251. Deputy Pat Buckley asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will confirm when a facility (details supplied) will be taken in charge by his Department. [25068/25]
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252. Deputy Michael Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if consideration will be given to eliminating ceilings for the first homes scheme on a county basis, and introducing one tier for Dublin and Cork and a second tier for all other counties (details supplied). [25075/25]
253. Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Social Protection if he will outline the number of agencies or quangos established by his Department in each of the past ten years and the cost to the State of funding each one. [24941/25]
254. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Social Protection if he is aware of a person (details supplied) who has been waiting eight months for a decision to be made in respect of his appeal of a rejected application for the working family payment; if he is aware of the undue hardship and distress this causes the appellant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24990/25]
255. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of working family payment applications received; the number of working family payment applications awarded; the number of working family payment applications withdrawn; the average time in weeks from date of application submission to award in the first instance; the number of working family payment applications that were carried over to t…
256. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of same-sex marriages registered in the State in each of the years since 2015, by year, in tabular form. [25024/25]
257. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of marriages registered in the State in each of the years since 2015, by year, in tabular form. [25025/25]
258. Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Social Protection to provide an update on the report commissioned by his Department on extending the fuel allowance to recipients of the working family payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25055/25]
259. Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Social Protection if he has considered implementing an individual means-test for social welfare payments rather than a household means-test, to ensure that people are only assessed on their own income and not that of their household’s; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25056/25]
260. Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated cost of indexing the child support payment to 45% of the qualified adult payment for children under 12 and 55% for children over 12 years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25057/25]
261. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 292 of 10 April 2025 and 1418 of 29 April 2025, without mentioning or outlining “child benefit”, whether all parents or guardians of newly adopted children under 18 are eligible for the new baby grant, regardless of the child’s age on date of placement; if there is a cut-off age whereby adopted children are de…
262. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Social Protection to publish internal documents specifying particular protocols used by deciding officers to award applications for social welfare income payment beyond just the publicly available operational guidelines; in particular if he could publish the ‘homeless protocol’; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25065/25]
263. Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Justice if the waiting times for long-stay visa applications under the "join family" category are influenced by the permit type of the person they are joining in Ireland; the current waiting times for families of those on critical skills employment permits and those on general employment permits; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25070/25]
264. Deputy Edward Timmins asked the Minister for Justice the Garda numbers, by station, in County Wicklow for 2025 compared with 2020, in tabular form. [24900/25]
265. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Justice if there is a policy in place within the Irish Prison Service to notify victims of serious crime when the person convicted has died in prison; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24901/25]
266. Deputy Ryan O'Meara asked the Minister for Justice if service training days can be considered towards days' service with respect to an individual’s pension eligibility (details supplied); if recourse is available to such an individual who falls short of the five years of service requirement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24922/25]
267. Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Justice if he will outline the number of agencies or quangos established by his Department in each of the past ten years and the cost to the State of funding each one. [24938/25]
268. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice if his Department has carried out any research as to the minimum and maximum potential pensions cost to existing gardaí who apply for the job of Garda Commissioner. [24976/25]
269. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice if there will be any change to the pension penalty being applied to gardaí who apply for the newly advertised position of Garda Commissioner. [24977/25]
270. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice if he has analysed any possible threat to national security of employing a candidate from outside the Garda force as the new Garda Commissioner. [24978/25]
271. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Justice the reason only one family member of children from Gaza being brought to Ireland for medical treatment is being given a stamp 4 visa; if he will consider extending stamp 4s to other family members; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24999/25]
272. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Justice to expedite a joint family, type D visa application that was originally submitted in March 2024 in respect of a Kerry constituent (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25005/25]
273. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Justice to urgently expedite the processing of a family spouse unification visa application for a person (details supplied); the reason this application is taking so long to be processed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25006/25]
274. Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Justice if he will confirm that three applications for join family visas (details supplied) are registered with INIS; his plans to provide a more efficient process and to give accurate real-time detail on the stage the application is at; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25010/25]
275. Deputy Tom Brabazon asked the Minister for Justice the average duration of suspension for members of An Garda Síochána. [25016/25]