Results 181-200 of 1,462 for justice speaker:Simon Harris

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Applications (23 May 2023)

Simon Harris: ...reduce waiting times. Queries in relation to the status of individual immigration cases may be made directly to my Department by e-mail using the Oireachtas Mail facility at: INISOireachtasMail@justice.ie, which has been specifically established for this purpose. This service enables up to date information on such cases to be obtained without the need to seek information by way of the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (23 May 2023)

Simon Harris: ...in due course. Queries in relation to the status of individual immigration cases may be made directly to my Department by e-mail using the Oireachtas Mail facility at: INISOireachtasMail@justice.ie, which has been specifically established for this purpose. This service enables up to date information on such cases to be obtained without the need to seek information by way of the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Missing Persons (23 May 2023)

Simon Harris: ...added to the coroner’s annual statistical returns whereby coroners will be asked to provide details of all unidentified human remains reported to them in the preceding year. The Department of Justice established a forum in July 2021 alongside An Garda Síochána’s Missing Persons Unit and Forensic Science Ireland (FSI) to facilitate information exchange on...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Official Engagements (23 May 2023)

Simon Harris: ...United States National Security Advisor to Ireland before year end. As the Deputy will appreciate, Ireland and the United States of America have a strong record of cooperation in relation to justice and security matters. Meetings between relevant officeholders take place from time to time and officials liaise with their counterparts as needed, as do the security services of the State.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Family Law Cases (18 May 2023)

Simon Harris: ...to take Questions Nos. 400 and 401 together. As the Deputy may be aware, last year, my Department committed to undertake a public consultation on the issue of parental alienation as part of the Justice Plan 2022. The consultation was an opportunity for individuals and organisations to offer their views and experiences of parental alienation, its impact and how it could be responded to in...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Applications (18 May 2023)

Simon Harris: ...reduce waiting times. Queries in relation to the status of individual immigration cases may be made directly to my Department by e-mail using the Oireachtas Mail facility at: INISOireachtasMail@justice.ie, which has been specifically established for this purpose. This service enables up to date information on such cases to be obtained without the need to seek information by way of the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (18 May 2023)

Simon Harris: ...1 immigration permission. Queries in relation to the status of individual immigration cases may be made directly to my Department by email using the Oireachtas Mail facility at INISOireachtasMail@justice.ie, which has been specifically established for this purpose. This service enables up to date information on such cases to be obtained without the need to seek information by way of the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Aid (18 May 2023)

Simon Harris: ..., independent body responsible for the provision of civil legal aid and advice to persons of modest means, in accordance with the provisions of the Civil Legal Aid Act 1995. I, as Minister for Justice, have no role in these matters and, as Minister, I cannot comment upon individual cases. In accordance with circular 25/2016, agencies under the aegis of Government Departments have a...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Applications (18 May 2023)

Simon Harris: ...reduce waiting times. Queries in relation to the status of individual immigration cases may be made directly to my Department by e-mail using the Oireachtas Mail facility at: INISOireachtasMail@justice.ie, which has been specifically established for this purpose. This service enables up to date information on such cases to be obtained without the need to seek information by way of the...

Central Statistics Office Sexual Violence Survey 2022: Statements (Resumed) (17 May 2023)

Simon Harris: ...are across Departments and State agencies. This reflects the reality zero tolerance can be achieved only through a whole-of-society effort and that sexual and gender-based violence cannot be treated as a criminal justice issue alone. There is of course an important criminal justice element here, but there are other pieces too. I was taken by Deputy O'Donoghue's point about the mobile...

Central Statistics Office Sexual Violence Survey 2022: Statements (17 May 2023)

Simon Harris: ...While this strategy is our most ambitious to date, it builds on work already undertaken under previous strategies and under Supporting A Victims’ Journey, our plan to create a more victim-centred criminal justice system. Through the Supporting a Victim’s Journey plan, a number of recommendations to support victims of sexual crime have been progressed. These include:...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 May 2023)

Simon Harris: ...of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, this means providing student accommodation during the summer months to the national months. If we take the Department of Justice, it means identifying and providing the Thornton Hall site. Turning to the Department of Defence, it means providing several sites, including Kilbride Camp in my constituency or Columb Barracks...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Services Regulation (17 May 2023)

Simon Harris: ...Precedence, which considers candidates to become Senior Counsel – be they solicitors or barristers – has been established with the administrative support of the Authority while chaired by the Chief Justice in its own right. The first grant of patents was made by Government on 1stSeptember 2020. The third appointment process through this Committee in 2022 resulted in 34...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (17 May 2023)

Simon Harris: ...reduce waiting times. Queries in relation to the status of individual immigration cases may be made directly to my Department by e-mail using the Oireachtas Mail facility at: INISOireachtasMail@justice.ie, which has been specifically established for this purpose. This service enables up to date information on such cases to be obtained without the need to seek information by way of the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Coroners Service (17 May 2023)

Simon Harris: ...9 of the Coroners Act, 1962 provides for the payment by the Local Authorities of a salary to the Coroners. This salary has been fixed from time to time after consultation between the Minister for Justice and the Minister for Housing, Local Government, and Heritage. The Dublin coronial district is an exception to the above as the salary for the Coroner to the Dublin District is set by the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (17 May 2023)

Simon Harris: Tackling Domestic, Sexual and Gender Based Violence (DSGBV) is an absolute priority for me as Minister for Justice.  This includes focusing on prevention and on providing victim-centred supports and services and implementing the €363 million Zero Tolerance plan.  Under Budget 2023, an extra €9 million was secured, a 22% increase, for combatting domestic, sexual...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Functions (17 May 2023)

Simon Harris: Lead responsibility for policy in relation to domestic, sexual and gender-based violence lies with  the Criminal Justice Policy function in my Department. The Policy function leads on the development of national policy on specific themes and drafts, consults on and manages the negotiation and approval of EU/International and applied policies. The Community Safety Policy team has...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: An Garda Síochána (16 May 2023)

Simon Harris: ...reduced. We have a green light and all systems go for the new Garda station for Clonmel. The development of the new Garda station in Macroom, County Cork, will also benefit from being decoupled from the justice PPP and will also be funded directly by the Exchequer. As the Senator will be aware, my officials and I have been in ongoing contact with the Taoiseach, the Minister for Public...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Emergency Services (16 May 2023)

Simon Harris: ...Gallagher for raising this matter and, more important, for his ongoing work, leadership and advocacy on this. I thank him for meeting with me and my officials and the team in the Department of Justice on a number of dates and for constantly keeping this issue on the agenda. I share his view. I know, as Minister for Justice and as a former Minister for Health, that every day thousands...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (16 May 2023)

Simon Harris: ...is overseen by the Cabinet Committee on Social Affairs and Equality chaired by An Taoiseach, a High Level Oversight Board chaired by the Secretaries General to the Departments of the Taoiseach and Justice, with a secretariat in the Department of the Taoiseach to support this Government priority. The High Level Oversight Board, which meets quarterly, is charged with ensuring that actions...