Immigration Policy

353. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration to specify the current maximum and minimum levels of financial assistance available to persons and family units under the voluntary return programme; and to confirm when these levels were last reviewed or amended. [52768/25]

354. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the average financial support paid per person and per family unit under the voluntary return programme in each of the past five years. [52769/25]

358. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration whether his Department has commissioned or received any independent evaluations or audits of the effectiveness of the voluntary return programme since its introduction in 2009; and if so, to make such reports publicly available. [52773/25]

373. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the annual spend on reintegration grants for voluntary returns; the number who have available of this in each of the past five years, and in 2025 to date, including a breakdown of countries returned to, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52875/25]

129. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if his Department has carried out an assessment of the potential impact on migration into the State of the proposed introduction of mandatory digital identity cards for workers in the United Kingdom; and if he will publish the details of same [52412/25]

130. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if contingency planning has been undertaken by his Department to address the risk of increased irregular migration into the State via the land border with Northern Ireland arising from changes in UK immigration enforcement policy; and if he will set out the measures considered. [52413/25]

131. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if his Department has consulted with the Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade regarding the diplomatic and legal implications for Ireland of potential secondary migration flows into the State following UK immigration policy changes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52415/25]

132. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration whether he has directed his officials to develop protocols with the Police Service of Northern Ireland to monitor and address irregular migration across the land border arising from prospective changes in UK immigration enforcement; and if he will outline those protocols. [52416/25]

133. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration whether he has commissioned any legal analysis on the compatibility of existing Common Travel Area arrangements with the introduction of mandatory digital identity cards in the UK; and if he will publish that legal advice. [52417/25]

134. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if he will provide details of any interdepartmental discussions his Department has held with the Department of Social Protection and the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, regarding the possible impact on asylum accommodation and welfare services of migration pressures linked to UK immigration ref…

135. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration whether he intends to seek support or assistance at European Union level in the event that the State experiences a disproportionate increase in asylum or migration applications as a result of UK policy changes; and if he will set out the form such support might take. [52419/25]

136. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration whether his Department has updated its risk assessments of international protection applications to account for the likelihood of individuals relocating from the United Kingdom into this jurisdiction in anticipation of stricter UK immigration enforcement; and if he will provide the findings. [52420/25]

137. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration whether he will report to Dáil Éireann on the preparedness of the State’s immigration, border management and asylum systems to address any displacement of irregular migrants from the UK to Ireland following the introduction of mandatory digital identity cards in Britain. [52421/25]

138. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if proposals are under consideration for citizenship to automatically be granted to residents who live in Ireland for over twenty years (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52456/25]

1497. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of days each year that people pass through Dublin port without any passport control, considering when this Deputy came through Dublin port there was no one manning passport control. [45005/25]

1655. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the updated timeframe regarding the processing of an immigration application for a person (details supplied) submitted in 2022, given indicative processing timeframes have already passed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46383/25]

1927. Deputy Pat Buckley asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if any measures are taken to ensure that Israeli citizens entering the State have not committed, or were otherwise complicit, in war crimes. [41012/25]

1952. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of visas that have been issued to non-naturalised parents of children born in Ireland over the last five years; the number of those visas that have been extended; and the number of those visas that have resulted in applications to remain, broken down by country of origin, in tabular form. [41219/25]

2059. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration given that the Government considers conditions in Gaza to constitute a genocide, whether any senior official in his Department has been appointed to co-ordinate immigration permissions for Palestinians who might seek refuge in Ireland. [42409/25]

2060. Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if he will arrange for immigration service delivery to submit the document needed for a person (details supplied) to get their SUSI grant to start Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42422/25]

2064. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if he will provide information on how best to evacuate to Ireland a sick Palestinian woman who needs specialist treatment that is available here; if he will advise what visa she should apply for in these circumstances and if there are any special humanitarian visas that can be arranged given her serious he…

2067. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration when a reply will issue to correspondence (details supplied). [42740/25]

2105. Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration to provide a detailed report on the Immigrant Investor Programme; the number of applications received by the Department since the programme’s inception; a list of all approved applications, with the date of approval, the relevant townland(s), and the amount invested; a list of all rejected applications, including…

2106. Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration to detail the number of staff assigned to the section of the Department responsible for processing applications under the Immigrant Investor Programme, in each year from 2018 to date in 2025, including a breakdown by grade; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43362/25]

2108. Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the details of the recent engagement his Department has had with the EU regarding migration in Europe; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43460/25]