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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Crime Prevention (12 Oct 2021)

James Browne: My officials have been engaging with Muintir na Tíre in relation to continuing this scheme including reviewing whether newer technologies, including apps, would be appropriate for use. The Garda authorities have advised that to date, the Garda National Community Engagement Bureau has not evaluated any other models of alerting or seeking the assistance of the public by way of the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (12 Oct 2021)

James Browne: An application for a certificate of naturalisation was received from the person referred to by the Deputy on 12 May 2021. This application is currently being processed with a view to establishing whether the applicant meets the statutory conditions for the granting of naturalisation and will be submitted to me for decision as expeditiously as possible. The granting of Irish citizenship...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (12 Oct 2021)

James Browne: The Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act 1956 as amended provides that an application for a certificate of naturalisation may be granted if the applicant satisfies the statutory conditions, including that the applicant must be of good character. In order to assess whether an applicant satisfies this criterion, a range of information and criminal history reports from this and other...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Support Services (12 Oct 2021)

James Browne: I am pleased to inform the Deputy that the person concerned has obtained a registration appointment via the Registration Appointment Booking System. They should attend as scheduled and present their new passport to facilitate their registration. Queries in relation to the status of individual immigration cases may be made directly to my Department by e-mail using the Oireachtas Mail...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Support Services (12 Oct 2021)

James Browne: I propose to take Questions Nos. 417 and 428 together. My Department is aware that there have been issues in the past around the securing of registration appointments and has continually introduce software fixes designed to prevent such abuses of the system. These new measures have been partly successful in preventing the block booking of appointments by third party agents. However,...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Deportation Orders (12 Oct 2021)

James Browne: The following table shows the number of deportation orders issued to Afghan nationals for the past five years. No deportation orders have been issued to Afghan nationals this year. Furthermore, no existing deportation orders for Afghan nationals will be enforced in the current circumstances. For those with an existing deportation order, they can make a request to me to revoke the order and...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (12 Oct 2021)

James Browne: An application for a certificate of naturalisation was received from the person referred to by the Deputy on 4 February 2020. This application is currently being processed with a view to establishing whether the applicant meets the statutory conditions for the granting of naturalisation and will be submitted to me for decision as expeditiously as possible. The granting of Irish...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (12 Oct 2021)

James Browne: The application for a certificate of naturalisation for the person referred to by the Deputy continues to be processed with a view to establishing whether the applicant meets the statutory conditions for the granting of naturalisation and will be submitted to me for decision in due course. It is recognised that all applicants for citizenship would wish to have a decision on their...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (12 Oct 2021)

James Browne: The application of the person referred to by the Deputy has been received by my Department and I am advised that their passport will be returned to them in the coming days. My Department has not suspended the receipt or processing of citizenship applications at any stage during the pandemic. However, processing rates have unfortunately been negatively impacted by the attendant health and...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (12 Oct 2021)

James Browne: For reasons of confidentiality I am unable to comment on any individual international protection cases. However, more generally, where a person does not wish to continue in the international protection process, they should personally write to the International Protection Office at: Customer Service Centre, International Protection Office, 79-83 Lower Mount Street, Dublin 2, outlining...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (12 Oct 2021)

James Browne: In response to a notification pursuant to the provisions of Section 3 of the Immigration Act 1999 (as amended), written representations have been submitted on behalf of the person concerned. These representations, together with all other information and documentation on file, will be fully considered, under Section 3 (6) of the Immigration Act 1999 (as amended) and all other applicable...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Gambling Sector (12 Oct 2021)

James Browne: The Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Act 2019 was commenced on 1 December 2020, with all sections coming into effect. As the Deputy will recall, there was extensive debate on this Act during its passage through the Oireachtas. The then Minister of State received many representations from a range of stakeholders at the time and these were extensively discussed and publicised. The 2019...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Programmes (12 Oct 2021)

James Browne: The Immigrant Investor Programme (IIP) was introduced in April 2012 to encourage inward investment and create business and employment opportunities in the State. The programme provides investors with the opportunity to invest in Ireland. Key to the programme is that the investments are beneficial for Ireland, generate or sustain employment and are generally in the public interest. To date,...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (12 Oct 2021)

James Browne: An application for a certificate of naturalisation was received from the person referred to by the Deputy on 26 February 2021. This application is currently being processed with a view to establishing whether the applicant meets the statutory conditions for the granting of naturalisation and will be submitted to me for decision as expeditiously as possible. The granting of Irish...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (12 Oct 2021)

James Browne: The person referred to by the Deputy has permission to remain in the State, on immigration stamp 1 conditions, without a requirement to obtain an employment permit, up to 21 January 2022. Future renewals of the permission to remain granted should be applied for six weeks in advance of the permission expiring to the Acknowledgments Unit, Repatriation Division, Immigration Service Delivery,...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (12 Oct 2021)

James Browne: I propose to take Questions Nos. 460 and 461 together. As the Deputy will appreciate, the Garda Commissioner is responsible, by law, for the administration and management of Garda business, including the operation of the statutory Garda Youth Diversion Programme. As Minister, I play no role in these independent functions. The aim of the Garda Youth Diversion Programme is to prevent...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (12 Oct 2021)

James Browne: I propose to take Questions Nos. 463 and 464 together. I am deeply conscious of how important the granting of naturalisation is to those who apply for it and my Department has continued to accept and process citizenship applications throughout the pandemic and at all levels of public health restrictions. However, the combined impact of the 2019 Jones judgment and the necessary health and...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Smuggling of Persons) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (7 Oct 2021)

James Browne: I thank the Senators for their proposal. I recognise the desire to increase clarity in this area. In providing a general defence of humanitarian assistance, we are going well beyond what most other member states have done in the implementation of the same directive.The discretion in Article 1(2) to exclude humanitarian assistance from the scope of the offence has been taken up by only seven...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Smuggling of Persons) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (7 Oct 2021)

James Browne: I thank the Senators for their comments. There are two aspects to the amendment: adding a definition of "people smuggling" in the first place and including in that new definition a qualification that it is for the purposes of obtaining a financial or other material benefit. In terms of having a definition at all, the specific term of "smuggling of people" is not used in the offences as...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Smuggling of Persons) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (7 Oct 2021)

James Browne: I thank the Senators for their comments and I appreciate why this amendment is being sought. It is important to emphasise that the State protects the rights of all of those who come into the State, whether they have been smuggled or not, and those rights arise under the Constitution as well as the 1951 convention, the ECHR and other instruments. Both the ECHR and the 1951 convention are...