665. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the oversight and accountability mechanisms his Department is putting in place to ensure transparent expenditure and effective governance in relation to the immigration and integration functions transferred from the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3774…
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666. Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if his Department will communicate with a person (details supplied) in order that their passport be issued as soon as possible, as the family has submitted all documents needed over the past few months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37745/25]
667. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the total spent by his Department on accommodation for international protection applicants in each of the past five years; the average cost per night of accommodating an international protection applicant in private accommodation and State-owned accommodation in each of the past five years; the highest rate and lowest rate paid per nig…
668. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the total number of staff in the International Protection Office and International Protection Appeals Tribunal; if his Department has any plans to increase the number of staff in each; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37749/25]
669. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the cost of increasing the number of staff in the International Protection Office and International Protection Appeals Tribunal by 10%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37750/25]
670. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the quantity, by weight and the economic street value, of cocaine seized by Gardaí in each of the past ten years, by county, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37760/25]
671. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of persons who have claimed asylum in Ireland having arrived from Sweden in each of the past 10 years; if a breakdown on country of origin is available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37780/25]
672. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if he will consider counting time spent residing in Northern Ireland as equivalent to time spent living in the Republic of Ireland when it comes to applications for citizenship-naturalisation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37785/25]
673. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if fixed charge notices are currently being issued for the office of displaying illegal number plates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37812/25]
674. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if he has any plans to amend the Status of Children Act 1987 to allow for court-ordered DNA testing of individuals other than alleged parents in appropriate cases, subject to suitable legal safeguards (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37826/25]
675. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the current status of the immigrant investor programme; if it is open or closed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37833/25]
676. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if there are currently any applications being assessed under the immigrant investor programme or any applications under appeal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37834/25]
677. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of households with status, including the number of children who are due to be transferred to alternative IPAS accommodation, on 4 July 2025; if his Department or the International Protection Accommodation Service has engaged with local authorities on the issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37841/25]
678. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the annual resource allocation to the Garda National Immigration Bureau; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37870/25]
679. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of staff allocated to the Garda National Immigration Bureau; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37871/25]
680. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of passport checks conducted at Dublin Airport in 2022, 2023, 2024 and the first half of 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37872/25]
681. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the reason there is not a dedicated channel in Irish airports for travellers arriving into Ireland from within the Ireland-UK free travel area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37873/25]
682. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the basis for requiring travellers arriving into Ireland from within the Ireland-UK free travel area, to present a passport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37874/25]
683. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the documents, other than a passport, that are acceptable for establishing nationality or residence, for travellers arriving into Ireland from within the Ireland-UK free travel area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37875/25]
684. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if he will intervene to reverse the deportation of a man who is facing grave danger since his deportation to Nigeria (details supplied). [37914/25]
685. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration to examine the case of an urgent stamp 4 renewal (details supplied) given the time sensitive nature of their application. [37928/25]
686. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration to intervene to reverse the eviction of an individual resident (details supplied) at an IPAS centre. [37929/25]
1. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number in each intake of gardaí, and the number who attested, in the past three years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36637/25]
2. Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration further to the findings of a report (details supplied) that front-line services were contacted 32,144 times, being an increase of 12% on 2023, that 44% of women surveyed were not satisfied with their initial engagement with An Garda Síochána and that its response to more than 65,000 contacts received last year was inconsistent, th…
3. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the annual percentage of those who received a final negative decision on their international protection application who left Ireland within 30 days and who provided authorities with documentary evidence that they had left within three days of arrival in their home country, for each of the past five years, in tabular form; and if he will …