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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Seekers (10 Mar 2021)

Helen McEntee: Ireland has opted-in to what is commonly referred to as the Dublin III Regulation (Regulation (EU) No. 604/2013). The Dublin Regulation sets out the criteria and mechanisms for determining the Member State responsible for examining an application for international protection made in one of the Member States. The European Union (Dublin System) Regulations 2018 (SI No. 62 of 2018) came...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Advertising (10 Mar 2021)

Helen McEntee: I wish to advise the Deputy that my Department has been working closely with all government departments to support the national COVID-19 effort. My Department has contributed to, and participated in, the large scale cross-Government communications programme which has been running since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. This has involved supporting and amplifying Government and public...

Seanad: Children (Amendment) Bill 2020: Report and Final Stages (5 Mar 2021)

Helen McEntee: I thank all of the Senators for their contributions, particularly Senator McDowell. I have reflected on the points from last week and I appreciate the spirit of co-operation there has been. Senator McDowell's amendment has not been put forward to change policy or the context but to change the form. I know there are merits to this approach and it is not that we just go with what the norm is...

Seanad: Children (Amendment) Bill 2020: Report and Final Stages (5 Mar 2021)

Helen McEntee: I reassure the Senator there is flexibility. While I have said that subsection (a) does not apply where the child is deceased or where there is only one living child involved, a court may still apply a flexible approach where there is only one child living and it needs to give consideration to the impact on that child if their sibling is deceased. That flexibility remains within the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Applications (4 Mar 2021)

Helen McEntee: The Citizenship Division of the Immigration Service of my Department has corresponded with the person concerned on a number of occasions (by post on 13 September 2018 and again on 4 March 2019 and by email in January 2021). It should be noted that the address on record for the person concerned does not match the address provided in the details supplied by the Deputy. The person concerned...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Training (4 Mar 2021)

Helen McEntee: I have requested the information sought by the Deputy from An Garda Síochána, but I have not received this information in time. I will write to the Deputy as soon as the information is to hand.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Parliamentary Questions (4 Mar 2021)

Helen McEntee: The Deputy will be aware that the Garda Commissioner is responsible, by law, for the management and administration of An Garda Síochána including recruitment and human resources matters, and I, as Minister, have no direct role in the matter. The Deputy has requested statistical information for each of the years 2018 to 2021 in relation to - 1. New recruits, actual and projected...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Recruitment (4 Mar 2021)

Helen McEntee: The Deputy will be aware that the Garda Commissioner is responsible, by law, for the management and administration of An Garda Síochána, including recruitment and human resources matters, and I, as Minister, have no direct role in the matter. As the Deputy will appreciate, recruitment to An Garda Síochána is governed by the Garda Síochána (Admissions and...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (4 Mar 2021)

Helen McEntee: As the Deputy will be aware, the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (GSOC) has a hugely important role to play in ensuring that public confidence in An Garda Síochána is safeguarded and, as such, it is an independent oversight body with extensive powers under the Garda Síochána Act 2005. The Government is committed to ensuring that GSOC has the necessary...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (4 Mar 2021)

Helen McEntee: The Deputy will be aware that the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (GSOC) was established as a statutorily independent body, under the Garda Síochána Act 2005. I have no role or function in the processing or management of complaints which are made to GSOC for investigation. GSOC’s main area of responsibility is to deal with complaints concerning Garda...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Closed-Circuit Television Systems (4 Mar 2021)

Helen McEntee: As the Deputy will be aware, decisions in relation to the introduction or extension of Garda CCTV systems are, by law, matters for the Garda Commissioner. As Minister, I have no responsibility for these decisions. Community-based CCTV is governed by Section 38(3)(c) of the Garda Síochána Act 2005 and the Garda Síochána (CCTV) Order 2006 (SI 289 of 2006). This legal...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Land Ownership (3 Mar 2021)

Helen McEntee: Statutory provisions concerning the registration of easements are contained in the Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Act 2009, as amended by the Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2011. Part 8 (Chapter 1) of the Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Act 2009 updated the law concerning the acquisition of easements, including rights of way, based on recommendations of the Law Reform Commission....

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Rental Sector (3 Mar 2021)

Helen McEntee: The provision of property services to consumers in Ireland is subject to a detailed legislative framework of licensing, regulation, monitoring and enforcement, under the Property Services Regulation Act 2011. The 2011 Act also established the Property Services Regulatory Authority (PSRA), an independent statutory regulatory body specifically tasked with responsibility for licensing and...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Alcohol Sales (3 Mar 2021)

Helen McEntee: I propose to take Questions Nos. 650 and 659 together. The Justice Plan 2021, which I published last week, commits to reviewing and modernising alcohol licensing. Our hospitality and cultural sectors have been hardest hit by the pandemic, with many pubs and venues not opening their doors for a year. As part of my plan to build a justice system that works for everyone, I want to help...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Crime Data (3 Mar 2021)

Helen McEntee: As the Deputy is aware the Central Statistics Office (CSO), as the national statistical agency, is responsible for the compilation and publication of all crime statistics. The CSO produces these statistics using data recorded on An Garda Síochána’s PULSE system and makes regular releases under reservation in relation to various crime statistics, including recorded and...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Strength (3 Mar 2021)

Helen McEntee: The Deputy will be aware that the Garda Commissioner is by law responsible for the management and administration of An Garda Síochána, including personnel matters and deployment of resources. The allocation of Garda resources is made in light of identified operational demand. This includes deployment of personnel among the various Garda Divisions. As Minister, I have no direct...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Missing Persons (3 Mar 2021)

Helen McEntee: I propose to take Questions Nos. 653 to 656, inclusive, together. I can inform the Deputy that some preliminary work was carried out by An Garda Síochána in 2019, to record unidentified remains that may be located with individual Coroners across the country. My officials are examining ways to update and take forward that work, while fully respecting the independent role of the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Seekers (3 Mar 2021)

Helen McEntee: The International Protection Office (IPO) of my Department is responsible for examining all applications received. The staff of the IPO (the Chief International Protection Officer and the International Protection Officers) are independent by law in the exercise of their international protection functions. My Department has continued to accept and process international protection applications...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prisoner Transfers (3 Mar 2021)

Helen McEntee: As the Deputy is aware, Section 11 of the Transfer of Sentenced Persons Act, 1995 requires me to make a report to the Houses of the Oireachtas on the operation of matters within the Act in the preceding year. While there was a delay in the publication of the report last year, I can confirm that the 2019 Annual Report on the operation of the Transfer of Sentenced Persons Act 1995...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic Violence (3 Mar 2021)

Helen McEntee: I propose to take Questions Nos. 660 and 661 together. I am informed that the Garda Síochána Analysis Service, having reviewed the recorded data, are unable to provide the statistics requested by the Deputy. They have informed me that trying to establish unique persons in these incidents would require the expenditure of a disproportionate amount of staff time and resources in order...