Parliamentary questions

1511. Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice asked the Minister for Justice the cost of legal aid regarding asylum applications in courts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18649/25]

1512. Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice asked the Minister for Justice the current timeframe for initial application to final appeal from a safe country, and an unsafe country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18650/25]

1513. Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice asked the Minister for Justice the longest timeframe a person seeking asylum and started with application and is in courts appealing in the current cases that have not been finished; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18651/25]

1514. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Justice if publicans are permitted to serve adults alcohol-free branded beer where they intend the beer to be for consumption by children who are accompanying the adults in the publicans’ licensed premises during normal regulated licensing hours; and if so, whether he will consider a change in the law to ensure that this is no longer permitted and giv…

1515. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Justice for a breakdown of the total number of Gardaí serving, by rank in each county based on location as of 7 April 205, in tabular form. [18660/25]

1516. Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Justice to make a statement in relation to the Review of Part 4 of the Sexual Offences Act 2017, and the acknowledgement in that review that there has been no impact on demand for the purchasing of sex since the enactment of the legislation, even though that was the key rationale for its implementation, and in that context, and the lack of any…

1517. Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Justice to make a statement regarding the status of the draft report on the review of Part 4 of the Sexual Offences Act 2017, submitted by the original independent expert commissioned to undertake that review in July 2020, with particular reference to where that report can be accessed, the reason it was not published, and the relationship betw…

1518. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Justice if he will provide this Deputy with a copy of the briefing paper given to Minister Humphreys when she temporarily became Minister for Justice in March 2021. [18739/25]

1519. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Justice if he will provide this Deputy with a copy of the briefing paper given to Minister Harris when he temporarily became Minister for Justice in December 2022. [18740/25]

1520. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Justice when section 100 and in particular the related subsection 98.2 of the Gambling Act 2024 will be commenced, given that these sections relate to children being permitted into greyhound stadiums where gambling takes place and requires reasons to be given by the venues as to their suitability for young children; and if he will make a stateme…

1521. Deputy Naoise Ó Cearúil asked the Minister for Justice the status regarding a visa application (details supplied); the expected timeline for when this application will be finalised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18780/25]

1522. Deputy Denise Mitchell asked the Minister for Justice the status of the review into his Department's family reunification policy; when he will publish a revised policy in this area; if he will list the groups and individuals whom he has consulted on this policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18796/25]

1523. Deputy Denise Mitchell asked the Minister for Justice if any additional resources have been committed to visa processing over the past twelve months; the plans for further resources to be allocated to visa processing; when we can expect to see improvements in the timelines for processing applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18797/25]

1524. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Justice if he can guarantee that no journalists or Members of the Houses of the Oireachtas are in any way being targeted by or have ever been targeted by the use of modern spying technology or communications interception technology by any arm of the State. [18799/25]

1525. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Justice when he last discussed the use of modern spying technology or communications interception technology and how it is being used in the State with the Garda Commissioner. [18800/25]

1526. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Justice the number of protected disclosures made internally in An Garda Síochána since the commencement of the Protected Disclosures Act 2014; and of that number, how many were upheld in favour of the confidential reporter in terms of the alleged wrongdoing being disclosed, by year, in tabular form. [18801/25]

1527. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Justice the number of people who have been granted Irish citizenship in each of the years since 2020 who have previously been subject to a deportation order, that was revoked or not executed, in tabular form. [18807/25]

1528. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Justice the Garda divisions currently without a crime prevention officer (CPO); the length of time each of those divisions have been without a CPO, in tabular form. [18845/25]

1529. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Justice the number of full-time solicitors employed by Athlone law centre as of 2 April 2025, in tabular form. [18846/25]

1530. Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Justice to provide the number of fixed charge notices issued by Gardaí for the offence of ‘learner driver unaccompanied by a qualified driver’, by county, in the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18896/25]

1531. Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Justice when the second piece of legislation under the General Scheme of the Sale of Alcohol Bill, relating to the regulation of distance selling of alcohol, will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18918/25]

1532. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Justice if mechanisms have been considered to redact an individual’s address from a safety order if it is requested by the person requesting the safety order; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18933/25]

1533. Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Justice the number of vehicles that were confiscated by Gardaí at the roadside for non-display of road tax in 2024; and the normal protocol for dealing with a driver with an out-of-date or non-display of a motor tax disc. [18958/25]

1534. Deputy Séamus McGrath asked the Minister for Justice if he will review the fees to apply for Irish citizenship to make them relative to the length of time people have lived here (details supplied). [18961/25]

1535. Deputy Máire Devine asked the Minister for Justice the number of cases taken by the DPP since 1 January 2020 that have not complied with the premise of parity of representation set as precedent in case law Carmody v. The Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform and Others. (2009); the case names, dates, and locations of these court cases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. […