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Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2023-0104

Requester Type 1. The number of complaints received by the Department of Justice relating to the judicial system each year from 2018 to 2022 (inclusive).

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
21 March 2023

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Requester Type 2. A breakdown of the types of complaints received in each of the above stated years, specifically any complaints regarding sentencing practices. 3. The number of (and any additional information on) complaints received by the Department in each of the above stated years in which the conduct of a judge formed the basis of the complaint.

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Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2023-0109

Requester Type I am looking for all correspondence to and from the Minister for Justice in relation to the Oliver Bond flat complex in Dublin from 1 January 2023 to 20 February 2023. I am specifically interested in crime and anti-social behaviour.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
21 March 2023

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Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2023-0090

Requester Type Correspondence between the Department of Justice and the Data Protection Commission (DPC) in relation to the announced plans to appoint two new commissioners to the DPC. Specifically, all correspondence relevant to the matter between Ministers McEntee or Harris, Secretary General Oonagh McPhillips or Principal Officer Tara Storey and the DPC, between the dates 23 July 2022 and 14 February 2023. All briefing documents prepared for the Minister in relation to the same matter prior to the July 2022 announcement.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
22 March 2023

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Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2023-0126

Requester Type Records created on or after 1 January 2022 until 27 February 2023 relating to carrier liability fines imposed on airlines in 2022 under the Immigration Act 2003 (Carrier Liability) Regulations 2003, or, in the alternative, a list of airlines with the number of fines issued in 2022.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
23 March 2023

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Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2023-0162

Requester Type The meeting minutes of the Firearms Expert Committee (FEC). This is where they publish their meeting reports: https://www.gov.ie/en/publication/8fa98-firearms-expert-committee/ Can I get the meeting minutes for the first 8 meetings.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
27 March 2023

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Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2023-0181

Requester Type A complete and unedited copy of all minutes taken during all meetings of the Firearms Expert Committee from 2022 to 2023.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
27 March 2023

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Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2023-0027

Requester Type TRIS Notification of Communications (Retention of Data) (Amendment) Act 2022. This is a FOI request for all records relating to the notification of the above Act under the TRIS procedure (Directive 2015/1535) including any correspondence with the NSAI.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
28 March 2023

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Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2023-0026

Requester Type Communications (Retention of Data) (Amendment) Act 2022. This is a FOI request for records relating to the drafting and adoption of the above Act. On records created between 1 April 2022 and 31 May 2022.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
29 March 2023

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Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2023-0045

Requester Type All documents and records, including records in electronic format, from 31 May 2022 to 23 January 2023, held by your Department concerning proposed changes to the roster of Immigration Control Officers at Dublin Airport. In particular, such records should include any emails & correspondence between BMU management & Justice HR officials on the matter and any proposed alternative rosters.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
29 March 2023

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Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2023-0095

Requester Type e-Sub relating to the Immigrant Investor Programme - Immigration permissions and invested projects (FOI Request – 2022-0601 refers).

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
29 March 2023

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Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2023-0110

Requester Type I'm requesting correspondence between the Minister and the Commissioner regarding: 1. GSOC/Independent Police Ombudsman. 2. The Policing Security and Community Safety Bill. From 01 January 2021 to date of request.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
29 March 2023

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Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2023-0131

Requester Type A copy of any briefings, memos, reports, submissions, or other such high- level documents prepared for the Minister or the Secretary General with regard to the decision to appoint 24 additional judges to the bench.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
29 March 2023

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Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2023-0083

Requester Type All records in relation to either Minister McEntee or Minister Harris and the Department discussing and or considering Section 52 of S.I No. 252/2007 - Prison Rules, 2007 in relation to the separation of male and female prisoners.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
03 April 2023

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Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2022-0570

Requester Type Copies of all correspondence to/from the secretary general related to the return to office working at the Department following the Covid-19 pandemic. · The correspondence can be limited to items to/from the following: Ministers; unions. · The time period for the correspondence can be limited to 1 August 2022 to 18 October 2022. · Details of the total number of staff employed by the Department as of 18 October 2022 and a breakdown of how many are working from home; working in the office; working in a hybrid arrangement. · Copies of any internal publications/reports on remote working/return to the office drawn up since 31 January 2022.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
04 April 2023

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Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2023-0132

Requester Type How many people have been deported from Ireland after their asylum application has been rejected since 2010. If possible, can details of the country the person was deported to be provided too.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
04 April 2023

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Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2023-0077

Requester Type To ask the Minister for Justice and his HR/Pensions Units the number of Civil/Public Servants in his Department in the last 10 years who have been granted full-service retirement of 40 years for compassionate/ discretionary reasons when they retired on ill health grounds (on the advice of a medical advisor). (1) Can he please indicate the number of recipients whom full service has been awarded to, even, if it was beyond their nearest potential service age for retirement of 60 or 65 (whichever is applicable to their status) i.e., despite 40yrs being beyond their official retirement age they were not paid just to the nearest pensionable age but instead were awarded full pension. (2) How many years were granted to these retirees in these particular cases.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
06 April 2023

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Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2022-0459

Requester Type A complete list of vacant/unoccupied properties owned by the Department and the agencies/bodies under its aegis. Please include the name and address of each property, and its zone status (eg residential, commercial, industrial).

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
06 April 2023

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Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2023-0224

Requester Type A copy of the submission made by Racecourse Media Group Limited to James Browne, per the lobbying register. For reference, here’s a link to the lobbying register: https://www.lobbying.ie/return/94748/racecourse-media-group-limited

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
17 April 2023

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Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2023-0176

Requester Type A copy of IPO’s procedure to mitigate the issue of homeless tents outside its premises.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
17 April 2023

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Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2023-0134

Requester Type Figures from 2018 to 2022 on refugee status granted and refused, and also subsidiary protection applications granted and refused. I also wish to request the total payment to panel members for the 5 years in question as well as the number of cases on hands as of 31 December 2022.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
17 April 2023

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Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2023-0209

Requester Type A copy of the submission made to Minister of State James Browne by Racecourse Media Group Ltd which is referenced in this lobbying report: https://www.lobbying.ie/return/94748/racecourse-media-group-limited

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
17 April 2023

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Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2023-0173

Requester Type Copies of the central registers maintained by the Department of Justice, as per its obligations as set out under Department of Public Expenditure and Reform Circular 01/2020: Procedures for Offsetting the Emissions Associating with Official Air Travel. Under the Circular, it is expected that registers contain details of individual flights, associated greenhouse gas emissions, and the monetary value calculated for each flight to be paid into the Climate Action Fund by the Department.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
18 April 2023

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Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2023-0183

Requester Type 1. Kindly provide the up to date Departmental guidance to staff working under the Atypical Working Visa Scheme Department in respect of processing and/or evaluating applications. 2. Kindly provide any memorandum, guidance document, or process document furnished to staff in the Atypical Working Visa Scheme Department of the Department of Justice to evaluate whether a

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
18 April 2023

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Requester Type document submitted by an applicant has been created digitally or not. 3. Kindly furnish the total amount of applications under the Atypical Working Visa Scheme for 2022 and clarify how man were successful.

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Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2023-0187

Requester Type Recently responded to FOI DOJ-FOI-2023-007 stated that in the last five years there were approximately 4131 deportation orders served of which the Government enforced 314. 1. The breakdown of the issued deportation orders into however the Department sub classifies the cause of each deportation order ie. Failed asylum seeker, sexual assault, criminality. 2. The number of forced deportations carried out once again broke up into above sub categories.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
19 April 2023

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Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2023-0145

Requester Type I request copies of correspondence and minutes of meetings between the Minister McEntee and the Irish Penal Reform Trust on the subject of parole and parole for determinate sentenced prisoners from the 1 January 2022 to 28 February 2023.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
19 April 2023

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Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2023-0073

Requester Type I wish to obtain copies of all audit reports into the Immigrant investor Scheme and copies of any reports sent to the Justice Minister concerning the findings contained in the audits and any issues identified.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
19 April 2023

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Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2023-0195

Requester Type I would like to make a FOI request for any emails and texts correspondence between: The Minister of State at the Department of Justice James Browne TD and a named member of the Firearms Expert Committee (FEC).

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
24 April 2023

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Requester Type Emails and texts correspondence between: Minister of State at the Department of Justice James Browne TD and the Firearms Expert Committee (FEC) chairperson. Emails and texts correspondence between: Minister of State at the Department of Justice James Browne TD and the Firearms Expert Committee (FEC) Secretary.

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Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2023-0130

Requester Type Memos, briefing notes and reports related to the GSOC structural review and business analysis since 1 January 2021 to the date of this request. (as mentioned at the end of this press release https://www.gardaombudsman.ie/news-room/archive/gsoc-publishes-its- 2021- annual-report-gsoc-in-transition/) “This includes the commencement of a thorough structural review and business analysis to inform the business, staffing and resourcing demands of the reformed organisation. This review will be completed in 2022”.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
26 April 2023

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Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2023-0179

Requester Type I am submitting an FOI request under the Act recording discussions by Minister Harris and the Department as to whether Minister Harris has an ethical obligation to make a disclosure of interest in relation to his brother, Mr Adam Harris being a member of the Board of Rethink Ireland, which receives Government Funding, which is providing funding for an entity entitled Far Right Observatory who declared purpose is overtly political and involves 'innovate new approaches to disrupt and minimise the harm of far right extremism'.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
27 April 2023

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Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2023-0201

Requester Type Copies of any correspondence between the management team of the IPO and its parent Department with regard to lack of resources, either staffing

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
28 April 2023

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Requester Type or other types of resources, in the period 1 January 2023 to 29 March 2023.

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Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2023-0215

Requester Type The Irish response to the EU Commission questionnaire on spyware of 21 December 2022.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
28 April 2023

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Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2022-0179

Requester Type All records containing the keywords “covid” and “protest” created between 25 May 2020 and 31 October 2020 and held in the Minister’s Office or the Office of the Secretary General.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
28 April 2023

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Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2023-0256

Requester Type A list of all Peace commissioners in Thurles and the dates of their appointment to the role.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
28 April 2023

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Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2023-0154

Requester Type All records held by the Department of Justice relating to the granting of consents including but not limited to general consents by the Minister for Justice to the Legal Aid Board pursuant to section 3(2) of the Civil Legal Aid Act 1995 to acquire Interests in property.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
05 May 2023

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Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2023-0197

Requester Type A copy of any briefings, reports, memos, submissions, or other such high- level documents prepared for either the Minister or the secretary general with regard to the decision to cease the immigrant investor programme.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
08 May 2023

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Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2023-0226

Requester Type 1. All records (including of origin information) relied upon by the Minister or consulted by the Minister before designating Georgia as a safe country by SI 121 of 2018 relevant to the said designation. 2. All records in relation to whether there has been any review pursuant to section 72(5) of the International Protection Act, 2015 of Georgia`s said designation (by SI 121 of 2018) as a safe country.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
10 May 2023

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Requester Type 3. If there has been such a review pursuant to section 72(5) all records in relation to the number and frequency of such review(s) and when it/they took place. 4. All records relied upon by the Minister or consulted by the Minister in conducting any such review(s) pursuant to section 72(5).

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Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2023-0232

Requester Type A list of e-submissions submitted to the Minister through the e- submissions channel. I wish for my request to cover the period from 1 February 2023 – 11 April 2023.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
10 May 2023

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Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2023-0234

Requester Type All documents relating to the retirement of named person as Coroner for the district of Galway West and the appointment of named person. All documents that are sought relate to not only the internal appointment process but any information exchanged between your entity and Galway City Council and Galway County Council for the retirement and appointment process.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
11 May 2023

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Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2023-0096

Requester Type Copy of E-Submission for Afghan admission programme information note.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
12 May 2023

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Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2023-0203

Requester Type Record/spreadsheet/database of the number of representations received from TDs or Senators on behalf of prisoners or individuals convicted of an offence for the calendar year 2022, broken down by month, and by Oireachtas member. And an (anonymised) copy of each such representation made in Q4 of 2022.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
12 May 2023

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Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2023-0220

Requester Type I wanted to know the names of the organisations in the last year who have had people volunteering for them who are availing of the volunteer visa scheme.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
15 May 2023

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Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2023-0238

Requester Type All records relating to the recent publicised statement by Drew Harris regarding monitoring of online commentary regarding the East Wall protests.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
15 May 2023

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Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2023-0254

Requester Type 1. A copy of the independent research, ‘Report on Approaches to the Concept of Parental Alienation in other Jurisdictions’ that has been delayed on a number of occasions for publication “A final draft report, identifying findings, analysis, and implications to be submitted to the Department of Justice by 30 November 2021.” 2. The number of/and breakdown of submissions by individuals and organisations that submitted to the ‘Open Consultation on Parental Alienation’ and if the report on these submissions will meet the targeted publication date outlined in Family Justice Strategy for Quarter 2 2023. In addition, if this deadline is not achievable, what date is it anticipated that this report be published? 3. Evidence of any Departmental (DoJ) guidelines or information that states as a matter of good governance that the primary stakeholders (alienated parents) involved in an abusive/traumatic issue such as that of domestic violence or parental alienation survivors must or will be briefed prior to the publication of the resultant report on parental alienation (‘Report on Approaches to the Concept of Parental Alienation in other Jurisdictions’ and report on Public Consultations) as has been already set in precedent in the “Mother and Baby Homes” reporting process to survivors (the primary stakeholders) of that abuse.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
15 May 2023

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Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2023-0268

Requester Type Records relating to the budget for Ireland's Witness Security Programme every year since its inception.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
15 May 2023

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Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2023-0273

Requester Type I am requesting every version of the Climate Action Plan / Action Plan for the Climate, which every organisation is obliged to have according to the Climate Act, with: 1. Complete details of every Plan that you had since the going into effect / entry into force of the Act; 2. Date that every Plan was published; 3. Date that every Plan went into effect / entered into force; 4. The amount of money, itemised according to the causes of the costs, spent on creating and implementing each Plan.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
15 May 2023

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