International Protection

158. Deputy Mattie McGrath asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the occupancy rate of apartment accommodation together with the number of apartment units vacant for more than 30 days in each year from 2023 to 2025 and to date in 2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52102/26]

162. Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration to report on the removal and confiscation of private fridges and a prohibition of the storing of food or medication in the rooms at an IPAS centre (details supplied); if he is concerned that this may have a deleterious effect on elderly or very young residents; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52231/26…

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 mak…

166. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration whether residents at IPAS accommodation are entitled to keep foodstuffs in their room; whether refrigerators privately purchased by IPAS residents are allowed in rooms; if his attention has been drawn to management at an IPAS accommodation (details supplied) that are confiscating privately purchased refrigerators f…

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]

546. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration his plans for additional IPAS accommodation centres in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50990/26]

557. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of international protection applicants in each of the border, accelerated, standard, AMMR and inadmissibility procedures under the International Protection Act 2026; the nationalities represented in each procedure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51159/26]

559. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration whether he is considering introducing the international protection child payment, outlined in the White Paper to End Direct Provision, as a crucial anti-poverty measure in Budget 2027; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51161/26]

561. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of male international protection applicants who have been left without accommodation on arrival each month from January 2026 to date; if he plans to end this policy in the short term; and if so, the way in which he plans to meet the temporary accommodation needs of these individuals. [51193/26]

562. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of households with status in IPAS accommodation who have been written to with a notice of transfer; the breakdown of those households including the number of children affected; whether best interest assessments have taken place with respect to those children; and if he will make a statement on the matter…

583. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the total number of staff in the International Protection Office and International Protection Appeals Tribunal; if his Department plans to increase the number of staff in each following the introduction of the EU Migration and Asylum Pact; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51441/26]

584. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the estimated first and full-year cost of increasing the number of staff in the International Protection Office and International Protection Appeals Tribunal by 10%, in tabular form. [51442/26]

587. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the targeted recruitment for the International Protection Office and appeals tribunal, following the introduction of the EU Migration and Asylum Pact; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51445/26]

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 hal…

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]

320. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Education and Youth further to the obligation under Section 78 of the International Protection Act 2026 to provide children seeking international protection with access to primary and post-primary education within two months of application, the number of additional school places projected to be required in the school planning areas serving the Citywes…

321. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Education and Youth if any primary or post-primary school places in the Saggart and wider South Dublin area are, or will be, specifically reserved or ring-fenced for children of international protection applicants accommodated at the Citywest Reception Centre; the way in which such arrangements interact with the standard admissions and enrolment proce…

322. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Education and Youth given that children seeking international protection at the Citywest Reception Centre may be enrolled in local schools within two months of application while their families are simultaneously subject to the accelerated border procedure of up to 12 weeks, or to onward dispersal to other IPAS centres following screening, the arrangem…

369. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration to set out the provisions of the updated IPAS house rules of June 2026 concerning the re-entry to reception and accommodation centres of residents who have consumed alcohol; whether the effect of these provisions is that such residents may be refused re-entry and required to remain outside the centre; the measures i…

370. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the engagement his Department has had with An Garda Síochána and South Dublin County Council regarding enforcement of bye-laws prohibiting the consumption of alcohol in public places in the vicinity of the Citywest Reception Centre; the steps being taken to strengthen the cultural orientation programme for centre re…

371. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration further to the redirection since 11 May 2026 of new international protection applications from the International Protection Office at Mount Street to the applications centre at the Citywest Reception Centre, Saggart, the projected increase in the daily number of applicants attending, and in the number of persons acc…

223. Deputy Robert O'Donoghue asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration whether, in light of the proposed new stamp 4 pathway for beneficiaries of temporary protection for Ukrainian nationals, consideration is being given to introducing a waiver, exemption or alternative eligibility criteria for applicants with documented long-term illnesses, disabilities or other significant heal…

605. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of international protection applications lodged; the number of first instance decisions issued by the International Protection Office; the number of appeals determined by the International Protection Appeals Tribunal, in each of the years 2021 to 2025 and to date in 2026, in tabular form; and if he…

623. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the median and longest processing times for first-instance international protection decisions in 2025, in the context of 13,146 applications received that year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49727/26]

624. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of international protection applicants currently accommodated in the Cork area; the number of IPAS accommodation centres operating in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49728/26]