101. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of fraud cases with social protection payments detected in each of the past five years. [6636/26]
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102. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Social Protection if he is aware of cases in which a person has fraudulently claimed carer's allowance for another person who was unaware of the claim made in their name; the checks which are made with the GP who signed the form, that they are the persons own GP. [6637/26]
103. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Social Protection the mechanisms in place to ensure that recipients of social welfare are still residing here full-time. [6638/26]
104. Deputy Robert O'Donoghue asked the Minister for Social Protection whether records are kept on the purpose of community welfare officer grants; if so, if that data includes grants awarded in domestic violence cases where families were required to leave the family home; if so, the number of such grants issued and value in each year from 2022 to 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6653/26]
105. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Social Protection to publish the operational guidelines for the auto-enrolment scheme. [6655/26]
106. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Social Protection given the AE scheme was already in payment for many persons, to confirm the basics of the scheme (details supplied). [6656/26]
107. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Social Protection whether a gender impact assessment was undertaken of the auto-enrolment savings scheme; if so, to provide the findings of the study. [6657/26]
108. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Social Protection if his Department is in charge of the actual pension funds and investments regarding the auto-enrolment savings scheme. [6658/26]
109. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Social Protection if there will be an Ethics Committee within the auto-enrolment savings scheme to ensure that there are no investments made by the National Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings Authority, the investment management providers or any third party investment fund providers that go against the core values of Ireland (details supplied). [6659/26]
110. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Social Protection if he will consider the Bruegel paper conclusion warning against using State pensions and saving funds as surety to further political and economics projects, to confirm that the first duty of the National Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings Authority and the pensions funds is to protect and grow peoples savings. [6662/26]
111. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Social Protection the reason there has been such a delay in publishing the guidelines of the auto-enrolment scheme given this scheme was rolled out to many persons in the past weeks. [6663/26]
112. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Social Protection the exact number of people enrolled in the auto-enrolment scheme. [6664/26]
113. Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Social Protection if he will address important matters raised in correspondence from a person in County Kildare (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6749/26]
114. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Social Protection his plans to implement the Joint Committee on Social Protection, Community and Rural Development and the Islands 2024 recommendations regarding carers; in particular, his plans to ensure that each care-related credited contribution awarded while in receipt of carer’s benefit or carer’s allowance should have the same value and currency as a paid contribu…
115. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Social Protection whether a person who has had to leave the paid workforce with fewer than 520 paid contributions to become a carer would be refused the State pension (contributory) despite having up to 19 years and 51 weeks’ worth of care-related credited contributions awarded in return for providing a minimum of 35 hours a week of care work. [6753/26]
116. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Social Protection his Department’s current and historical communication to carers and potential carers that they relinquished their entitlement to the State pension (contributory) by providing care; whether persons were informed that their care-related credited contributions are not considered qualifying contributions for SPC eligibility; and if he is satisfied that info…
117. Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Social Protection if appeal payments can be accelerated (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6783/26]
118. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration further to correspondence (details supplied) confirming that Gardaí now have full access to the NVDF on their mobility device to driver records including full licence and learner permit details, details of disqualifications and penalty points, if they will also be given details of whether a licence or permit was surrendered on disquali…
119. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the learnings from the Garda mobility pilot project in the Kildare/Carlow division that allowed Gardaí full access to the NVDF on their mobility device from 9 December 2025; if the information that Gardai now have access to is in real time; and if the data they access on their mobility device on each driver's penalty point history will…
120. Deputy Martin Daly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the way the current court fees regime (S.I. No. 492 of 2014) aligns with the State’s obligation to ensure effective access to the courts for the protection and vindication of constitutional rights; if he will introduce an explicit exemption from High Court stamp fees for proceedings brought primarily to vindicate fundamental rights; an…
121. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration to urgently address matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6725/26]
122. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if he will consider exercising his discretionary powers to grant leave to remain to an asylum applicant (details supplied) on humanitarian grounds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6748/26]
123. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration regarding letters issued to people residing in direct provision centres giving them dates by which they have to leave or be moved to another centre, the current criteria for issuing such letters; the number of such letters issued to date; the number of people who have been moved on foot of these letters; and a breakdown of these moves…
124. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of stamp 2 student visas issued in each of the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6824/26]
125. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if he intends to publish the guidelines issued to members of An Garda Síochána in relation to the operation and use of tasers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6902/26]