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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Freedom of Speech (18 Apr 2024)

Helen McEntee: The Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill will legislate against hate crimes for the first time in Irish law and bring us into line with our European counterparts. It will also update our existing incitement to hatred laws dating from 1989 to ensure compliance with EU law and to better reflect modern methods of communicating. In doing so, it will update...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Data Protection (18 Apr 2024)

Helen McEntee: As the Deputy will be aware, the Garda Commissioner is responsible for the management and administration of Garda business under Section 26 of the Garda Síochána Act 2005 (as amended). This includes resource management for the service. I am informed by the Garda authorities that they can confirm that GDPR was not, at any point, a factor when responding to the Deputy's previous...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Family Reunification (18 Apr 2024)

Helen McEntee: I understand that officials in the Family Reunification Unit of my Department have issued correspondence by email and post directly to the solicitor of the applicant referred to by the Deputy on 17 April 2024. The Family Reunification Unit will continue to engage with the applicant and their solicitor on this matter. Queries in relation to the status of individual immigration cases...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: EU Bodies (18 Apr 2024)

Helen McEntee: I propose to take Questions Nos. 244 and 245 together. It has not been possible to collate the information requested by the Deputy in the time available. I will write to the Deputy directly once the information is to hand.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Family Reunification (18 Apr 2024)

Helen McEntee: The current immigration arrangements for family reunification are set out in the Policy Document for Non-EEA Family Reunification, which is available on my Department's website. The policy document sets out the rationale for applying resource requirements as part of the overall assessment of whether to approve an application for family reunification. In general, Healthcare assistants are...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Seekers (18 Apr 2024)

Helen McEntee: I can confirm that my Department takes all necessary steps to manage the international protection process efficiently and effectively, while ensuring the integrity of those processes is maintained at all times. Making sure that applications are processed quickly means those who need our protection are given the opportunity to re-build their life in Ireland in a timely manner. It also means...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Deportation Orders (18 Apr 2024)

Helen McEntee: A deportation order is a legal order to leave the State. Any person who has been ordered to leave the State and fails to do so is committing a criminal offence, and can be arrested without warrant if they come into contact with An Garda Síochána. Such an order remains on the person’s record permanently – it means they cannot enter Ireland again in future, and it will...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Seekers (18 Apr 2024)

Helen McEntee: The Border Management Unit (BMU) of my Department is responsible for front-line Immigration at Dublin Airport only, as such the below figures reflect the position at Dublin Airport. Other airports and other ports of entry are the responsibility of the Garda National Immigration Bureau (GNIB) and data as requested is not collated in this manner for other ports of entry. The BMU and the GNIB...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Seekers (18 Apr 2024)

Helen McEntee: I propose to take Questions Nos. 250 and 251 together. The Department takes all necessary steps to manage the international protection process efficiently and effectively, while ensuring the integrity of those processes is maintained at all times. The State is required to examine the application of anyone who presents at the borders of the State, or is in the State, and indicates that...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Data (18 Apr 2024)

Helen McEntee: As the Deputy may be aware, there is a robust framework of legislation in place to monitor and manage the risk posed by convicted sex offenders to the community and that it is kept under ongoing review. Under the Sex Offenders Act 2001, convicted sex offenders have to notify Gardaí of their personal details, including their name and address for a period of time after conviction, up...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (18 Apr 2024)

Helen McEntee: The person referred to by the Deputy appears to be eligible to become an Irish citizen through naturalisation, considering their reckonable residence in the state. 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...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (18 Apr 2024)

Helen McEntee: As the Deputy will be aware the Garda Commissioner is responsible for the management and administration of An Garda Síochána. This includes all recruitment and training matters. As Minister I have no role in these matters. I am committed to ensuring An Garda Síochána have the resources they need to deliver on their mission of 'Keep People Safe'. This is reflected in...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Reviews (18 Apr 2024)

Helen McEntee: As the Deputy will understand, my Department is responsible for a wide range of policy and legislative matters in relation to civil and criminal justice and the immigration system and has responsibility for a large number of statutory and non-statutory bodies. In the normal course of business the Department keeps all aspects of our policies and legislation under review in order to ensure...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Expenditure (18 Apr 2024)

Helen McEntee: As the Deputy may be aware, in 2021 I announced the creation of the Community Safety Innovation Fund (CSIF) to reinvest proceeds of crime funds returned to the exchequer by the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) back into communities, in order to fund innovative local projects aimed at building stronger, safer communities. The fund had an initial allocation of €2m in 2022, which increased to...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (18 Apr 2024)

Helen McEntee: Section 9 of the Immigration Act 2004 provides that a register of non-nationals who have permission to be in the State (in general for a period of 3 months or longer) shall be established and maintained by registration officers and also provides that a non-national is required to pay a fee to the registration officer for the issue of a registration certificate. This fee is set by regulations...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic Violence (18 Apr 2024)

Helen McEntee: I have requested the information sought by the Deputy from the Garda authorities. Unfortunately, the information was not received in time. I will contact the Deputy directly once the information is to hand.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Aid (18 Apr 2024)

Helen McEntee: The Legal Aid Board is the statutory, independent body responsible for the provision of civil legal aid and advice to persons of modest means, in accordance with the provisions of the Civil Legal Aid Act 1995 and the Civil Legal Aid Regulations 1996 to 2021. The Board engages private solicitors to supplement the services provided by Board solicitors in certain areas of law on a case-by-case...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Aid (18 Apr 2024)

Helen McEntee: The Legal Aid Board is the statutory, independent body responsible for the provision of civil legal aid and advice to persons of modest means, in accordance with the provisions of the Civil Legal Aid Act 1995 and the Civil Legal Aid Regulations 1996 to 2021. The 1995 Act was amended by Section 54 of the Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2011 which gave the Board the additional...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (18 Apr 2024)

Helen McEntee: As the Deputy will be aware, the Irish Prison Service (IPS) is a non-statutory executive agency of the Department of Justice responsible for the secure custody, care and rehabilitation of people serving a sentence in each of Ireland’s twelve prisons. The IPS is the second largest agency in the criminal justice system, with a budget of €453m in 2024 and €422m in 2023....

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Restorative Justice (18 Apr 2024)

Helen McEntee: As the Deputy will be aware, restorative justice is a criminal justice process which has been shown, through mediation, to help victims recover from crime, reduce reoffending and save public resources. It is one of a suite of measures available to the criminal justice system. It is delivered by the Probation Service, both pre and post-sentence; by An Garda Síochána within the...