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Seamus Healy Written 17 Sep 2025 · to Justice
852. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number and rank of Gardaí stationed on Clonmel Garda Station at 1 July 2025 and 1 September 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47978/25]
Emer Currie Written 17 Sep 2025 · to Justice
853. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of standard fast/rapid and high-power charging points in each Garda station in the country, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47982/25]
Ken O'Flynn Written 17 Sep 2025 · to Justice
854. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if he is satisfied that sufficient coordination exists between Gardaí and Tusla in cases of children known to the agency who go missing. [47989/25]
Ken O'Flynn Written 17 Sep 2025 · to Justice
855. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if any Garda-Tusla joint protocols are in place for missing children cases, and if these protocols were activated in the Donabate case. [47990/25]
Eoin Ó Broin Written 17 Sep 2025 · to Justice
856. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the criteria for requesting expedited processing of visa applications; and if pregnancy is considered in such cases. [47996/25]
Eoin Ó Broin Written 17 Sep 2025 · to Justice
857. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the current processing times for each visa type submitted through an office (details supplied); if he is aware of delays to applications from this office; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47997/25]
Peadar Tóibín Written 17 Sep 2025 · to Justice
858. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of IPAS centres that have no fire doors and no fire alarms. [48016/25]
Seamus Healy Written 17 Sep 2025 · to Justice
859. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number and rank of community Gardaí at Clonmel Garda station, County Tipperary as of 1 July 2025 and 1 September 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48017/25]
Michael Cahill Written 17 Sep 2025 · to Justice
860. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration to expedite an Irish citizenship application (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48021/25]
Michael Cahill Written 17 Sep 2025 · to Justice
861. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration to expedite the processing of visa applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48027/25]
Matt Carthy Written 17 Sep 2025 · to Justice
862. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of children who were referred by An Garda Síochána to Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, in each year between 2014 and 2024, in tabular form. [48066/25]
Malcolm Byrne Written 17 Sep 2025 · to Justice
863. Deputy Malcolm Byrne asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if it is mandatory that when an individual is brought to a Garda station for questioning that they are entitled to be presented with a list of solicitors that they may choose to represent them; if there are plans to introduce a duty list system of solicitors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48104/25]
Malcolm Byrne Written 17 Sep 2025 · to Justice
864. Deputy Malcolm Byrne asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration to provide an update on the dispute concerning criminal barrister fees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48105/25]
Ken O'Flynn Written 17 Sep 2025 · to Justice
865. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration further to the Irish Prison Service Annual Report 2024, noting 213 prisoners sleeping on cell floors representing a 150–156% annual increase, the daily average population versus design capacity in 2024 and 2025 to date; the implementation timeline, monthly targets, and KPIs for electronic monitoring for bail, post-release supervision, …
Tom Brabazon Written 17 Sep 2025 · to Justice
866. Deputy Tom Brabazon asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of bench warrants outstanding in the Garda R district as of 1 September 2025. [48119/25]
Ken O'Flynn Written 17 Sep 2025 · to Justice
867. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if she will publish the number of prisoners sleeping on mattresses on cell floors in each prison; the number of bail-eligible prisoners held on remand due to the absence of electronic tagging or community supervision; and the Department’s specific 2025 targets for expanding electronic monitoring, including procurement status, KPIs, and…
Ken O'Flynn Written 17 Sep 2025 · to Justice
868. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if she will provide the average and maximum time spent on remand since 2020; the proportion of remand prisoners subsequently convicted of non-custodial offences; and the Department’s current policy on crediting time served on remand towards sentence calculation, by prison. [48136/25]
Gary Gannon Written 17 Sep 2025 · to Justice
869. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of committals to prison in 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, by sentence length; and the number of individuals committed to prison in 2023, 2024, and to date in 2025 who have served or are serving their first custodial sentence in Ireland. [48160/25]
Gary Gannon Written 17 Sep 2025 · to Justice
870. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the total number of people remanded to custody in 2024 and to date in 2025. [48161/25]
Gary Gannon Written 17 Sep 2025 · to Justice
871. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of people remanded to custody who did not receive a sentence of imprisonment, either through no conviction or through receiving a sentence less than imprisonment in 2022, 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48162/25]
Gary Gannon Written 17 Sep 2025 · to Justice
872. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of people remanded to custody and sentenced to prison, and who were released immediately due to having already served their sentence on remand in 2022, 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48163/25]
Gary Gannon Written 17 Sep 2025 · to Justice
873. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of instances where a prisoner held solely on remand shared a cell with a convicted prisoner in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2025 by prison, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48164/25]
Gary Gannon Written 17 Sep 2025 · to Justice
874. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the average amount of time that prisoners, not including those on restricted regimes, could spend outside of their cells each day, by prison, by quarter in 2022, 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48165/25]
Barry Ward Written 17 Sep 2025 · to Justice
875. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of recorded cases involving prosecutions for the illegal use of e-scooters and electric bikes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48190/25]
Aidan Farrelly Written 17 Sep 2025 · to Justice
876. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of Garda prisoner transport vans currently in the fleet; if he will provide the same figures as of 1 September 2021, in tabular form. [48202/25]