854. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if he will outline any current contracts his Department, or bodies under its aegis, have with a corporation or any of its subsidiaries (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10224/26]
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296. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of those on Stamp 2 permission registered in third level institutions in each of the past ten years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8966/26]
305. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of Stamp 2 student permissions issued in each of the past ten years; and the number of those resident in the State in each of those years holding a Stamp 2 student permission, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8829/26]
321. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the plans to extend the accommodation recognition payment beyond 31 March 2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9046/26]
322. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration further to Parliamentary Question No. 571 of 18 December 2025, and Parliamentary Question 114 of 14 January 2026, if the information requested regarding the number of crimes recorded where the suspected offenders were on bail, by county and category of offence, in 2025, in tabular form is now available; and if he will make a statement …
326. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if he will meet with a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9079/26]
332. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of those on Stamp 2 visas who have worked as healthcare assistance in each of the past five years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9103/26]
333. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of those on Stamp 2 visas who were employed in jobs listed in the ineligible list for employment permits in each of the past five years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9104/26]
760. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if he plans to designate a unit within An Garda Síochána to act as the verifying authority in the State for the purpose of Article 6 of the Eurodac Regulation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7619/26]
761. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of Gardaí employed in the Garda National Immigration Bureau in each of the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7620/26]
762. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the qualification or language competencies a cultural mediator will be required to have under the International Protection Bill 2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7622/26]
822. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if his Department has carried out an assessment as to whether the mobility framework associated with the EU-India Free Trade Agreement, upon which negotiations concluded on 27 January 2026, will form part of the trade proposal that the Commission will bring to the Council, and therefore be subject to qualified majority voting (details …
826. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration to list the measures under protocol 21 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, which Ireland opted out of in each year since the introduction of the protocol, to date in 2026, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8237/26]
827. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration following the review of protocol 21 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union published in 2025, to list the measures which Ireland previously opted out of where opting in is now under consideration, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8238/26]
361. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of EU citizens subject to re-entry bans to the State in each of the past ten years; the average duration of the bans imposed in each year, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7321/26]
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]
141. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if he proposes to introduce new legislation in relation to the interpretation and translation in legal proceedings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6115/26]
143. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of English language schools that were subject to inspection by immigration officials in each of the past five years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6116/26]
160. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration to outline the plans for increasing the Garda training allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6084/26]
186. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of people issued with a deportation order and the number of persons deported by the State, respectively, in each of the past five years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6082/26]
195. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration in respect of each of the 15 recommendations recommended in the report on the operation of bail in Ireland prepared by Senior Counsel Lorcan Staines, entitled ‘An Assessment of the Efficacy of Bail Laws in Ireland’, whether he accepts the recommendation; the status of work to implement the recommendation; the timeframe envisaged to imp…
208. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if he will establish a historical investigations unit to allow for independent police investigation into unresolved deaths and incidents of torture or ill treatment as proposed by the Irish Council for Civil Liberties and the Committee on the Administration of Justice; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6083/26]
215. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if he intends to introduce legislation which would ensure that responsibility for the prosecution of offences would be removed from the Gardaí so that all court proceedings would be conducted by legal professionals, as recommended in the report on the operation of bail in Ireland prepared by Senior Counsel Lorcan Staines entitled ‘An A…
713. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if he will outline the legislation which underpins Ireland’s visa waiver programmes;; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5439/26]
714. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the instances in which a visa order has been issued on the basis of national security or public order in the years 2010 to date; the basis upon which such an order was made, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5440/26]