1505. Deputy Ryan O'Meara asked the Minister for Justice the total number of vacant teaching and specialist unit posts in Templemore Garda College; to provide a breakdown of the number of vacancies by area/unit, the month and year each aforementioned vacancy arose, whether there is an active panel by which each and any such vacancy could be filled, the establishment and expiry date for said panels; and if he will mak…
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1506. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Justice further to Parliamentary Question No. 999 of 22 January 2025, if he is now in a position to provide data requested from the Garda Commissioner by his predecessor; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18624/25]
1507. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Minister for Justice if his Department has engaged with representatives of prison officers since January 2024 on the issues with the fast accrual (uniformed) single public service pension scheme for uniformed services recruited after 2013; the dates of those engagements; if his Department has taken any action as a result of these engagements; and if he will make a statement on the…
1508. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Minister for Justice if his Department has engaged with representatives of an Garda Síochána since January 2024 on the issues with the fast accrual (uniformed) single public service pension scheme for uniformed services recruited after 2013; if he will provide the dates of those engagements; if his Department have taken any action as a result of these engagements; and if he will m…
1509. Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice asked the Minister for Justice the number of asylum applications in system under appeal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18647/25]
1510. Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice asked the Minister for Justice the number of asylum applications in courts being appealed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18648/25]
1511. Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice asked the Minister for Justice the cost of legal aid regarding asylum applications in courts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18649/25]
1512. Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice asked the Minister for Justice the current timeframe for initial application to final appeal from a safe country, and an unsafe country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18650/25]
1513. Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice asked the Minister for Justice the longest timeframe a person seeking asylum and started with application and is in courts appealing in the current cases that have not been finished; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18651/25]
1514. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Justice if publicans are permitted to serve adults alcohol-free branded beer where they intend the beer to be for consumption by children who are accompanying the adults in the publicans’ licensed premises during normal regulated licensing hours; and if so, whether he will consider a change in the law to ensure that this is no longer permitted and gives clarity to licens…
1515. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Justice for a breakdown of the total number of Gardaí serving, by rank in each county based on location as of 7 April 205, in tabular form. [18660/25]
1516. Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Justice to make a statement in relation to the Review of Part 4 of the Sexual Offences Act 2017, and the acknowledgement in that review that there has been no impact on demand for the purchasing of sex since the enactment of the legislation, even though that was the key rationale for its implementation, and in that context, and the lack of any empirical evaluatio…
1517. Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Justice to make a statement regarding the status of the draft report on the review of Part 4 of the Sexual Offences Act 2017, submitted by the original independent expert commissioned to undertake that review in July 2020, with particular reference to where that report can be accessed, the reason it was not published, and the relationship between its conclusions …
1518. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Justice if he will provide this Deputy with a copy of the briefing paper given to Minister Humphreys when she temporarily became Minister for Justice in March 2021. [18739/25]
1519. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Justice if he will provide this Deputy with a copy of the briefing paper given to Minister Harris when he temporarily became Minister for Justice in December 2022. [18740/25]
1520. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Justice when section 100 and in particular the related subsection 98.2 of the Gambling Act 2024 will be commenced, given that these sections relate to children being permitted into greyhound stadiums where gambling takes place and requires reasons to be given by the venues as to their suitability for young children; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1…
1521. Deputy Naoise Ó Cearúil asked the Minister for Justice the status regarding a visa application (details supplied); the expected timeline for when this application will be finalised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18780/25]
1522. Deputy Denise Mitchell asked the Minister for Justice the status of the review into his Department's family reunification policy; when he will publish a revised policy in this area; if he will list the groups and individuals whom he has consulted on this policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18796/25]
1523. Deputy Denise Mitchell asked the Minister for Justice if any additional resources have been committed to visa processing over the past twelve months; the plans for further resources to be allocated to visa processing; when we can expect to see improvements in the timelines for processing applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18797/25]
1524. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Justice if he can guarantee that no journalists or Members of the Houses of the Oireachtas are in any way being targeted by or have ever been targeted by the use of modern spying technology or communications interception technology by any arm of the State. [18799/25]
1525. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Justice when he last discussed the use of modern spying technology or communications interception technology and how it is being used in the State with the Garda Commissioner. [18800/25]
1526. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Justice the number of protected disclosures made internally in An Garda Síochána since the commencement of the Protected Disclosures Act 2014; and of that number, how many were upheld in favour of the confidential reporter in terms of the alleged wrongdoing being disclosed, by year, in tabular form. [18801/25]
1527. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Justice the number of people who have been granted Irish citizenship in each of the years since 2020 who have previously been subject to a deportation order, that was revoked or not executed, in tabular form. [18807/25]
1528. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Justice the Garda divisions currently without a crime prevention officer (CPO); the length of time each of those divisions have been without a CPO, in tabular form. [18845/25]
1529. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Justice the number of full-time solicitors employed by Athlone law centre as of 2 April 2025, in tabular form. [18846/25]