Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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1152.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of WTE civilian staff, by grade, employed by her Department who work at immigration service delivery at Burgh Quay as of 27 August 2024, in tabular form.[35175/24]

Helen McEntee (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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I can inform the Deputy that my Department’s Immigration Service Delivery (ISD) function operates from several different locations nationwide, including the Border Management Unit in Dublin airport. The overall staffing involved in the delivery of immigration related services, including those associated with the International Protection system, has increased by approximately 24% during 2024 to almost 1300 by mid July.

The ISD office located at 13/14 Burgh Quay, is responsible for various immigration services including the registration of immigration permissions for customers residing in Dublin, Wicklow, Limerick, Cork and Meath.

In July, the registration of immigration residence permissions for counties Cork and Limerick transferred from An Garda Síochána to my Department. With this transfer, approximately 80% of all national registrations have transferred to my Department.

My Department will shortly assume full responsibility for registrations nationwide. Civilianising registration functions releases valuable Garda resources, allowing them to focus on operational and enforcement matters, such as deportations and investigations.

The Burgh Quay Office is also the location of several ISD units who consider applications for, and renew, a variety of immigration permissions as well as management and administrative staff.

The information requested by the Deputy is set out in the table below.