Parliamentary questions

582. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the conditions which currently apply for an application for Irish citizenship; his views on whether these conditions are currently too lax and need to be tightened; if individuals who are granted asylum status receive any preferential treatment or fast track in relation to citizenship applications; and if he will ma…

583. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if he will support the formation of a permanent stakeholders’ forum for licensed firearms holders; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35927/25]

584. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the reason the majority off all join family visa applications are being sent to visa HQ in Dublin when several embassies hold powers to process in-house; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35950/25]

585. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the average processing time for join family visas processed in Dublin HQ given the 72-day processing time stated by him in previous parliamentary questions is not in line with processing times stated on the ISD website; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35951/25]

586. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the reason there is no ability to track when visa applications have been sent from an embassy abroad to visa HQ in Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35952/25]

587. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the reason postal queries sent to visa HQ are taking upwards of six months for replies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35953/25]

588. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration to clarify his Department’s new policy to not refuse visas in the first instance and instead RFI with a 15-day deadline, and the impact of such on processing times; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35954/25]

589. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of staff in his Department are working on queries which are received through the new DCC portal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35955/25]

590. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if AI is being used to answer queries received through the DCC portal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35956/25]

591. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the way in which migrants with urgent queries should contact his Department, given queries submitted through the new DCC portal are taking 3-6 weeks for replies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35957/25]

592. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration when the review of the non-EEA join family policy document will be completed. [35958/25]

593. Deputy Paul Lawless asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the expected rollout timeline for the national electronic tagging programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35970/25]

594. Deputy Paul Lawless asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if Castlerea Prison is included in the electronic tagging programme implementation plans; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35971/25]

595. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration for a schedule of the number of Defence Force members that made applications to the Garda trainee programme in each year from 2021 to date in 2025; the number of those that were successful at stage 1 and 2 of the Garda recruitment process, for the same time period; and the number of those that were admitted to th…

596. Deputy John Brady asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration to provide a timeframe for the complete refurbishment of the now closed District courthouse in Wicklow town; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36024/25]

597. Deputy John Brady asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration to provide details of the costings-options for full restoration of Wicklow Courthouse that the OPW provided the Courts Service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36025/25]

598. Deputy John Brady asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration to provide a breakdown of all costs, including nature of cost for the closed Wicklow Courthouse for each year between 2010 and 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36026/25]

599. Deputy John Brady asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if consideration has been given to handing the Wicklow Courthouse over for community usage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36027/25]

600. Deputy John Brady asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration to outline any capacity issues in Wicklow in relation to the Courts Service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36028/25]

601. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of Gardaí attached to roads policing units to date in June 2025, by division; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36212/25]

602. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration in light of the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza and the level of public sympathy for Palestinians in Ireland whether he will expand the Community Sponsorship Programme to help settle Palestinian families in Ireland with community support. [36222/25]

279. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if he is aware that the National Cyber Security Bill 2024 makes reference, on page 11, to “a university within the meaning of the University Act, 1997” and that this does not reflect the fact that Ireland now has several technological universities and that the Cyber Security Bill may, as a result, need to be accord…

280. Deputy Louis O'Hara asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration to examine the case of a person (details supplied) requiring assistance with a citizenship application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35003/25]

281. Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if there are any proposals to purchase a facility (details supplied) for use as IPAS accommodation; the number that may be accommodated if the complex is purchased; and if he plans to engage with the local community about future plans for this facility. [35004/25]

282. Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the average wait time for a join family visa to be processed for a family where a non-EU citizen is joining their non-EU citizen spouse; if additional staff have been allocated to the visa processing department to reduce waiting times; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35033/25]