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Carol Nolan Written 20 May 2025 · to Justice
685. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Justice the cost per year of transporting temporary protection applicants to accommodation centres from 2020 to date in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25728/25]
Matt Carthy Written 20 May 2025 · to Justice
693. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice the number of beneficiaries of temporary protection in the State in 2022, 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25796/25]
Matt Carthy Written 20 May 2025 · to Justice
699. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice the number of international protection applicants in the State currently and in each of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25810/25]
Matt Carthy Written 20 May 2025 · to Justice
700. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice the number of international protection applicants housed in IPAS accommodation currently and in each of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25811/25]
Matt Carthy Written 20 May 2025 · to Justice
701. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice the number of international protection applicants in the State but not housed in IPAS accommodation currently and in each of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25812/25]
Matt Carthy Written 20 May 2025 · to Justice
702. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice the number of international protection applications that were unsuccessful in 2025 and in each of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25813/25]
Matt Carthy Oral 15 May 2025 · to Justice
118. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice the total amount that was spent on IPAS accommodation in 2024; the projected spend on IPAS accommodation in 2025; the plans he has to initiate a value for money review into contracts for the provision of IPAS accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24688/25]
Colm Burke Oral 15 May 2025 · to Justice
123. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Justice for the up to date position on the roll-out nationally of distinct family law courts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24868/25]
Gary Gannon Written 15 May 2025 · to Justice
135. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Justice the number of contracts with private accommodation providers for IPAS that have been terminated between 1 January 2025 and 7 May 2025; the number of beds associated with those terminated contracts; the number of new contracts awarded in the same period; the number of beds associated with those new contracts; in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the…
Matt Carthy Written 15 May 2025 · to Justice
151. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice the plans to introduce a standard structured form of consultation with communities in relation to the location of IPAS centres; his plans for the introduction of criteria to ensure IPAS centres are not located in areas already lacking in services or experiencing deprivation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24763/25]
Catherine Connolly Written 15 May 2025 · to Justice
162. Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Justice his plans to review the process whereby international protection applicants may, at very short notice, be moved from the communities in which they have established connections; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24441/25]
Pa Daly Written 14 May 2025 · to Justice
140. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Justice the number of Section 5 planning applications that were submitted; the number that were granted to applicants for town centre IPAS or Ukrainian accommodation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24749/25]
John Connolly Written 14 May 2025 · to Justice
151. Deputy John Connolly asked the Minister for Justice the efforts he is making to ensure that locations where the sole hotel remaining in a given town which is currently being used, or is proposed to be used, to provide accommodation for international protection applicants are maintained as hotels to provide beds to support the local tourism industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21666/25]
Ken O'Flynn Written 13 May 2025 · to Justice
849. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Justice to provide a full, itemised, disaggregated and centre-by-centre breakdown of all financial, operational, service-based, and legal expenditures and arrangements associated with the accommodation and support of international protection applicants in the State from January 2020 to date; and to provide this information in full, without aggregation, redaction, or gene…
John Brady Written 13 May 2025 · to Justice
861. Deputy John Brady asked the Minister for Justice if he intends to continue using a building (details supplied) as an IPAS centre, or if it will return to providing accommodation for individuals fleeing domestic abuse; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23424/25]
John Brady Written 13 May 2025 · to Justice
862. Deputy John Brady asked the Minister for Justice if he intends to continue using a building (details supplied) as an IPAS centre, or if it will return to providing emergency homeless accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23425/25]
Louis O'Hara Written 13 May 2025 · to Justice
864. Deputy Louis O'Hara asked the Minister for Justice further to Parliamentary Question No. 118 of 29 April 2025 and following the transfer of Integration to his Department if he will review the contract singed to provide international protection accommodation at a location (details supplied) in light of the concerns expressed by the local community; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23438/25]
John Brady Written 13 May 2025 · to Justice
867. Deputy John Brady asked the Minister for Justice to provide a cost of providing security on a monthly basis at an accommodation centre (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23448/25]
Peadar Tóibín Written 13 May 2025 · to Justice
871. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice the number of vacant IPAS accommodation beds under paid contract with the State; the location of these vacant IPAS beds; the total cost to the State of these vacant beds. [23543/25]
Peadar Tóibín Written 13 May 2025 · to Justice
872. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice the number of IPAS accommodation beds under paid contract with the State that have been vacant for each of the past five years; the location of these vacant IPAS each of the past five years; and the total cost to the State of these vacant beds for each of the past five years. [23544/25]
Ivana Bacik Written 13 May 2025 · to Justice
909. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Justice if there will be continuity of staffing for teams dealing with international protection and Ukraine accommodation since transfer from the Department of Children, Disability and Equality. [24460/25]
Mattie McGrath Written 13 May 2025 · to Justice
912. Deputy Mattie McGrath asked the Minister for Justice the full costs of modular housing for Ukrainians at Heywood Road, Clonmel, County Tipperary; the reason for the excessive costs; if the full costs of the project are not yet available, if he will provide the costs to date of the project given the project is almost finalised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24468/25]
Pearse Doherty Written 8 May 2025 · to Justice
363. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Justice his plans to accommodate international protection applicants at a location (details supplied); the stage this plan is at; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22978/25]
Catherine Connolly Written 8 May 2025 · to Justice
365. Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Justice if a review of the cultural mediators pilot project in the international protection process has been completed by the Department; the results of that review; the degree to which international protection applicants were consulted; if the review is publicly available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22980/25]
Catherine Connolly Written 8 May 2025 · to Justice
366. Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Justice the process by which a person who is refused leave to land at Dublin Airport may indicate they are in need of international protection or be identified as same by an immigration officer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22981/25]