generally and consistently no persecution; • no torture or inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment; and • no threat by reason...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (26 Jun 2024)

Helen McEntee: I can advise the Deputy that, from 8 July 2024, the registration of Irish residence permissions for non-EU/EEA/Swiss/UK nationals in counties Limerick and Cork will now be carried out by my Department at the Registration Office, 13-14 Burgh Quay, Dublin 2. The Commission on the Future of Policing in Ireland (COFPI) recommended that immigration administrative functions should transfer from...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (26 Jun 2024)

Helen McEntee: I propose to take Questions Nos. 121 and 122 together. The Irish Prison Service is currently a non-statutory executive office of my Department and officials exercise the authority of the Minister for Justice under the Carltona principle. As the Deputy may be aware, a non-statutory interim Parole Board was put in place in 2001, the main function of which was to advise the Minister of the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Coroners Service (26 Jun 2024)

Helen McEntee: As the Deputy may be aware, the coroners service comprises the network of coroners located in districts throughout the country. All coronial districts, with the exception of Dublin, are the responsibility of the relevant Local Authority. Coroners are independent quasi-judicial office holders whose core function is to investigate sudden and unexplained deaths so that a death certificate can be...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Passport Services (26 Jun 2024)

Helen McEntee: As the Deputy will be aware, by law the Garda Commissioner is responsible for the management of An Garda Síochána, including all operational and administrative matters, such as the use by Garda members of any such portal. As Minister, I have no role in these independent functions. Further, the administration of passport applications falls within the remit of my colleague the...