445. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of active contracts currently held by the State for the provision of emergency accommodation for international protection applicants; the number of individual providers involved; and the county location of each accommodation centre. [69799/26]
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446. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the ten largest providers of emergency accommodation for international protection applicants currently contracted by the State; and the value of payments made to each provider in 2025 and to date in 2026. [69800/26]
447. Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the timeline for introducing revised qualifying and eligibility criteria for individuals seeking access to both civil and criminal legal aid schemes; if his Department plans to amend the financial means-assessment thresholds to ensure greater access to justice; and the current progress of any draft regulations or legislation regardin…
448. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration to provide updated information on pathways to resettlement for Palestinians in Gaza coming to Ireland. [70188/26]
449. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration to confirm that he no longer intends to demolish Cork's Detention Barracks on Rathmore Road given it now has proposed protected structure status similar to that of the O'Rahilly House when it was demolished. [70283/26]
450. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of student visa applications from students in Palestine for each year from 2020 to 2026 inclusive, broken down by the number of applications approved and rejected each year, in tabular form. [70189/26]
451. Deputy Pat Buckley asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration to allocate multi annual funding to a programme (details supplied), as it is currently in jeopardy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [70361/26]
452. Deputy Malcolm Byrne asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of unlicensed firearms seized in the State each year from 2016 to 2025, inclusive. [70373/26]
453. Deputy Malcolm Byrne asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of licensed firearms held in the State at the end of each year 2016 to 2025, inclusive. [70372/26]
454. Deputy Cian O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if additional youth diversion projects will be funded in the upcoming budget; the youth diversion supports that are available in an area (details supplied); and if his Department believes further resources are needed in this area. [70342/26]
455. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of and summary of disclosures made to him under Section 41 of the Garda Síochána Act 2005 to date in 2026. [70425/26]
456. Deputy Michael Murphy asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of electric vehicles in the fleet of An Garda Síochána. [70448/26]
457. Deputy Michael Murphy asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of fast chargers installed in Garda stations. [70446/26]
458. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the value of plaintiff legal or other costs arising from the settlement agreements made in respect of terminated pre-contract agreements with the International Protection Accommodation Service and accommodation providers. [70445/26]
459. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if the Garda Dublin Metropolitan Region (DMR) held a regional roads policing competition in 2025-2026 to provide roads policing cover to all Garda divisions within the DMR; and the number of Garda members that applied and were successful and the number waiting for placement. [70461/26]
460. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of divisional roads policing competitions that were held in 2025-2026 for sworn Gardaí to apply to join divisional roads policing units nationwide; the number of Gardaí that applied for each competition; the number who were successful; and the number of sucessful applicants awaiting placement to a roads policing unit. [70460…
461. Deputy Naoise Ó Muirí asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if the forthcoming legislation on violent and extreme pornography will adopt the Council of Europe’s definition of such material, including depictions or simulations of violence, coercion, sexual assault, degradation and non-consensual conduct; and if the council will also criminalise content involving necrophilia and bestiality. [7…
462. Deputy Cian O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if the Intention to grant/payment letter has been issued to a person (details supplied); and if so, the date on which the letter was sent. [70451/26]
463. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration whether his Department holds, or has held in the preceding five years, contracts with a company (details supplied); and the value and purpose of any such contracts. [70477/26]
464. Deputy Catherine Callaghan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of solicitors on the criminal legal aid panel and the number of solicitors from the panel who did not receive any legal aid fees in 2025. [70573/26]
465. Deputy Michael Murphy asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration further to PQ63901/26, the cumulative cost to the Exchequer, on a week-by-week basis, of the interim arrangement for the provision of coronial post-mortem examinations at UHW by locum pathologists since the arrangement commenced on 1 Jan 2026; and, if he maintains that disclosure of these aggregate expenditure figures is commerciall…
466. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration his views on the latest report from the Comptroller and Auditor General which found that with respect to asylum and IPAS accommodation “no value” had been secured from the money paid out, which represented “a substantial loss to taxpayers"; and to provide the details of the total amount lost to taxpayers from these contracts. [70511/26…
467. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration can he provide an update on the drafting of National Cyber Security Bill; and when is it expected this Bill will be published. [70630/26]
468. Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the accommodation centres under the remit of the Office of the Chief Inspector of Asylum Border Procedures; the way in which the Chief Inspectors role interacts with and differs from that of HIQA; and the new designated asylum border facilities that are planned. [70668/26]
469. Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if the National Standards on Accommodation offered to people in the International Protection process are being reviewed and updated in line with recent legislative and policy changes; the status of any such work; the person or body leading it; and the stakeholders are being consulted. [70667/26]