Parliamentary questions

725. Deputy Martin Daly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the prison overcrowding rate in 2025, as published by the Irish Prison Service; the planned capacity increases under the Irish Prison Service Capital Plan. [5689/26]

726. Deputy Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration further to Parliamentary Question No.744 of 16 December 2025, if the necessary information has been supplied to him in order to have this question answered. [5833/26]

727. Deputy Michael Murphy asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of Garda roads policing vehicles equipped with automatic number plate recognition technology and interconnection with Garda mobility devices. [5847/26]

728. Deputy Paul Nicholas Gogarty asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of people who have applied for international protection from 1 January 2020 to 31 December 2025; of the people who have made their applications in that period, the number who have received a decision in the first instance or separately on appeal; the number who have received a protection status …

729. Deputy Paul Nicholas Gogarty asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of those people who have applied for international protection between 1 January 2019 and 31 December 2024 have received a final decision within a 12-month period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5854/26]

730. Deputy Paul Nicholas Gogarty asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of current outstanding applications and appeals for international protection; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5855/26]

731. Deputy Paul Nicholas Gogarty asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number and percentage of applications for international protection from 1 January 2020 to 31 December 2025, where decisions have been made, have resulted in protection status or leave to remain; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5856/26]

732. Deputy Paul Nicholas Gogarty asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the current number of international protection applicants who do not have leave to remain; the number who have been requested to leave the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5857/26]

733. Deputy Paul Nicholas Gogarty asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the estimated number of failed international applicants without leave to remain who have voluntarily left Ireland between 1 January 2020 and 31 December 2025; the number who have been removed through legal processes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5858/26]

734. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the way in which the proposed family reunification for refugee reforms have been assessed for compatibility with Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights and the constitutional protection of the family; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5871/26]

735. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the position regarding any review of the Garda vetting procedure to reduce the timelines and administrative burden placed on schools and other organisations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5875/26]

736. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if his attention has been drawn to how the equivalent to the Garda vetting process is carried out in the UK, which includes a single live register, where individuals are continuously monitored and relevant organisations can check status in real time; if a similar system could be implemented in Ireland; and if he will…

737. Deputy Michael Collins asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the full list of accommodation premises currently in use, or used at any time since 1 January 2022, in County Kildare by the International Protection Accommodation Service and Ukrainian emergency accommodation/temporary protection accommodation; if details will be provided in relation to each premises (details s…

738. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of visa applications that were live as of 31 December 2025, by type and expressed as a whole number; the number of these that had been determined by 31 December 2025; the number of these that had been granted by 31 December 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5905/26]

739. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if there are planned or scheduled deportation flights for the remainder of 2026; the destination countries concerned; the budgetary provision allocated for such operations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5907/26]

740. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the way a person (details supplied) can change their postal address on file to facilitate receipt of and signature on their citizenship certificate at the new address. [5911/26]

741. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration further to Parliamentary Question No. 395 of 2 December 2025, for an update on the delays in publishing the report (details supplied); whether the legal advice has been given so that the report can be published, given that it has been with him since July 2025; if he will publish the report; and if he will m…

742. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of Irish association applications for naturalisation that have received final decisions since the new guidelines issued in April 2025 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5914/26]

743. Deputy Jen Cummins asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the supports in place for Ukrainian people who have refugee status who came here during the war who are now homeless; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5957/26]

744. Deputy Jen Cummins asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the supports that are in place for people who have left the IPAS system and now find themselves homeless. [5958/26]

745. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration his Departments progress to date on the processing times for persons who have Section 16 Citizenship applications via Irish association; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5987/26]

746. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the measures undertaken by his Department to reduce the backlog of Section 16 citizenship applications via Irish association, in particular applicants who are waiting three to five years for a decision; and the total number of Section 16 applications completed and a decision reached for 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025, in…

747. Deputy Shay Brennan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if he will review the operation of the High Court fee regime under S.I. No. 492 of 2014, in particular the requirement for citizens to pay court stamp fees when initiating proceedings whose primary purpose is the protection or vindication of constitutional rights other than applications under Article 40.4; and if h…

748. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of persons charged in 2024, 2025 and to date in 2026 for driving without motor insurance; and the number of cases struck out in respect of driving without motor insurance over that time period, by district court, in tabular form. [6106/26]

749. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the total cost to date of the Victims Charter advertising campaign which is currently under way on television; to clarify that the Charter applies to Irish citizens as well as foreign nationals; and the reason eight of the nine actors who feature in the television advertisements for the campaign appear to be foreign…