Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
FOI Requests — 3103 requests
- Part-GrantedReceived —Decided 15 December 2020Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
A copy of all documents, including any subsequent correspondence and/or internal departmental communications, related to the following lobbying return: https://www.lobbying.ie/return/61695/motor- insurers-bureau-of-ireland-mibi
- Part-GrantedReceived —Decided 15 December 2020Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
1. Any internal memos or briefing documents the Department has produced in relation to far-right groups/individuals during the period January 2019 to 4 November 2020.
- GrantedReceived —Decided 15 December 2020Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
A copy of the "Transparency Management Reports" for each month of this year.
- RefusedReceived —Decided 14 December 2020Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
It was recently reported that issues arose as to whether citizens of Chile and Georgia would be permitted to attend their respective embassies in Dublin for electoral events. I understand that this was ultimately resolved by deeming voting as an essential activity. I'm seeking records within your Department on this matter.
- Part-GrantedReceived —Decided 11 December 2020Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
Copies of all correspondence (including attachments in the case of email) and documents received or generated by the Department of Justice regarding the proposed prison site at Thornton Hall in the period 1 October 2004 to 31 January 2005 and in the period 26 September 2005 to 24 December 2005.
- RefusedReceived —Decided 11 December 2020Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
A copy of the report carried into the conduct of named person, and all related internal departmental correspondence on the matter. I am also seeking, as part of this request, all correspondence between the Department and named person, or anyone on her behalf relating to her work at the International Protection Appeals Tribunal (IPAT).
- Part-GrantedReceived —Decided 8 December 2020Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
All correspondences, between July 2020 and 26 August 2020 in relation to Direct Provision services at Hanratty’s Hotel in Limerick. All correspondences, between January 2020 and 26 August 2020 in relation to planning and implemented Direct Provision services at Griffin House, Limerick City.
- Part-GrantedReceived —Decided 7 December 2020Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
All correspondence, memos, briefings and reports created or received by the Department between 7 July and 20 July 2020 concerning the possibility of suspending, revising or otherwise reassessing Ireland's extradition treaty with Hong Kong.
- Part-GrantedReceived —Decided 7 December 2020Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
- Copies of all correspondence between local authorities and the Department of Justice since the Catherine Day expert group report on direct provision and the international protection process was published on Wednesday, 21 October. - Copies of all correspondence between NGOs and the Department of Justice since the Catherine Day expert group report on direct provision and the international protection process was published on Wednesday, 21 October. - Copies of all correspondence between the Minister for Justice and the Banking and Payments Federation between June-November 2020 on the accessibility of bank accounts for asylum seekers.
- RefusedReceived —Decided 7 December 2020Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
All briefing notes, communications and correspondence between Department of Justice officials regarding named company between 1 January 2020 to 16 November 2020.
- Part-GrantedReceived —Decided 1 December 2020Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
All briefing papers and meeting notes relating to discussions with the EU's Transport, Telecommunications and Energy Council on the impact to Ireland of a proposed directive to end seasonal time changes.
- GrantedReceived —Decided 1 December 2020Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
A breakdown of the members of the Evaluation Committee of the Immigrant Investor Programme (IIP).
- GrantedReceived —Decided 1 December 2020Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
The 'Report of Refusals to Land' for each year (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018) from 1st January 2015 to 31st December 2018.
- Part-GrantedReceived —Decided 1 December 2020Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
- Copies of all correspondence between the Department and An Garda Síochána with regard to the provision of funding for the set-up of regional cyber-crime units. - Copies of all correspondence between the Department and D/PER with regard to the above.
- Part-GrantedReceived —Decided 1 December 2020Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
Copies of any briefings, reports, submissions, memos, or other such review/overview or discussion documents prepared for the Minister or the Secretary General relating to a request for Ireland to take a number of unaccompanied minors from the migrant camp at Moria in Greece.
- RefusedReceived —Decided 1 December 2020Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
A copy of a recent letter written to the Department of Justice from the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission in relation to the Immigrant Investor Programme Evaluation Committee and submission(s) received by it from the Department of Agriculture Food and Marine.
- Part-GrantedReceived —Decided 1 December 2020Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
Submissions from the Department of Justice to the Department of Public Expenditure concerning the Department's request/submission for funding its activities for 2021 as part of the 2021 budgetary process.
- GrantedReceived —Decided 1 December 2020Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
A copy of all documents, including any subsequent correspondence and/or internal departmental communications, related to the following lobbying return: https://www.lobbying.ie/return/62218/law-society-of- ireland
- RefusedReceived —Decided 1 December 2020Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
An email from the Institute of Advertising Practitioners of Ireland received by Minister Frances Fitzgerald in 2017, as listed on the lobbying register:
- RefusedReceived —Decided 1 December 2020Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
All correspondence to and from the Minister in relation to the proposed family court complex at Hammond Lane between July 2020 and 2 November 2020.
- Part-GrantedReceived —Decided 1 December 2020Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
A copy of the pre-budget submission from your Department to the Department of Finance ahead of Budget 2021. A copy of any cover, explanatory or accompanying letters sent by the Minister or Secretary General of your Department along with the pre-budget submission.
- Part-GrantedReceived —Decided 1 December 2020Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
Any Correspondence between officials at the grade of APO and higher in the Department of Justice and officials from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform in respect of Budget 2021 - timeframe of 1 April 2020 to 13 October 2020 inclusive.
- RefusedReceived —Decided 1 December 2020Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
Copies of all of the complaints made to the Parole Board since 1 January 2020.
- RefusedReceived —Decided 1 December 2020Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
A copy the report drawn up by the chair of IPAT into the attendance of named person at a protest on 22 August in Dublin.
- RefusedReceived —Decided 27 November 2020Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
A copy of all correspondence (including emails) between (to and from) Justice Minister and the governors of all prisons, in relation to Covid-19, since March 1, 2020.
- Part-GrantedReceived —Decided 26 November 2020Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
1. All correspondence between the International Protection Accommodation Service and named persons in relation to transfers of residents of Ciúin House, The Paddocks, Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim, from April 2019 til the present date, including but not limited to: emails, notes from phone conversations, notes from meetings, text and WhatsApp messages. 2. All documents and correspondence relating to background checks
- Part-GrantedReceived —Decided 26 November 2020Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
- All internal and external correspondence received and/or sent by the Department of Justice in relation to the Skellig Star Hotel/Skellig Star Direct Provision Centre (AKA Watermarque Hotel) in Cahersiveen, Co Kerry, in particular its potential and subsequent use as a centre to accommodate asylum seekers, anytime between 22 April and 4 September, 2020. - All correspondence received by Minister Helen McEntee about the Skellig Star Direct Provision Centre in Cahersiveen since she took over as Minister in the Department of Justice.
- RefusedReceived —Decided 26 November 2020Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
- Access to all official correspondence held by the Department of Justice in relation to the Children Act 2001 that was released after the effective date of 21 April 1998. The following material: 90/93/43 | Children's amendment Act 1949: proposed bill to authorise the committal to a reformatory school of girls up to the age of 17 years who are in moral danger | 1942-60 90/93/49 | Juvenile delinquency: establishment of inter- departmental
- Part-GrantedReceived —Decided 19 November 2020Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
A copy of any submissions, reports, memos, or other such review or briefing documents relating to the hunger strike that took place at the Cahirciveen direct provision centre. Copies of any correspondence between the Department or its agencies and the operators of Cahirciveen direct provision centre in the period 1 July 2020 to 1 August 2020.
- RefusedReceived —Decided 19 November 2020Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
Please provide details of all payments made by the Department to the Law Society, since the current Director General took office 25yrs ago. Kindly advise the nature of the relationship between the Law Society and the Department of Justice please and what reports the Law Society provides to the Department of Justice.
- GrantedReceived —Decided 19 November 2020Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
The letter referred to in this lobbying return: https://www.lobbying.ie/return/62402/bartra-capital-property- management-limited-trading-as-bartra-capital-property
- RefusedReceived —Decided 9 November 2020Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
Correspondence between the Minister and the Chief Executive of the Irish Prison Service between 1 July and 28 September 2020.
- GrantedReceived —Decided 9 November 2020Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
Correspondence between the Minister and the Chief Executive of the Forensic Science Ireland between 1 July and 28 September 2020.
- GrantedReceived —Decided 9 November 2020Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
Correspondence between the Minister and the Chief Executive of the Policing Authority between 1 July and 28 September 2020.
- GrantedReceived —Decided 9 November 2020Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
Correspondence between the Minister and the Chief Executive of the Insolvency Service of Ireland between 1 July and 28 September 2020.
- RefusedReceived —Decided 9 November 2020Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
Correspondence between the Minister and the Chief Executive of the Private Security Authority between 1 July and 28 September 2020.
- GrantedReceived —Decided 6 November 2020Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
1. All communications relating to reviews of social media regarding direct provision between officials in the Department of Justice's Transparency Unit, officials in the International Protection Office, and officials in the International Protection Accommodation Service, including but not limited to Principal Officers, Assistant Principal Officers, Directors, Deputy Secretary Generals, and the Secretary General; including but not limited to emails, notes from phone conversations, notes from meetings; from March 2020 to the time of submitting this request. 2. All communications relating to reviews of social media regarding direct provision between Department of Justice officials - including but not limited to Principal Officers, Assistant Principal Officers, Directors, Deputy Secretary Generals and the Secretary General - and the Minister for Justice and Equality and the Minister of State for the Department of Justice and Equality; including but not limited to emails, notes from
- GrantedReceived —Decided 6 November 2020Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
The social media evaluation reports prepared by the Transparency Unit of the Department of Justice related to any of the below topics: -Sex work -Prostitution -Sex trafficking -Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) 2017 Act
- GrantedReceived —Decided 6 November 2020Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
All information held by the Transparency Unit on social media tweets about Direct Provision since 1 June 2020. All correspondence between the Transparency Unit and the Ministers, the Ministers' secretaries and the Department's General Secretary on social media tweets about Direct Provision since 1 June 2020.
- Part-GrantedReceived —Decided 6 November 2020Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
Any records within Justice and between Justice officials and any outside parties such as PR advisors, other Government departments, discussing the creation of the social media monitoring on direct provision prior to and post the creation of social media monitoring reports.
- GrantedReceived —Decided 6 November 2020Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
All correspondence to/from the Department related to the monitoring of social media posts about Direct Provision for the period dating 1 January 2020 to 17 August 2020.
- RefusedReceived —Decided 6 November 2020Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
1. All correspondence to/from the Department involving residents of Treacy's Hotel, Monaghan, Direct Provision centre from 1 March 2020 to today 28 August 2020. 2. All correspondence to/from the Department related to Treacy's Hotel Direct Provision Centre in Monaghan from 1 March 2020 to today 28 August 2020.
- RefusedReceived —Decided 6 November 2020Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
The total cost from the Attorney General Office and the Minister for Justice Office and any other office that may have been called upon in regards to the correct wording of the final report from the Inquiry into the storage and retention of investigation files relating to the death of named person in a road traffic accident which was conducted by named person. Also, the total cost from the Attorney General Office and Minister for Justice Office and any other office that may have been called upon in regards to the correct wording of the final report from the inquiry into responses made on the night of the death of named person by the Garda Síochána, and the conduct and adequacy of the Garda Síochána investigation conducted thereafter which was conducted by named person.
- GrantedReceived —Decided 6 November 2020Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
A complete breakdown of the total cost of the Independent Review Mechanism which was set up in regards to alleged Garda misconduct.
- GrantedReceived —Decided 6 November 2020Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
A full breakdown on the cost of the section 42 Garda Síochána Inquiry into the death and Garda handling of named person which was conducted by named person.
- RefusedReceived —Decided 5 November 2020Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
Please provide figures as to the number of referrals made to Tusla in relation to children in direct provision centres since the start of 2019, by month; please provide details as to the nature of the reason for the referral; please provide details as to the number of times a child has gone missing for an extended period of time (e.g., notification of same to centre management by family/social worker/Gardaí or notification to another professional or agency e.g. Tusla, Gardaí by centre management) since the start of 2019, again by month and when the child returned.
- RefusedReceived —Decided 5 November 2020Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
- A copy of all inspection reports from direct provision or emergency accommodation centres in the period 1 April 2020 to 4 September 2020. - A copy of any guidelines/advices issued to inspectors for carrying out such inspections during Covid-19 pandemic.
- RefusedReceived —Decided 5 November 2020Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
Under the 2014 FOI act I am looking for the following: This correspondence and any response to it: https://www.lobbying.ie/return/62212/law-society-of-ireland
- RefusedReceived —Decided 5 November 2020Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
Access to correspondence between Arthur Cox and John O'Callaghan in relation to Section 32 of the Civil Law and Criminal Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020 (Execution in Counterparts).
- Part-GrantedReceived —Decided 4 November 2020Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
All records relating to the need to have Anti-money Laundering Directive (No 4) implemented in 2015 that has resulted in a €2m fine because of the delay in introducing it. Please include all records relating to the need to have Anti-money Laundering Directive 4 introduced in time and any records that went to the Ministers or Ministers of State at the time.