Parliamentary questions

530. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Justice the number of new marked Garda vans that came into the fleet in 2024 and to date in 2025; and the number of marked vans withdrawn from the fleet during same period, in tabular form. [9600/25]

531. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Justice when he expects to publish the Policing Authority report on serious riots which occurred in Dublin city centre in November 2023. [9601/25]

532. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Justice the date his Department was made aware that the last intake of trainee Gardaí to Templemore in 2024 were not going to be vetted before they entered training. [9616/25]

533. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Justice the status of a citizenship application (details supplied); when the application will be completed given it is over 53 months since the application was first lodged; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9620/25]

534. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Justice the options open to a person (details supplied) who urgently needs to apply for a passport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9710/25]

535. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice if he has been briefed on the reported existence of a Russian spy in the Houses of the Oireachtas. [9754/25]

536. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice if he has been briefed on the identity of the individual who is, according to media reports, a Russian spy in the Houses of the Oireachtas. [9759/25]

537. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice the units and divisions that operate within his Department; the bodies under its aegis; the contact information of each; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9773/25]

538. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice the number of Garda vehicles, per type, per division, per district and per Garda station; the number therein of vehicles which are not currently in use; the corresponding numbers for 2020 to 2024, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9775/25]

539. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Justice the number of Parliamentary Questions his Department has not answered fully and have had to change the reply to, subsequently, since the new Government was formed; and if he will publish same. [9779/25]

540. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Justice if his attention has been drawn to concerns related to the application process for non-EU residents applying for citizenship by naturalisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9797/25]

541. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice the number of crimes that were recorded where the suspected offenders were on bail in each of the last three years, by county and category of offence, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9815/25]

317. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice the information that EURODAC provides; if EURODAC provides information on criminal records, police checks or convictions; if EURODAC is linked to Europol; and if Europol has information on all IPAS applicants that have criminal records. [8649/25]

318. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice if DNA is used to prove family relationships with all family reunification applications; if not, the system that is used; and if applicants that fail these systems are refused entry and or deported. [8650/25]

319. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice the reason a person (details supplied), who was convicted for rape and attempted murder in Sligo, was granted asylum on appeal in Ireland, given that they were from Pakistan and on a student visa in Britain. [8651/25]

320. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice the number of sham marriages that have happened in Ireland for each of the past five years; the proportion of these sham marriages of the total that his Department/Gardaí have investigated for each of the past five years; if it is the case that documents are not verified for their integrity in the EU Treaty Rights Division, Immigration Servi…

321. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice if any banks have refused to verify the integrity of bank documents by those that seek to register a marriage under EU Treaty Rights; and the reason they have done this. [8653/25]

322. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice the number of people for each of the past ten years that have applied through the regularisation of the long-term undocumented migrant scheme; and the number of people that have applied for this scheme that have already received a deportation order for each of the past ten years. [8654/25]

323. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice the immigration penalties that are enforced on those that apply for asylum under false pretences. [8656/25]

324. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice to outline the security checks that are carried out before the issuance of an Irish passport in the case of a person who comes to Ireland on a student visa, then applies for the leave to remain status, and then goes on to marry an Irish national. [8657/25]

325. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Justice if he will provide an update regarding the status of a naturalisation certificate in the case of a person (details supplied). [8664/25]

326. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Justice further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 555, 556, 557 and 583 of 18 February 2025, if he can provide additional clarification in respect of his comment that "As that correspondence is subject to an investigation, I am not in a position to comment in detail"; if he can clarify the precise nature of the investigation and whether the matter of def…

327. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Justice if he or his Department were informed by the Garda Commissioner in July 2021 that the Garda National Technical Bureau unearthed that approximately 17,000 live scan fingerprint records were irretrievably lost from the Garda automated fingerprint identification system subsequent to such fingerprint records going into suspended status due to syste…

328. Deputy Robert O'Donoghue asked the Minister for Justice if there are still proposals to legislate for “Jennie’s Law”; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8732/25]

329. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Justice if he will expedite a visa application in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8811/25]