600. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Education and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 62819/26 of 7 September 2026, the current status of the review of Circular 0032/2017 on the cost of school uniforms referred to in the reply; the date on which that review is expected to conclude; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [65403/26]
601. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Education and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 62835/26 of 7 September 2026, the total value of voluntary contributions collected by schools in the most recent year for which data is available; whether her Department has set any target for reducing compulsory or unavoidable costs to parents; and the reason her Department does not gather data on school level co…
602. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Education and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 62819/26 of 7 September 2026, if her Department will begin to collect data on the total cost of sending a child to school, including voluntary contributions, uniforms, books and digital devices, given that this data is not currently collected; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [65401/26]
603. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Education and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 62819/26 of 7 September 2026, if her Department will begin to collect data on the total cost of sending a child to school, including voluntary contributions, uniforms, books and digital devices, given that this data is not currently collected; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [65400/26]
774. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 62815/26 of 7 September 2026, if his Department will now undertake an assessment of the average cost incurred by families in preparing a child to return to school, measured against the value of the back to school clothing and footwear allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [65399/26]
806. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration in circumstances where the Irish Prison Service has not been established on a statutory basis, the person or body that constituted the 'relevant authority' under the Department of Finance Circular 22/2007 for determining an application by a prison officer for retirement on grounds of ill health since 2019; the authority to make the fin…
834. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if an IPAS inspection of Dolcain House accommodation centre, Monastery Road, Clondalkin, Dublin 22 (report reference IPPSI0073) has been carried out since the most recently published inspection report dated 1 August 2025; if so, the date on which any such inspection was carried; when the resulting report will be published; if not, when…
873. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of deportation orders signed in each year from 2020 to 2025; the number of confirmed departures recorded by the Garda National Immigration Bureau in respect of persons subject to those orders in each of those years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [64816/26]
874. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration further to Parliamentary Question No. 2228 of 28 July 2026, the reason the gap is not recorded on the Corporate Risk Register, given that enforcement of the immigration system is described as a central priority of the Government (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [64815/26]
875. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if his Department has set any target or performance indicator for the proportion of signed deportation orders that are enforced; if not, whether his Department will consider setting one; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [64811/26]
876. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 403 and 404 of 16 July 2026, the details of which the ongoing review comprises in relation to the interaction between the confidentiality provisions and public confidence in the reporting of criminal proceedings, including whether any paper, submission or assessment has been prepared on that speci…
877. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 403 and 404 of 16 July 2026, whether consideration has been given, at either official or ministerial level, to introducing an amendment to section 26 of the International Protection Act 2015 or section 278 of the International Protection Act 2026; to provide for an exception to the prohibition on …
878. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration further to Parliamentary Question No. 315 of 15 July 2026, whether the review is a systematic review of all naturalised citizens convicted of such offences or a case by case process (details supplied); the number of such cases reviewed since 7 April 2025; the number referred for citizenship revocation proceedings in that period; and if…
929. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration further to Parliamentary Question No. 59656/26 of 7 September 2026, the amount of the €125 million allocation to An Garda Síochána for EU Presidency policing and security that has been drawn down or expended to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [65392/26]
930. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration further to Parliamentary Question No. 63165/26 of 7 September 2026, the measures being taken to reduce the average period of 56 to 57 days between the completion of a custodial sentence and the enforcement of a removal or deportation order; the number of persons subject to a valid deportation or removal order who were released from cus…
933. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration further to Parliamentary Question No. 63167/26 of 7 September 2026, the amount reclaimed, or expected to be reclaimed, under the EU Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund in respect of the charter flight operations conducted on grounds of criminality in 2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [65388/26]
963. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration further to Parliamentary Question No. 63286/26 of 7 September 2026, the number of cases since 7 April 2025, in which the revocation of a naturalised citizen's citizenship has been considered; the number in which the person had a criminal conviction; the number involving national security concerns; the number in which a notice of inten…
964. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration further to Parliamentary Question No. 63282/26, the number of persons who acquired Irish citizenship by naturalisation and who have subsequently been convicted of serious criminal offences, including offences involving firearms, terrorism, terrorism-related activity or organised crime, in each of the past ten years and to date in 2026…
1035. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 3021 of 7 September 2026, the number of children placed at each of the set weekly rates published in the most recent tender competition, by multi-occupancy, dual occupancy, single occupancy and each other category in 2024 and in 2025; and the total annual expenditure on single-occupancy private plac…
1036. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 3020 of September 2026, to confirm in a yes or no answer whether profit margin is assessed as a criterion in the award of private residential childcare contracts. [64980/26]
1037. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 3022 of 7 September 2026, if she will require private providers of residential childcare to submit segmented or open-book accounts for State-funded placements as a condition of any future tender, so that the profit earned on public contracts can be verified; and if not, the reason for same. [64978/2…
1038. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 3023 of 7 September 2026, to reconcile the stated intention of the Child and Family Agency to incrementally reduce dependency on private residential care with the increase in the number of privately funded placements from 834 in 2024 to 1,038 in 2025; and the target number of private residential pla…
1043. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether Children First provides specific national guidance on the sex of adults supervising children in circumstances involving changing, showering, toileting or sleeping arrangements; whether it provides guidance where the sex of a supervising adult differs from their gender identity; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [65…
1044. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether organisations working with children are permitted to determine independently the sex or gender of adults considered suitable to supervise children in changing rooms, showers, toilets and sleeping accommodation; whether her Department monitors consistency in such safeguarding arrangements; and if she will make a statement on the …
1045. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether national child safeguarding guidance requires consideration of the sex of adults supervising children in settings involving changing, showering, toileting or sleeping arrangements; whether her Department has provided guidance on how such arrangements should operate where the sex of a supervising adult differs from their gender i…