787. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons who availed of paternity benefit for each of the years 2022 to 2025 and to date in 2026, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [65674/26]
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788. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Social Protection if a costings analysis has been done to increasing the level of paid paternity leave available in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [65672/26]
789. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing the lower rate of PRSI currently set in line with minimum wage to €18.15. [65495/26]
790. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Social Protection the reason the long-term carer's credit can be counted towards the minimum pension requirements, but HCPS cannot; and to confirm in line with the Programme for Government the actions the Government is taking to amend the legislative provisions so that individuals who have given up their careers to care for others will not be disadvantaged in their old …
791. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person with 520 PRSI contributions may rely on the home caring periods scheme to increase their entitlement to a near full State pension (contributory), while a person with substantial HCPS but less than 520 PRSI contributions is denied any benefit from using the HCPS to meet the minimum requirement; and if he will explain the rationale beh…
792. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Social Protection the statutory provision which explicitly excludes the home caring period scheme from being counted towards the minimum 520 contribution weeks required under the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005; and if no such provision exists, to explain the legal basis on which his Department excludes them. [65865/26]
793. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of abolishing the means test for social protection payments for disabled people and providing supports for all those who meet the criteria. [65830/26]
794. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of abolishing the means test for carer’s allowance and providing access to all who meet the other criteria. [65829/26]
795. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Social Protection the action that has been taken to date to examine what modifications or changes may be made to support women who currently fall outside the existing schemes to qualify for a State pension as per the Programme for Government commitment; and the further action that is proposed. [65885/26]
796. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) is not entitled for a State pension (contributory) despite the fact that they provided care for their children in the home for a number of years; and if this case will be reviewed. [65882/26]
797. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Social Protection if a person (details supplied) would be entitled to receive another State payment given it was concluded that they do not qualify for the State pension (contributory); and if any such support would be available to them. [65884/26]
798. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of increasing disability, blind pensions and invalidity pension to €350 per week. [65828/26]
799. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of increasing disability, blind pensions and invalidity pension to €375 per week. [65827/26]
800. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if his Department can review a case (details supplied) where it appears that a systems error in INIS resulted in a case being prematurely closed, despite the applicant’s best efforts to supply the required information. [64173/26]
801. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if there are plans to introduce an independent complaints, review or oversight mechanism for the administration of naturalisation applications. [64172/26]
802. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if he considers it appropriate that an INIS applicant's principal external remedy for an alleged administrative or procedural failure with their application is judicial review before the High Court. [64171/26]
803. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the mechanism that exists for an INIS applicant to have an alleged systemic or procedural failure independently examined, where the complaint does not concern the Minister's substantive decision on citizenship; and if there is no such mechanism, if there are plans to establish one. [64170/26]
804. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the independent body that has oversight of the administrative procedures used in processing naturalisation applications. [64169/26]
805. Deputy Ruth Coppinger asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if he will supply a breakdown of the funding the various front-line organisations that support gender-based violence victims and survivors receive from his Department; and if he will consider a significant increase of the funding in view of the vital service they provide. [64182/26]
806. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration in circumstances where the Irish Prison Service has not been established on a statutory basis, the person or body that constituted the 'relevant authority' under the Department of Finance Circular 22/2007 for determining an application by a prison officer for retirement on grounds of ill health since 2019; the authority to make the fin…
807. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of Garda vetting applications received and completed in 2024, 2025 and to date in 2026; the median processing time in each period; and the number of applications which took more than ten, 20 and 30 working days to complete, in tabular form. [64207/26]
808. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of people who were the subject of more than one Garda vetting application within a three-year period in 2024, 2025 and to date in 2026; the number who underwent vetting twice, three times or more during that period; and the sectors in which these repeat applications arose, if available. [64208/26]
809. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number and proportion of operational members of An Garda Síochána who had completed training on the Health Diversion Approach prior to its commencement on 1 September 2026, broken down by Garda division; the nature and duration of that training; and the arrangements in place to train members who had not completed it before the comm…
810. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of persons currently subject to the notification requirements of the Sex Offenders Act 2001; the number assessed as presenting a low, medium or high risk; the number who breached their notification requirements and whose whereabouts became unknown or who were convicted of a further sexual offence, in each of the past five ye…
811. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration whether his Department has examined the establishment of a publicly accessible, State-operated register of persons convicted of serious sexual offences not covered under the Domestic Violence Register; the principal constitutional, data-protection and human-rights issues identified; and whether he will publish any policy analysis under…