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18/01/2019

Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2018-0142

Requester Type • The amount that the Department of Justice and Equality spent on wages and costs towards accommodation for Department of Justice staff that are based outside Ireland for work related business e.g. Irish Embassies etc. in the years 2016, 2017 and to-date in 2018 in tabular form. • The grade gender and location of each Department of Justice and Equality staff member that are based outside of Ireland for work related business in the years 2016, 2017 and to-date in 2018 in tabular form.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
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18/01/2019

Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2018-0144

Requester Type The number of requests that the Department of Justice and Equality have received for either Forensic Science Ireland or the Office of State Pathologist for permission to recruit additional staff for each year since 2015. Of the requests received from each agency the number that were approved, pending or refused. To be of further assistance to you I am looking for the number of requests only.

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18/01/2019

Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2018-0160

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18/01/2019

Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2018-0161

Requester Type A copy of all submissions made as part of the public consultation on proposed seasonal clock changes.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
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18/01/2019

Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2018-0165

Requester Type Copies of all correspondence between the Private Security Authority and the Department of Justice during 2018 regarding security guards that accompany Sheriffs during repossessions / evictions.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
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21/01/2019

Request Reference 156/583/2018

Requester Type Copies of all records held relating to a proposal by the Minister that photographing / filming Gardaí while on duty would be made illegal. This request to cover period 1 September 2018 to 15 October 2018.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
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22/01/2019

Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2018-0166

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Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
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25/01/2019

Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2019-0016

Requester Type Access to documents detailing the number of persons who have submitted requests for Declarations for Alienage under Section 21 of the Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act, 1956 as amended 1986, for the year 2008 to 2018 inclusive. If possible I would request details of the citizenship of the applicant in each case.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
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29/01/2019

Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2018-0169

Requester Type A breakdown of expenditure spent on publicity (i.e. PR, advertising, marketing, social media etc.) for 2018 and 2017. This breakdown should include how much, to whom the money was given and for what purpose.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
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01/02/2019

Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2018-0128

Requester Type • The number of valid applications for Irish citizenship by naturalisation (form 8 only) received from 24 April 2017 to 5 May 2017 and the status of those applications, as at 16 November 2018, under the following headings; a. Application withdrawn or deemed withdrawn, b. Awaiting further information or documentation from applicant, c. Currently being processed,

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Requester Type d. Processed and submitted to Minister for decision, e. Decision made (and applicant notified in writing) to grant citizenship, f. Decision made (and applicant notified in writing) to refuse citizenship, g. Decision made to grant citizenship, notified to applicant and awaiting payment of fee for Certificate of Naturalisation, h. Fee for Certificate of Naturalisation received and applicant awaiting ceremony date, i. Certificate of Naturalisation issued and citizenship conferred • The number of valid applications for Irish citizenship by naturalisation (form 8 only) received from 1 January 2018 to 31 March 2018 and, the number of those applications in respect of which a decision, as at 16 November 2018, has been made by the Minister and notified to the applicant (irrespective of whether or not those applications have been submitted by INIS to the Minister for consideration). • The average number of staff employed by the Department during 2018, who are engaged in receiving, processing, deciding and, performing any other duties pertaining to; applications for citizenship by naturalisation. • The gross cost (actual or estimated) to the Department of employing those staff from 1 January 2018 to 16 November 2018. • The expenditure (actual or estimated), excluding staff salaries and benefits, incurred by the Department in respect of the provision of services directly related to applications for citizenship by naturalisation including, but not limited to, office rental, utilities, postage and stationary and third party services, from 1 January 2018 to 16 November 2018. • The gross income received from 1 January 2018 to 16 November 2018 by the Department in respect of applications, and the granting thereof, for citizenship by naturalisation.

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01/02/2019

Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2019-0009

Requester Type Could you send us a copy of the submission referenced in this entry on the lobbying register? https://www.lobbying.ie/return/10398/millett--matthews

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01/02/2019

Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2019-0053

Requester Type All emails, internal notes and minutes of meetings with named person about his proposals for football in Ireland.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
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01/02/2019

Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2019-0066

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01/02/2019

Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2019-0070

Requester Type Access to any minutes / memos / correspondence relating to the meeting between named person from named company and Ben Ryan during 2018.

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01/02/2019

Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2019-0074

Requester Type All records associated with this entry in the lobbying database: https://www.lobbying.ie/return/37179/google-ireland-limited

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04/02/2019

Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2018-0135

Requester Type Copies of any briefings/submissions/recommendations/memos or other such review or explanatory documents prepared within the Department of Justice for the Minister on the citizenship referendum of 2004.

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04/02/2019

Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2019-0001

Requester Type How much was spent by the Department in 2017 and 2018 on bottled water.

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04/02/2019

Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2019-0008

Requester Type All records associated with this entry in the lobbying database: https://www.lobbying.ie/return/34258/chartered-institute-of-personnel-and- development---ireland

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Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2019-0014

Requester Type • The overall amount received by Gardaí in retirement lump sum payments in 2018 and 2017. • The top 20 amounts received by Gardaí in 2018 in retirement lump sums and the county in which they operated and their rank. • How many Gardaí last year received lump sum payments. • The rank of those who retired last year.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
04/02/2019

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Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2019-0007

Requester Type The cost of commercial accommodation for International Protection applicants in hotel or bed and breakfast rooms from 1 May to end of December. (This would be the cost of putting asylum seekers up in hotels or B&Bs due to the lack of capacity in RIA centres)

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
06/02/2019

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Request Reference 156/637/2018

Requester Type • Records relating to any research conducted or advice generated within the Department, or generated for the Minister or Department officials, on rates of asylum claims being made in the Republic. • Records with any opinion, information or research – generated in the last 12 months - on why the number of asylum claims in the Republic has been increasing. • Records detailing projections for the rate of claims that may be expected in the months and years ahead and/or reasons for same.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
08/02/2019

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Request Reference 156/663/2018

Requester Type • Internal records relating to the operation of the Immigrant Investor Programme, for example meeting minutes, notes, memos, briefings, correspondence. • Records relating to a named company. This relates to records for the year 2018.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
08/02/2019

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Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2019-0015

Requester Type • Access to documents detailing the number of cases of revocation of citizenship under section 19 of the Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act, 1956 for the years 2008-2018 (if such revocations have occurred); reason for revocation and details of the sub-sections of the legislation

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
08/02/2019

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Requester Type under which the revocation has taken place; and the first nationality of the nationalised citizen. • Access to or copies of any correspondence received by your Department in relation to the revocation of citizenship of a naturalised Irish citizen for the same period; and any internal records regarding that correspondence. • Access to any internal reviews or other examinations for the process of revocation laid out under section 19 of the legislation (should any such material exist) for the period January 2016 to the current date.

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Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2019-0056

Requester Type Copies of all records held relating to the overpayment of pensions to retired members of An Garda Síochána in the period 1 January 2018 to 21 January 2019.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
08/02/2019

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Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2019-0060

Requester Type Copies of correspondence to/from Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan and the following on the topic of Brexit: - Politicians - An Garda Síochána - Garda representative organisations - The judiciary - The Courts Service - Revenue

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
08/02/2019

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Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2019-0027

Requester Type • Information relating to the location of a Direct Provision / Refugee / Asylum Seekers Centre at the Shannon Key West Hotel in Rooskey. • The general scope of the Provision of the centre including: approx. numbers expected at the centre; age profile of residents; how long the centre is expected to be operational; budget/ costs for the centre for its life span. • Impact studies carried out in relation to the centre's impact local services: Education provision; Impact on local housing including housing prices; Impact on access to health services including mental health;

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
11/02/2019

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Requester Type impact on policing and local security; impact on transportation. If there are no formal impact studies available, I request that a statement in that respect is forwarded to that effect. • Provisions for the staffing of the centre; terms and conditions for the staff and the workforce plan in respect of such. • Details on services and supports which will be put in place for the residents of the centre and details on the funding for these additional services. • Details of the formal procurement for any 3rd party goods or services provided for the centre, including details of the procurement for any sub-contracted operators.

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Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2019-0062

Requester Type Details of all payments made under the criminal legal aid scheme during 2018 relating to proceedings before the district court in Limerick (Limerick city, Kilmallock and Newcastle West) during 2018.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
14/02/2019

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Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2018-0118

Requester Type Copies of all correspondence between Department of Justice and/or the Reception and Integration Agency and RTE and the production company involved, in relation to the 'Taken Down' series screened on RTE in late 2018 - this is not to be limited to correspondence in relation to the production prior to the screening of the first episode, but to include any correspondence that took place after the screening of the first episode.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
19/02/2019

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Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2018-0150

Requester Type Records (minutes, notes, presentations and follow-up correspondence) of these meetings: • https://www.lobbying.ie/return/33390/chartered-institute-of- personnel-and-development---ireland • https://www.lobbying.ie/return/32885/ibec • https://www.lobbying.ie/return/26194/ibec • https://www.lobbying.ie/return/22097/ibec I am also requesting these letters/emails:

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
19/02/2019

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Requester Type • https://www.lobbying.ie/return/15807/financial-services-union • https://www.lobbying.ie/return/26195/ibec

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Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2019-0091

Requester Type A record of all correspondence, briefing documents, draft briefing documents, memos meeting notes and other records associated with the following lobbying activity and meetings: https://www.lobbying.ie/return/37179/google-ireland-limited.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
19/02/2019

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Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2019-0100

Requester Type • All internal departmental correspondence - including emails, letters, briefings, reports and memos dated between August 2018 and February 2019 - relating to the death of a named person. • A list of the number of asylum seekers who have died between 2003 and 2019 while being provided with accommodation by RIA in Direct Provision Centre - this record should include the year, location and number of deaths.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
19/02/2019

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Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2019-0078

Requester Type • Correspondence (sent and received, including full attachments) between the Department and the Policing Authority, in respect of an An Garda Síochána review into youth crime, between 1 January and 28 January 2019. • Correspondence (sent and received, including full attachments) between the Department and the Policing Authority, in respect of an An Garda Síochána review into adult crime, on foot of the review into youth crime, between 1 January and 28 January 2019.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
21/02/2019

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Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2019-0075

Requester Type Copies of the report into the Sergeant Maurice McCabe Inquiry.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
22/02/2019

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Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2019-0089

Requester Type All records, notes, memos in relation to the planning of the appointment of a prison ombudsman.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
25/02/2019

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Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2019-0103

Requester Type A list of all criminal legal-aid payments made to solicitors/barristers (by name) in each of Carrick-on-Shannon, Longford and Roscommon district and circuit courts in (a) 2016, (b) 2017 and (c) 2018. I would like the payments broken down by year and the name of each solicitor/barrister.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
25/02/2019

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Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2019-0113

Requester Type Copies of communications between Minister of State Finian McGrath and the Taoiseach and/or other Ministers in relation to a planned visit by Minister McGrath to Cuba this year.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
25/02/2019

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Request Reference 156/586/2018

Requester Type All of the correspondence held by the Department of Justice from the last year relating to the possibility of a second SAVI report.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
26/02/2019

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Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2019-0138

Requester Type • The amount in monetary terms of free legal aid accumulated at Longford District and Circuit Courts between February 2016 and February 2019. • The amount in monetary terms of legal fees paid to prosecution counsels for the State at Longford Circuit Court between same time period.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
01/03/2019

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Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2019-0076

Requester Type All internal Reception and Integration Agency correspondence relating to the provision of emergency accommodation for those seeking international protection in Ireland in the Cavan-Monaghan region dated between 1 August 2018 and 25 January 2019.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
01/03/2019

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Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2019-0050

Requester Type Records, to include minutes of internal meetings, memos for the Minister or senior officials, concerning reforms to citizenship laws for the years 2016-2019.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
04/03/2019

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Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2019-0097

Requester Type A breakdown of how the €950 certification fee for Irish citizenship through naturalisation is spent. The records showing how the Department of Justice and Equality / deciding

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
05/03/2019

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Requester Type government body came to the decision to charge a €950 certification fee for Irish citizenship through naturalisation.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
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Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2018-0148

Requester Type Copies of all internal audit reports carried out by or for the Department since 1 June 2018 to 6 December 2018.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
06/03/2019

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Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2019-0121

Requester Type A database/spreadsheet/list containing the following data: • The number of employees of the Department sacked in 2016, 2017, 2018. • The reason for the dismissal of each of the above employees. • The number of employees of the Department suspended in 2016, 2017, 2018. • The reason for the suspension of each of the above employees. • The number of complaints of bullying received by the Department in 2016, 2017, 2018. • The number of complaints of sexual harassment received by the Department in 2016, 2017, 2018.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
06/03/2019

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Request Reference DOJ-FOI-2019-0108

Requester Type The community groups who have been approved funding for the community based CCTV by the Department of Justice and Equality.

Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
07/03/2019

FOI Request Files