Questions

742. Deputy Paul Lawless asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of maintenance orders issued by the courts in each of the past five years; and the estimated proportion that went unenforced or required further court applications to recover arrears. [37574/26]

744. Deputy Paul Lawless asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of attachment of earnings orders have been applied for and granted in each of the past five years. [37576/26]

688. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration to provide the assumptions and framework on which the output of his Department's online child maintenance calculator is based; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21549/26]

728. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration his plans to monitor the real-world implications of use of the child maintenance calculator to ensure it reflects the real cost of raising children; the role he intends the child maintenance calculator to play in judicial decision-making; if he plans for future iterations to include education, childcare, medical and disability related …

38. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration whether figures arising from the new 'child maintenance calculator' are intended as guidance only; the extent to which they will be used as guidance; if they may influence judicial decision-making, and to what extent; if they will be somehow legally binding or required; what the underlying calculations are; the evidence used for the…

57. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration whether future revisions of the child maintenance calculator will incorporate cost-of-living and necessary expenditure considerations; whether the formula of the child maintenance calculator will be benchmarked to inflation; whether international best practice models are being reviewed as part of this reform; the consultation that t…