# department-of-justice - Friday 30 April, 2021
# Student Visas
# Student Visas
The Department of Justice has said that they will take a pragmatic approach to the situation.
# department-of-justice - Friday 9 April, 2021
# Fáilte
# Fáilte
Citizenship ceremonies have been temporarily replaced by signing a declaration of loyalty.
# department-of-justice - Saturday 3 April, 2021
# Covid-19 Pandemic
# Covid-19 Pandemic
Doctors have written to all TDs and senators asking for their citizenship to be fasttracked as a gesture for their work during the pandemic.
# department-of-justice - Tuesday 23 March, 2021
# Naturalisation
# Naturalisation
Currently, children born in Ireland whose parents are not Irish citizens – and haven’t met residency requirements – must live here for at least five years before they can gain citizenship.
# department-of-justice - Monday 15 March, 2021
# Asylum
# Asylum
Figures from the Department of Justice show 601 people were deported between 2018 and 2020.
# department-of-justice - Saturday 13 March, 2021
# Application Backlog
# Application Backlog
The Department said it can’t fast-track the healthcare workers’ applications specifically, as it doesn’t segregate applicants by their work.
# department-of-justice - Tuesday 16 February, 2021
# Stardust Fire
# Stardust Fire
Opposition parties have urged the Taoiseach and the government to prevent any further delay right after the 40th anniversary of the disaster.
# department-of-justice - Thursday 28 January, 2021
# Protection
# Protection
Asylum seekers will need to wait six months instead of nine before they can apply for permission to work in Ireland.
# Travel
# Travel
The Department of Justice said the breaches were a mixture of people failing to provide a test result and others providing a test result from beyond the 72-hour limit.
# department-of-justice - Saturday 10 October, 2020
# Squeezed Students
# Squeezed Students
There has been no clarity from immigration authorities about when rules will be enforced.
# department-of-justice - Thursday 13 August, 2020
# Frozen Assets
# Frozen Assets
The government said the funds were frozen in a Dublin-based bank account.
# department-of-justice - Tuesday 11 August, 2020
# Deportation
# Deportation
The couple live in a direct provision centre in Athlone.
# department-of-justice - Saturday 25 July, 2020
# INspections
# INspections
No inspections of centres have taken place since late March due to Covid-19.
# department-of-justice - Friday 3 July, 2020
# Direct Provision
# Direct Provision
The CSO is aiming to collect data on Direct Provision deaths but the Justice Department says it has no role in collecting this.
# department-of-justice - Friday 19 June, 2020
# Department Of Justice
# Department Of Justice
“IPAS is more concerned about protecting their reputation and the reputations of private contractors,” said Nasc CEO Fiona Finn.
# department-of-justice - Wednesday 15 April, 2020
# Covid-19
# Covid-19
The adverts depict the reality for victims of domestic abuse when their home is no longer a safe place.
# department-of-justice - Monday 9 March, 2020
# Deportation
# Deportation
In 2019, 293 people were deported from Ireland.
# Retention Crisis
# Retention Crisis
One doctor described the stress of applying for citizenship and work permits, and the toll it has taken on his personal life.
# department-of-justice - Wednesday 19 February, 2020
# Asylum Seekers
# Asylum Seekers
“It’s a fait accompli, I would prefer if there had been more consultation,” one councillor said.
# department-of-justice - Tuesday 18 February, 2020
# Tullamore
# Tullamore
The premises was offered to the Department via the recent public procurement competition for the Midlands region.
# department-of-justice - Tuesday 11 February, 2020
# Department Of Justice
# Department Of Justice
Internal records show how controversy started to build from 2 January – three days before the Clare mayor announced his boycott.
# department-of-justice - Friday 31 January, 2020
# Visa
# Visa
There has been two confirmed cases of the novel virus in the UK.
# department-of-justice - Friday 24 January, 2020
# Staffing Levels
# Staffing Levels
The number of gardaí in two-thirds of stations has remained static or fallen since the lifting of the recruitment embargo in 2014.
# department-of-justice - Monday 13 January, 2020
# Civil Partnership Bells
# Civil Partnership Bells
The government said that there are no plans to change the law in Ireland.
# department-of-justice - Monday 2 December, 2019
# Garda Questioning
# Garda Questioning
How long can she be questioned by gardaí, and is she likely to face charges?
# Hate Speech
# Hate Speech
The report was written as an alternative to previous hate crime reports submitted to the United Nations.
# department-of-justice - Friday 22 November, 2019
# Direct Provision
# Direct Provision
50% more people have applied this year and many end up in emergency accommodation according to the Department of Justice .
# department-of-justice - Wednesday 13 November, 2019
# Irish Nightlife
# Irish Nightlife
Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan is “very keen” to open up a consultation with stakeholders.
# department-of-justice - Sunday 3 November, 2019
# Steven Anderson
# Steven Anderson
Steven Anderson was the first person to be issued with an exclusion order preventing him from entering Ireland.
# department-of-justice - Thursday 24 October, 2019
# Racism
# Racism
The Department of Justice is currently finalising research on legislative approaches to tackling hate crime in other countries.
# department-of-justice - Sunday 20 October, 2019
# Porn Block
# Porn Block
Two departments claimed they weren’t responsible for monitoring the issue.
# department-of-justice - Thursday 29 August, 2019
# Direct Provision
# Direct Provision
The Department of Justice & Equality has struggled to open new centres since 2018.
# department-of-justice - Friday 9 August, 2019
# Free Legal Aid
# Free Legal Aid
Tipperary County Council passed a motion in March requesting that the Minister for Justice consider it.
# department-of-justice - Sunday 4 August, 2019
# Direct Provision
# Direct Provision
Residents in Direct Provision centres have claimed the practice is commonplace.
# department-of-justice - Friday 19 July, 2019
# Islamic State
# Islamic State
The Dundalk woman and her young daughter are currently in Syria.
# department-of-justice - Tuesday 18 June, 2019
# Kilmainham Road
# Kilmainham Road
The site at 51A Old Kilmainham Road, Dublin 8, has been vacant for a number of years.
# department-of-justice - Thursday 13 June, 2019
# SYLVA TUKULA
# SYLVA TUKULA
Sylva Tukula died at the Great Western House Direct Provision centre in Galway in August 2018.
# department-of-justice - Thursday 6 June, 2019
# SYLVA TUKULA
# SYLVA TUKULA
Sylva Tukula died in Galway in August 2018.
# department-of-justice - Sunday 26 May, 2019
# Noteworthy
# Noteworthy
Officials said changes to allow residents of asylum centres to work had created “most generous” system in EU.
# department-of-justice - Monday 6 May, 2019
# Rooskey
# Rooskey
The proposal was affected by a number of legal and planning issues, as well as suspected arson attacks.
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