285. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration whether his Department has undertaken any assessment of recruitment and retention trends among solicitors undertaking criminal legal aid work since 1 January 2022; and if he will provide details of any such assessment. [66126/26]
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286. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the timeline for the processing of a peace commissioner application for a person (details supplied). [66196/26]
287. Deputy Eamon Scanlon asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if he will provide details of the costs incurred to date, together with the total estimated expenditure for phases 1 and 2, of the development at Castlerea Prison, including the provision of four modular six-bedroom houses, an additional ancillary services building and the construction of 21 lower-security units at The Grove, includi…
288. Deputy Eamon Scanlon asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the budgeted cost of demolishing the old Cork Prison buildings, including all associated preparatory and clearance works. [66288/26]
289. Deputy John Clendennen asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration further to Parliamentary Question No. 239 of 26 November 2025, if he will confirm the current status of the office (details supplied). [66268/26]
290. Deputy Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the amount spent by Gardaí on replacing musician instruments for the Garda band in 2025 and to-date in 2026, in tabular form. [66279/26]
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…
812. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of disclosures authorised under section 14E and publications authorised under section 14G of the Sex Offenders Act 2001, as amended, since those provisions commenced; the guidance applied by An Garda Síochána when deciding whether disclosure is necessary; and whether the operation and adequacy of these provisions have been r…
813. Deputy George Lawlor asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of appeals submitted for penalty points fines issued at two locations (details supplied); and the number of appeals that were successful. [64140/26]
814. Deputy Eoin Hayes asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of interventions made in Dublin, by area within Dublin, and by age in each of the years from 2015 to 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [64132/26]
815. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the extent to which he has implemented the recommendations of the Comptroller and Auditor General’s 2024 report on IPAS contracting, particularly regarding proof of ownership, fire certification, insurance documentation, and planning compliance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [64240/26]
816. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the measures he has introduced to prevent the awarding or renewal of IPAS contracts to companies whose directors or beneficial owners have been associated with criminal gangs, including those implicated in the Drogheda feud; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [64239/26]
817. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of IPAS contracts currently under review or terminated due to concerns relating to ownership structures, undisclosed overseas funding sources, or links to organised criminality, as highlighted in recent media reporting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [64238/26]
818. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the steps he is taking to ensure that companies awarded International Protection Accommodation Service (IPAS) contracts are subject to full criminal background and financial probity checks, in view of recent reports that contracts were previously issued to entities linked to individuals investigated by the Criminal Assets Bureau and th…