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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (13 Oct 2020)

Helen McEntee: The information requested by the Deputy is not compiled in a manner to allow for the identification of applications for naturalisation made by students, including from those who have received results in this year's Leaving Certificate. The retrieval of this data would require a case by case examination of all applications received and would represent a significant diversion of resources from...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (13 Oct 2020)

Helen McEntee: The application for a certificate of naturalisation from the person referred to by the Deputy, continues to be processed. The Citizenship Division of the Immigration Service of my Department corresponded with the applicant in March of this year, advising that the application was undergoing further processing. The granting of Irish citizenship through naturalisation is a privilege and an...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Vetting (13 Oct 2020)

Helen McEntee: The Deputy will be aware that vetting applications are an operational matter for An Garda Síochána. Neither I, as Minister, nor my Department have any role in the processing of individual vetting applications. I would emphasise to the Deputy that the primary purpose of the employment vetting carried out by the National Vetting Bureau is to seek to ensure the safety of children...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (13 Oct 2020)

Helen McEntee: Appeals are processed in the order in which they are received in order to be fair to all applicants. While every effort is made to process appeals received as soon as possible, processing times will vary having regard to the volume of appeals received, the resources available to process them and the complexity of the application and subsequent appeal. Processing times may also increase...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (13 Oct 2020)

Helen McEntee: All visa appeals are processed in chronological order, based on date order of receipt. While every effort is made to process appeals as soon as possible, processing times will vary having regard to the volume and complexity of cases and the possible need for the Immigration Service of my Department to investigate, inquire into, or seek information, and the resources available. In line with...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Measures (13 Oct 2020)

Helen McEntee: The Programme for Government commits to ‘review and reform defamation laws to ensure a balanced approach to the right to freedom of expression, the right to protection of good name and reputation, and the right of access to justice’. The review of the Defamation Act 2009 is currently being completed by my Department. The objective set for the defamation review is to balance...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Travel Documents (13 Oct 2020)

Helen McEntee: Based on the information supplied, it has unfortunately not been possible to locate the application for the person referred to by the Deputy. If more information can be provided, my officials will re-examine the Deputy's request. Any person requiring their documents to be returned from the Registration Office should supply the An Post Reference Number and the Application Reference number...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Leave to Remain (13 Oct 2020)

Helen McEntee: On 18 September 2020, I announced that a further temporary extension of immigration and international protection permissions has been granted to 20 January 2021. This applies to permissions that are due to expire between 20 September 2020 and 20 January 2021. The person concerned should send their renewal application directly to repatadmin@justice.ie six weeks in advance of the new expiry...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Communications (13 Oct 2020)

Helen McEntee: My Department did not engage any third party company in 2017, 2019 and 2020 to conduct monitoring of or provide reports on social media coverage across Twitter or Facebook.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Covid-19 Pandemic (13 Oct 2020)

Helen McEntee: As the Deputy will be aware, Covid-19 clearly provides unique challenges to congregated settings, including our prisons. Covid-19 in a prison setting would present significant challenges for prison management in terms of controlling the spread of the virus amongst staff and prisoners, the provision of appropriate medical treatment to affected persons and the maintenance of staffing levels....

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Registration of Wills (13 Oct 2020)

Helen McEntee: The possible establishment of such a register has been suggested on a number of occasions, including in a number of Private Members Bills. Consultations with a number of stakeholders, including the Law Society, have however, identified a number of important practical and legal obstacles to establishing such a mechanism. In the first instance, registration of a will would not guarantee its...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Courts Service (13 Oct 2020)

Helen McEntee: Under the provisions of the Courts Service Act 1998, management of the courts is the responsibility of the Courts Service which is independent in exercising its functions. However, in order to be of assistance to the Deputy, I have had enquiries made and the Courts Service has informed me that the taxation of costs hearings was the first body of adjourned work to be dealt with by the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Courts Service (13 Oct 2020)

Helen McEntee: Legal Cost Adjudicators are independent office holders attached to the High Court. In order to be of assistance to the Deputy, I have had enquires made and the Office of the Legal Costs Adjudicator (OLCA) has informed me that, assuming all formalities have been completed, the current waiting times for a case to be listed for hearing by the Office currently stands at approximately 16...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (13 Oct 2020)

Helen McEntee: Detailed information on the circumstances in which a person, who is not a refugee, can seek to sponsor a non-EEA national family member to join and reside with them in the State is contained in the Policy Document on Non-EEA Family Reunification, which can be found on the Immigration Service website at: . If the family members are visa required nationals they must seek the appropriate visa...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Public Inquiries (13 Oct 2020)

Helen McEntee: As the Deputy will be aware, a retired judge, Gerard Haughton, is conducting a scoping exercise into the tragic death of the person in question, whose case has been discussed in Dáil Éireann on a number of occasions. The judge furnished an interim report to my predecessor on 13 November last. Following consultation between Judge Haughton, the family concerned, and the Attorney...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (13 Oct 2020)

Helen McEntee: The "Join Family" visa application referred to by the Deputy was submitted to the Dar-es-Salaam Visa Office on 10 March 2020, for processing in accordance with the guidelines set out in the Policy Document on Non-EEA Family Reunification. The Policy Document contains a stated business target that visa applications to join Irish citizen family members should be dealt with within six...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Property Management Companies (13 Oct 2020)

Helen McEntee: The Multi-Unit Developments Act 2011 was enacted with the primary purposes of reforming the law relating to the ownership and management of common areas of multi-unit developments and facilitating the fair, efficient and effective management of owners' management companies (OMCs). These are companies registered under the Companies Act, the members of which are the owners of residential units...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Seekers (13 Oct 2020)

Helen McEntee: For reasons of maintaining full confidentiality, it is not my Department's practice to comment on whether an application for asylum or subsidiary protection has been made in the State. An applicant for such protection status, or their legal representative, should contact either the International Protection Office (IPO) or the International Protection Appeals Tribunal (IPAT) directly, as...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Aid Service (13 Oct 2020)

Helen McEntee: The International Protection Solicitors Panel, which is provided by the Legal Aid Board (LAB), plays an important role in providing legal assistance to people making an application for international protection and permission to remain in the State. Solicitors on the Panel provide a range of legal services including assistance with the international protection questionnaire and interview...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (8 Oct 2020)

Helen McEntee: The application for a certificate of naturalisation from the person referred to by the Deputy is awaiting documentation requested by the Citizenship Division of my Department on 8 January 2019, and requested again in correspondence to the applicant's legal representative on 24 June 2019 and 27 August 2019. In order for my Department to proceed with the application, the applicant must forward...