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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...

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...