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16-531: IPAS is responsible for coordinating the provision of services to both asylum seekers and refugees, coordinating the implementation of integration policy for all refugees and persons granted leave to remain in the Republic of Ireland and responding to crisis situations which may result in large numbers of refugees arriving in the country. The Directorate for Asylum Support Services (DASS) was established in November 1999 as

32-586: A statutory instrument is a form of delegated legislation . Statutory instruments are the principal form of delegated or secondary legislation in the United Kingdom . Statutory instruments (or 'regulations') are primarily governed by the Statutory Instruments Act 1946 , which replaced the system of statutory rules and orders governed by the Rules Publication Act 1893 . Following

48-608: A full debate on contentious issues. Devolved administrations also have the power to make Statutory Instruments within the heads of powers that are devolved to them. Wales Statutory Instruments made by the Welsh Government are published as a subseries of the UK statutory instrument series—for example, the Environment (Wales) Act 2016 (Commencement No. 3) Order 2017 is numbered 2017   No.   714   (W.   171) , meaning it

64-546: A subseries of the UK series—instead, they are published separately by the Queen's Printer for Scotland . However, any UK statutory instruments dealing with reserved matters and applying only to Scotland are published in a UK subseries, such as the Insolvent Companies (Reports on Conduct of Directors) (Scotland) Rules 2016 numbered 2016   No.   185   (S.   1) . In Northern Ireland , delegated legislation

80-594: A unit of the Department of Justice . It introduced a system of direct provision for asylum applicants, providing residential accommodation and ancillary services to asylum seekers while they await the outcome of their applications for asylum. To meet this requirement, various private companies provide these services at several accommodation centres on the country, the largest being at Mosney . The system has been criticised by human rights organisations as illegal, inhuman and degrading. The Reception and Integration Agency (RIA)

96-604: Is a department of the Government of Ireland . It is led by the Minister for Justice . The department's mission is to maintain and enhance community security and to promote a fairer society in Ireland . The mission of the Department of Justice is to maintain and enhance community security through the development of a range of policies and high-quality services which underpin: In July 2014

112-506: Is organised into statutory rules , rather than statutory instruments. In the Republic of Ireland the term "statutory instrument" is given a much broader meaning than under the UK legislation. Under the Statutory Instruments Act 1947 a statutory instrument is defined as being "an order, regulation, rule, scheme or bye-law made in exercise of a power conferred by statute". However, only certain statutory instrument are published and numbered by

128-642: Is the 714th statutory instrument in the UK series and 171st in the Wales subseries. In Scotland , statutory instruments made by the Scottish Government were governed by the Statutory Instruments Act 1946 following devolution until the Interpretation and Legislative Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 came into force. Unlike Wales Statutory Instruments, Scottish Statutory Instruments are not published as

144-458: The 2016 EU membership referendum and the subsequent publication of the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill , there has been concern that its powers enabling ministers to issue statutory instruments under the bill may enable the government to bypass Parliament. Although this has been criticised by some as being undemocratic, draft regulations must be "laid before" Parliament, which may always demand

160-733: The Stationery Office , this being mostly where the statute enabling the enactment of delegated legislation required that any such legislation be laid before the Houses of the Oireachtas . Two close equivalents of similar operation are Similarly to the United Kingdom, national and state/provincial governments in Australia and Canada also call their delegated legislation statutory instruments. Canada uses statutory instruments for proclamations by

176-553: The state agencies and other bodies affiliated to the department in some way are: No state-sponsored bodies report to the department. In the revolutionary period, the office was known as the Ministry of Home Affairs. The Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924 , passed soon after the establishment of the Irish Free State in 1922, provided it with a statutory basis and renamed it as the Department of Justice. This act provided it with:

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192-765: The Habitual Residency Condition attaching to Social Assistance Payments. In December 2019, RIA was divided into the International Protection Accommodation Services (IPAS) and the International Protection Procurement Services (IPPS). In October 2020, IPAS and IPPS were transferred from the Department of Justice to the restructured Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth. Department of Justice (Ireland) The Department of Justice ( Irish : An Roinn Dlí agus Cirt )

208-574: The administration and business generally of public services in connection with law, justice, public order and police, and all powers, duties and functions connected with the same (except such powers, duties and functions as are by law reserved to the Executive Council and such powers, duties and functions as are by the Constitution or by law excepted from the authority of the Executive Council or of an Executive Minister), and shall include in particular

224-583: The business, powers, duties and functions of the branches and officers of the public service specified in the second part of the schedule to this Act, and of which Department the head shall be, and shall be styled, an t-Aire Dlí agus Cirt or (in English) the Minister for Justice. The schedule assigned it with the following bodies: The name and functions of the department have changed by means of statutory instruments . Statutory instrument In many countries,

240-450: The department embarked on a comprehensive programme of change, including the recruitment of a new secretary-general following an independent review. The official headquarters and ministerial offices of the department are on St Stephen's Green , Dublin. The department's main areas of responsibility include: The department has executive agencies , which legally are integral parts of the department but which are managed separately: Among

256-666: Was established by the Irish government on 2 April 2001 as a merger of the DASS and the Refugee Agency (which was part of the Department of Foreign Affairs ). After a government decision of 2 March 2004, RIA was assigned responsibility for supporting the repatriation, on an ongoing basis for the Department of Social Protection , of nationals of the ten new EU member states ( Cyprus , Czech Republic , Estonia , Hungary , Latvia , Lithuania , Malta , Poland , Slovakia , Slovenia ) who might fail

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