Questions

350. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration further to Parliamentary Question No. 72604/26 if he will answer the original question and provide the number of smaller-scale and residential properties purchased by the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for the accommodation of more vulnerable international protection applicants. [75005/26]

131. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if it is part of his Department's strategy to reduce numbers in IPAS accommodation by moving persons who have been given leave to stay into homeless accommodation. [74785/26]

721. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of residential properties that have been removed by his Department from the private rental market for use as international protection accommodation since January 2022. [74296/26]

723. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of persons granted permission to remain in the State on humanitarian or exceptional grounds following a failed international protection application in each of the past five years, together with the grounds relied upon in each case. [74275/26]

737. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the total amount paid in accommodation-related contracts to the twenty largest providers of international protection accommodation during 2025 and to date in 2026. [74267/26]

738. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of contracts for international protection accommodation awarded without a public tender process since January 2022 and the total value of such contracts. [74266/26]

739. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the ten electoral divisions with the highest concentration of international protection accommodation per capita and the corresponding figures in each case. [74265/26]

740. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of international protection applicants whose whereabouts are currently unknown to the authorities following registration of their claim. [74264/26]

741. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of applicants for international protection who have made more than one application in Ireland or elsewhere within the European Union, insofar as such information is available through Eurodac or other systems. [74263/26]

466. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration his views on the latest report from the Comptroller and Auditor General which found that with respect to asylum and IPAS accommodation “no value” had been secured from the money paid out, which represented “a substantial loss to taxpayers"; and to provide the details of the total amount lost to taxpayers from these contracts. [70511/26…

815. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the extent to which he has implemented the recommendations of the Comptroller and Auditor General’s 2024 report on IPAS contracting, particularly regarding proof of ownership, fire certification, insurance documentation, and planning compliance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [64240/26]

816. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the measures he has introduced to prevent the awarding or renewal of IPAS contracts to companies whose directors or beneficial owners have been associated with criminal gangs, including those implicated in the Drogheda feud; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [64239/26]

817. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of IPAS contracts currently under review or terminated due to concerns relating to ownership structures, undisclosed overseas funding sources, or links to organised criminality, as highlighted in recent media reporting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [64238/26]

818. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the steps he is taking to ensure that companies awarded International Protection Accommodation Service (IPAS) contracts are subject to full criminal background and financial probity checks, in view of recent reports that contracts were previously issued to entities linked to individuals investigated by the Criminal Assets Bureau and th…

819. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of legacy IPAS contracts that have been renewed despite documented lapses in planning permission, fire safety certification, or insurance compliance; the rationale for allowing such renewals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [64241/26]

831. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of accommodation contracts between IPAS and private companies that have been withdrawn or terminated since 1 January 2025; if he will provide a list of the companies concerned; the centres which they operated; and the reasons for the withdrawal or termination. [64498/26]

504. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the measures being taken to strengthen identity verification processes during the international protection screening procedure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52744/26]

506. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if any return orders have been issued under the return border procedure since the commencement of the International Protection Act 2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52746/26]

164. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if his Department or the International Protection Office collects data on the number of instances where a person is found to have made a false and/or misleading statement on their application for international protection; if so, the number of such instances from 2020 t to 2025 and to date in 2026; and if he will make a statement on the…

240. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 2125 of 9 June 2026, to provide details of the costs paid to GPs for the provision of session clinics and consultations in 2024 and 2025 (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52158/26]

606. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the reason that there has only been a small increase in the number of persons in direct provision under the responsibility of IPAS over the past year, in the order of 200 despite the fact that more than 13,000 new applications were made for International Protection in 2025, and several thousand more in the first half of 2026; and if he…

607. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if persons whose applications for International Protection are still being assessed, are being accommodated in social housing or in State supported private rental accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51837/26]

95. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Taoiseach further to his Parliamentary Question No. 191 of 9 June 2026, to confirm the fact that the international protection status of individuals who commit crime is not recorded means that neither the CSO nor the Government have any awareness or means of ascertaining whether international protection applicants are committing criminal offences to a greater or lesser degree than the …

515. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of asylum applications which were granted in each of the years from 2011 to 2025 and to date in 2026. [47216/26]

516. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the total number of asylum applications in each of the years from 2011 to 2025 and to date in 2026. [47217/26]