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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (2 Jul 2024)

Helen McEntee: The naturalisation application from the person referred to by the Deputy continues to be processed by my Department. The Citizenship Division have advised that they requested further documentation from the applicant on 24 June 2024. Once these documents are received, the application will progress to the eVetting stage of the Naturalisation process. I understand the extended wait times...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Programme (2 Jul 2024)

Helen McEntee: As the Deputy is aware, my Department is leading a programme of family justice reform set out in the first Family Justice Strategy 2022-2025. The Strategy outlines the steps needed to create a more efficient and user-friendly family court system that puts the family and children at the centre of its work. A key component of the Strategy is the enactment of a Family Courts Bill which...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Closed-Circuit Television Systems (2 Jul 2024)

Helen McEntee: Community safety is a top priority for my Department and everyone has the right to be safe and feel safe in their communities. Community CCTV plays a vital role in achieving this goal. As the Deputy may be aware, since 2017 my Department has administered a grant-aid scheme supporting groups wishing to establish a community-based CCTV system in their area. The CCTV grant scheme was...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (2 Jul 2024)

Helen McEntee: One of the key actions of the Third National Strategy is doubling the number of refuge spaces available during the lifetime of the Strategy to 280 refuge spaces. As the Deputy is aware, prior to the establishment of Cuan on 1 January 2024, a Steering Committee for Inter-Departmental Group proposals was set up to manage and oversee progress on the delivery of additional refuge units. ...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Programme for Government (27 Jun 2024)

Helen McEntee: The Programme for Government 2020 contains a broad range of commitments that represent a coherent approach to enhancing and sustaining a safe, secure and inclusive Ireland. My Department remains steadfast in its efforts to deliver on the commitments laid out in the Programme over its lifetime. The Criminal Justice (Spent Convictions and Certain Disclosures) Act 2016, provides for...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (27 Jun 2024)

Helen McEntee: I can advise the Deputy, if a parent or guardian wishes for a non-EEA student to take up residence in Ireland to attend a primary or secondary school, they must: Register the child in an appropriate private fee paying school Pay the appropriate school fees before their arrival in Ireland In the case of a boarding school student, they must provide a letter from the school confirming that it...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (27 Jun 2024)

Helen McEntee: As the Deputy will be aware, the Judiciary are independent in their functions subject only to the constitution and the law, and this of course includes determining what sentence is handed down in any case. The constitutionally protected separation of powers is a corner stone of our systems of criminal justice and of democracy and something that no elected official can interfere with. When...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Ceremonies (27 Jun 2024)

Helen McEntee: As the Deputy will be aware, over 10,000 people were naturalised at the Citizenship Ceremonies held across June 2024. I can advise the Deputy that all Certificates of Naturalisation for the attendees of these ceremonies are currently in the process of being printed and will be issued via registered post. I am aware that following some previous ceremonies there were delays in...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Schemes (27 Jun 2024)

Helen McEntee: The Community Return Scheme is an incentivised early release scheme, co-managed by the Irish Prison Service and the Probation Service, whereby people can be approved for reviewable temporary release coupled with a requirement to complete community service work in a supervised group setting under the supervision of the Probation Service. Decisions regarding temporary release to take part in...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Court Judgments (27 Jun 2024)

Helen McEntee: As the Deputy will be aware, all judges are independent in the exercise of their judicial functions and subject in those functions only to the Constitution and the law. As the Deputy will also be aware, it is open to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) to appeal any sentence that, in the opinion of the DPP, is unduly lenient. The DPP is fully independent in her functions under the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Applications (27 Jun 2024)

Helen McEntee: The granting of Irish citizenship through naturalisation is governed by the provisions of the Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act 1956, as amended. All applications for a certificate of naturalisation are processed and assessed individually in accordance with the provisions of the Act. It is open to anyone to make an application for citizenship once they meet the criteria as set out in...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (27 Jun 2024)

Helen McEntee: I am advised by the Irish Prison Service that on 26th June 2024, there were 12 people held in prison custody solely on a remand or trial warrant for between two and three years, three and four years, four and five years and five years plus. The information requested by the Deputy is set out in the table below: Years held on Remand/Trial Total 5 years...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (27 Jun 2024)

Helen McEntee: Road safety is a shared responsibility, and while led by the Department of Transport, it is one which is taken very seriously across Government. We have all been shocked by the loss of life on our roads, and concerned by the worrying increase in road fatalities after many years of progress in making our roads safer. I continue to engage with colleagues across Government to ensure that every...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Antisocial Behaviour (27 Jun 2024)

Helen McEntee: I can assure the Deputy that the Government is determined to tackle anti-social behaviour and its causes. A number of priority actions are contained in the Programme for Government to reduce instances of such behaviour and help people to be safe and feel safe in their local communities. We are committed to tackling the scourge of anti-social behaviour and crime to build safer streets and...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Deportation Orders (27 Jun 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 26 March 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: Citizenship Applications (27 Jun 2024)

Helen McEntee: I can advise the Deputy that EU Council Implementing Decision 2022/382 applied the provisions of the Temporary Protection Directive to persons displaced by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, including persons recognised as refugees in Ukraine. At a meeting of EU Home Affairs Ministers on 13 June 2024, political agreement was reached to extend the Temporary Protection Directive until March 2026....

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (27 Jun 2024)

Helen McEntee: I can advise the Deputy that, from the information provided, the application referred to is not matter for my Department. Citizenship applications made through the Foreign Births Register are a matter for the Department of Foreign Affairs, as the Foreign Births Register is the responsibility of and is maintained by that Department. More information is available from the Department of...

Seanad: Domestic Violence (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Second Stage (26 Jun 2024)

Helen McEntee: I thank all Senators for their contributions and in particular Senator Martin and all supporters of the proposed Private Members' Bill. It has had a significant amount of support. When we engage on the topics of domestic and sexual violence, coercive control and abuse of women and girls the support is unanimous and the overall objective of all of us is to make our country a safe space for...

Seanad: Domestic Violence (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Second Stage (26 Jun 2024)

Helen McEntee: The bells are ringing.

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...