349. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if the six-month employment requirement under the temporary protection transition scheme must in all cases have been completed immediately prior to 30 September 2026; the reason the qualifying period was fixed by reference to 30 September 2026 when the earlier published information did not clearly identify 30 March 2026 as a qualifying…
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375. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration further to Parliamentary Question No. 72780/26, the precise reasons the regulations and contribution model as laid down in the relevant Statutory Instrument have never been implemented before now; if this was a political or policy decision by his Department or by Cabinet; and if implementation of the S.I. has been objected to by any ad…
724. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration whether his Department or the Government possesses estimates of the number of unlawfully present migrants currently residing in the State; and if so, the basis for those estimates. [74274/26]
727. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration whether the Government has considered linking visa issuance or bilateral cooperation arrangements to the acceptance of nationals subject to deportation orders. [74283/26]
731. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration whether any organisations receiving State funding for migration-related services also participated in consultations on migration policy; and if so, if he will provide details. [74273/26]
733. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of formal meetings held between his Department and non-governmental organisations relating to migration policy since January 2025; and if he will provide a schedule of those meetings. [74272/26]
590. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if Kerry applications are still being considered under the immigrant investor programme; and, if so, to provide details of the applications being considered. [72459/26]
74. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration when he expects to publish the draft National Migration and Integration Strategy; and if it will include consideration of an all-island approach to the management of migration. [70562/26]
552. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the research, analysis or comparative assessment was undertaken by his Department in determining that the qualifying period of reckonable residence for naturalisation should be increased from five years to eight years; and if an assessment was carried out of the potential impact of this change on persons already lawfully resident in the St…
554. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the evidence base for raising the marriage/civil partnership residency requirement from three years to five, separately from the general increase in reckonable residence from five to eight. [68181/26]
581. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration further to PQ68181/26, if consideration was given to the effect of the Irish Nationality and Citizenship (Amendment) Bill 2026 on Irish citizens themselves — not just on the foreign-national spouse — of retroactively extending the timeline for their own husband, wife, or partner to become a citizen of this country. [68182/26]
604. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration further to Parliamentary Question No. 65832/26 of 16 September 2026, (details supplied) the number of notices of intention to revoke a certificate of naturalisation issued since 7 April 2025; the number of Committees of Inquiry requested and appointed; the number of Committee decisions affirming or setting aside his decision, noting th…
276. Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if he agrees that an Irish child should have the same rights for a parent to be resident in Ireland as a child who is citizen of another EU member state under the Zambrero judgment; the administrative mechanism that exists in Ireland through which that asserted EU-law right is determined; and where in the completed refusal or review …
862. Deputy Erin McGreehan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of immigration checks carried out by An Garda Síochána in each of the Border counties of Louth, Monaghan, Cavan, Leitrim and Donegal in each of the past 12-months, by county and type of operation; and the number of persons detected during those checks who did not have lawful permission to enter or remain in the State. […
863. Deputy Erin McGreehan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of persons detected entering or attempting to enter the State without a passport or other valid identity or travel documentation in each of the past 12 months, broken down by location, nationality and stated route of entry; and he will make a statement on the matter. [64776/26]
869. Deputy Erin McGreehan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the standard procedure followed when a person enters or is found in the State without verifiable identity or travel documentation; the measures used to establish their identity, nationality and travel route; the use of fingerprints, photographs and national or international databases; the circumstances in which detention may be cons…
870. Deputy Erin McGreehan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of undocumented persons detected entering or attempting to enter the State in each of the past 12-months who were refused leave to land, returned to their point of departure, issued with a deportation order, or removed from the State, broken down by month, nationality and category of action taken. [64779/26]
871. Deputy Erin McGreehan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration of those detected entering or attempting to enter the State unlawfully in each of the past 12-months, the number who subsequently applied for international protection, broken down by month, nationality and location of detection; and the number transferred into the international protection process. [64778/26]
878. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration further to Parliamentary Question No. 315 of 15 July 2026, whether the review is a systematic review of all naturalised citizens convicted of such offences or a case by case process (details supplied); the number of such cases reviewed since 7 April 2025; the number referred for citizenship revocation proceedings in that period; and if…
883. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of citizenship revocation cases initiated, completed, discontinued and currently pending in each year from 2016 to date; the grounds relied upon in each case, categorised by grounds for revocation, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [65007/26]
884. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of naturalised Irish citizens who have received a custodial sentence of five years or more in each year since 2016; the number in respect of whom citizenship revocation was considered; the number in respect of whom revocation proceedings were commenced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [65005/26]
885. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of cases identified since 2016 in which a person who had acquired Irish citizenship was subsequently found to have provided false, misleading or fraudulent information in an immigration, international protection, residence or citizenship application; the number in which revocation proceedings followed; and the outcome of tho…
898. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of persons granted citizenship on the basis of marriage or civil partnership with an Irish citizen in each year since 2015 and to date in 2026; the number of applications refused because the marriage or partnership was deemed not genuine or enduring; the number subsequently identified as marriages of convenience; the number…
907. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of naturalised Irish citizens subsequently convicted of an indictable offence in Ireland in each of the past ten years, by offence category by year where possible, in which citizenship was granted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [65004/26]
936. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if any written policy, protocol or operational guidance governs the actions of the Garda National Immigration Bureau when a person intercepted during an immigration check on a cross-Border road or public transport service is subsequently returned to Northern Ireland; whether such guidance provides for a formal handover to a UK authorit…