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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Seekers (10 Oct 2024)

Helen McEntee: I am acutely aware of the grave humanitarian crisis unfolding before us in Gaza. My Department is working closely with colleagues in the Department of Foreign Affairs to ensure a coordinated national response to this volatile and evolving situation. This includes their work to evacuate Irish citizens and their families who may require visa assistance. The Embassy of Ireland in Israel is...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (10 Oct 2024)

Helen McEntee: I can inform the Deputy that in making the assessment to designate a country as safe, it is considered, among other things, the extent to which protection is provided against persecution or mistreatment by: • The relevant laws and regulations of the country and the manner in which they are applied. • The observance of the rights and freedoms laid down in specified European...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (10 Oct 2024)

Helen McEntee: Responsibility for the registration of Irish immigration residence permissions, both first registration and online renewal, leading to the issue of an Irish Residence Permit (IRP) card, is split between the Registration Office of Immigration Service Delivery of my Department at Burgh Quay in Dublin, and the Garda National Immigration Bureau (GNIB) operating through Garda stations in relevant...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (10 Oct 2024)

Helen McEntee: Unfortunately, the information requested is not maintained in a way that allows my Department to separate processing times of minors from adults. Applications made on behalf of minors are not treated as separate to standard adult’s applications and are processed as part of the normal overarching processing structures in Citizenship Division. That said, minor applicants under the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Work Permits (10 Oct 2024)

Helen McEntee: Under the European Communities (Reception Conditions) Regulations 2018 (S.I. No. 230 of 2018), persons are eligible to apply for labour market access permission if: They are an international protection applicant; and They have waited at least 5 months from their “Application Received” date for their first instance recommendation; and They are cooperating with the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (10 Oct 2024)

Helen McEntee: As the Deputy will be aware, the prosecution of offences in these instances are a matter for An Garda Síochána and the Director of Public Prosecutions, who are independent in the exercise of their functions in this regard; as Minister I have no role in the taking of such prosecutions. I have sought the information requested from the Garda Commissioner and I will write to the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (10 Oct 2024)

Helen McEntee: My Department has significantly increased investment into the international protection system. Measures have been implemented to improve efficiencies and throughput while also enhancing the application, interview, and decision-making process for applicants. One of the priority areas of focus has been to recruit both civil servants and panel members to increase case processing. The IPO now...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Reviews (10 Oct 2024)

Helen McEntee: It has not been possible to collate the information requested by 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: Residency Permits (10 Oct 2024)

Helen McEntee: The person referred to by the Deputy holds a Stamp 1 immigration permission valid until 04 April 2025. If the person concerned wishes to renew their permission at the end of this period, they should attend their local Immigration Registration Office. Queries in relation to the status of individual immigration cases may be made directly to my Department by email using the Oireachtas...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (10 Oct 2024)

Helen McEntee: The person referred to by the Deputy holds a Stamp 3 immigration permission valid until 04 April 2025. An application for a change of immigration status to a Stamp 4 by the person concerned was refused on 10 December 2023. An appeal application was received on 28 February 2024 and continues to be processed by the Domestic Residence and Permissions Division of my Department. To be fair...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Deportation Orders (10 Oct 2024)

Helen McEntee: I can advise the Deputy that the person referred to is the subject of a Deportation Order (DO) and it is open to any individual to make representations under Section 3(11) of the Immigration Act 1999, as amended, requesting to have their deportation order revoked. The applicant may complete form 3.11 to ask the Minister to consider revoking their deportation order, pursuant to the provisions...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Deportation Orders (10 Oct 2024)

Helen McEntee: The person referred to has made a request to have their deportation order revoked, pursuant to the provisions of section 3(11) of the Immigration Act 1999 (as amended). This request was received on 9 August 2024 and will be considered as soon as it is possible to do so. The decision to ensue from the consideration of this request will be that the existing deportation orders will be either...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Deportation Orders (10 Oct 2024)

Helen McEntee: The person referred to has made a request to have their deportation order revoked, pursuant to the provisions of section 3(11) of the Immigration Act 1999 (as amended). This request was received on the 13 August 2024 and will be considered as soon as it is possible to do so. The decision to ensue from the consideration of this request will be that the existing deportation orders will be...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Deportation Orders (10 Oct 2024)

Helen McEntee: For reasons of maintaining full confidentiality, it is not my Department's practice to comment on whether an application for asylum or subsidiary protection has been made in the State. An applicant for such protection status, or their legal representative, should contact either the International Protection Office (IPO) or the International Protection Appeals Tribunal (IPAT) directly, as...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (10 Oct 2024)

Helen McEntee: For reasons of maintaining full confidentiality, it is not my Department's practice to comment on whether an application for asylum or subsidiary protection has been made in the State. An applicant for such protection status, or their legal representative, should contact either the International Protection Office (IPO) or the International Protection Appeals Tribunal (IPAT) directly, as...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (10 Oct 2024)

Helen McEntee: For reasons of maintaining full confidentiality, it is not my Department's practice to comment on whether an application for asylum or subsidiary protection has been made in the State. An applicant for such protection status, or their legal representative, should contact either the International Protection Office (IPO) or the International Protection Appeals Tribunal (IPAT) directly, as...

Child Protection: Statements (15 Oct 2024)

Helen McEntee: Sexual exploitation of children is one of the most grotesque and serious crimes that exist. It is a crime which causes misery in the lives of children and families. We all must do everything in our power to stamp it out. This is a growing problem, with abusers continuing to abuse positions of power and making greater use of technology and online spaces to hide and commit their crimes. ...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2024)

Helen McEntee: All these amendments aim to do two things: first, to remove all the incitement to violence or hatred provisions from the Bill; and second, to deal with the consequential amendments arising from enactment of the Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2023. I will deal with these separately and will start with the first tranche. As Senators are aware, the Bill originally aimed to...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2024)

Helen McEntee: Very briefly on this again, I will refer back to what exactly we are trying to achieve here. The amendments we are speaking to are technical in nature and remove quite a significant part of this legislation. I genuinely regret that this is where we are at now. For a lot of legislation, you will not always reach a consensus but for the most part, you need to have a consensus and that was...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2024)

Helen McEntee: They are real crimes but these are real people who are more likely to be targeted because of the fact they are transgender. Senator Mullen's amendments and his objective here would mean that these people are not protected.