Matt Carthy

160. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration to outline the plans for increasing the Garda training allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6084/26]

186. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of people issued with a deportation order and the number of persons deported by the State, respectively, in each of the past five years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6082/26]

195. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration in respect of each of the 15 recommendations recommended in the report on the operation of bail in Ireland prepared by Senior Counsel Lorcan Staines, entitled ‘An Assessment of the Efficacy of Bail Laws in Ireland’, whether he accepts the recommendation; the status of work to implement the recommendation; the timeframe envisaged to implement the recommendation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6081/26]

208. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if he will establish a historical investigations unit to allow for independent police investigation into unresolved deaths and incidents of torture or ill treatment as proposed by the Irish Council for Civil Liberties and the Committee on the Administration of Justice; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6083/26]

215. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if he intends to introduce legislation which would ensure that responsibility for the prosecution of offences would be removed from the Gardaí so that all court proceedings would be conducted by legal professionals, as recommended in the report on the operation of bail in Ireland prepared by Senior Counsel Lorcan Staines entitled ‘An Assessment of the Efficacy of Bail Laws in Ireland’; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6080/26]

220. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Taoiseach the number of those under the age of 16 years-of-age in employment; the number of those aged 16 and 17 years-of-age, in each of the past ten years, in tabular form, in the workforce. [5922/26]

221. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Taoiseach the number of those under the age of 18 years-of-age earning the national minimum wage; the number of those aged 18 years-of-age earning the national minimum wage; the number of those agreed 19 earning the national minimum wage, for each of the past ten years, in tabular form. [5923/26]

232. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the current status of the proposed EU-Australia trade agreement; whether it is envisaged that a final agreement will include visa free travel via a labour mobility scheme; the provisions that will be included in such a labour mobility scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5900/26]

361. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Transport the engagements he has had with the Stormont executive in relation to the A5 road scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6543/26]

451. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Education and Youth the procedures involved in the calculation of the ancillary services grant for primary schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5442/26]

452. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Education and Youth if there are plans to review the ancillary services grant for schools scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5443/26]

453. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she is aware of the case of a school (details supplied) that has received a total of €25 through the ancillary services grant over the past two years; if she will investigate how such an inadequate amount could be awarded; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5444/26]

525. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Education and Youth the current procedures used in terms of enrolment figures to allocate capitation grant funding to primary schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6072/26]

526. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Education and Youth if there is a contingency fund regarding capitation grants for schools whose enrolment increases by more than 20% within a single academic year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6073/26]

527. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she plans to amend the current procedures of basing a schools capitation grant on the school's enrolment figures from 18 months previously; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6074/26]

528. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Education and Youth if procedures are in place to expedite the transition for a school (details supplied) of its capitation grant from its current allocation based on its 2024 enrolment figures of 62 to the school's September 2025 enrolment figures of 103; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6075/26]

574. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Education and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 628 of 4 November 2025, if the new DEIS plan has been published; and if she will review the decision to exclude a school (details supplied) from the DEIS Band 1 programme; to provide clear details of the process that resulted in the school’s exclusion; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6537/26]

713. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if he will outline the legislation which underpins Ireland’s visa waiver programmes;; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5439/26]

714. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the instances in which a visa order has been issued on the basis of national security or public order in the years 2010 to date; the basis upon which such an order was made, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5440/26]

772. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the percentage of English language schools which submitted a weekly report on attendance at their school to his Department in each month in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6538/26]

773. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of those who have had their student visas revoked as a result of information provided to his Department by the language school which they were registered to attend in each month in 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6539/26]

774. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of actions that have been taken against English language schools for failure to submit information on attendance to his Department in each month in 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6540/26]

775. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if he is aware of any incidents where English language schools have provided letters of attendance to students that do not accurately reflect their attendance in exchange for a fee; the action which has been taken in relation to any such incident; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6541/26]

833. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the respite centres for children with disabilities which have behavioural therapists within its staff allocation and those that do not, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5464/26]

834. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of occasions in each month of 2025 that a service (details supplied) in Cavan contacted a parent/guardian requesting that a resident be collected early, by the reasons provided; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5465/26]