1378. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the plans in place in her Department to deal with IPAS accommodation now that the total numbers in IPAS have surpassed 33,000; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11536/25]
Topics / International Protection
A subject heading for parliamentary questionsInternational Protection
1,252 questions from 100 TDs, between 22 January 2025 and 22 October 2026.
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1,243 written, 9 oral
100
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Independents counted together
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| January 2025 | 9 |
| February 2025 | 83 |
| March 2025 | 26 |
| April 2025 | 73 |
| May 2025 | 78 |
| June 2025 | 33 |
| July 2025 | 70 |
| August 2025 | 0 |
| September 2025 | 112 |
| October 2025 | 48 |
| November 2025 | 140 |
| December 2025 | 79 |
| January 2026 | 52 |
| February 2026 | 65 |
| March 2026 | 31 |
| April 2026 | 48 |
| May 2026 | 97 |
| June 2026 | 74 |
| July 2026 | 47 |
| August 2026 | 0 |
| September 2026 | 39 |
| October 2026 | 48 |
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1386. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps taken by her Department when deciding on the location of an international protection accommodation services centre; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11683/25]
1387. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the criteria that must be met when an individual applies for an international protection accommodation services contract; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11684/25]
1388. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if residency of tenants in a building earmarked for an international protection accommodation services centre is considered during the process of its founding; if tenants are consulted on the establishment of said centre; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11685/25]
1389. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if tenants evicted due to the earmarking of an international protection accommodation services centre are offered pathways back to residency in that dwelling if a centre is ultimately not established; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11686/25]
1393. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason a hotel (details supplied), as an IPAS accommodation centre, is not currently subject to HIQA inspection; if there are plans to bring this facility under the inspection regime of HIQA; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11728/25]
1431. Deputy Eoghan Kenny asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the accommodation recognition payment is to remain; if so, if it is to be decreased; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12326/25]
364. Deputy Joe Neville asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 311 of 20 February 2025, how a decision was made to award the contract in question since demonstrating compliance with planning law was a mandatory requirement of his Department’s own request for tender and as it would have been evident to his Department that this requirement coul…
596. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a location (details supplied) has been earmarked as a site intended for an International Protection Accommodation Services site; if there will be community consultation regarding same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9813/25]
630. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if her Department received an offer from a person (details supplied) for an International Protection Accommodation Services centre at a location (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9814/25]
258. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of an application for an accommodation centre (details supplied); if community consultation will form part of any considerations of this application; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8584/25]
130. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if it is her intention to use the Pobal HP Deprivation index as part of the process of identifying suitable locations for IPAS centres. [7762/25]
131. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth her Department’s plans to actively engage with communities before opening IPAS centres in their areas; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7761/25]
617. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice the number of applicants for IPAS who reached the State via the north of Ireland last year and for each of the past five years. [7132/25]
618. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice the number of applicants for IPAS registered at the airports, ports and the IPO respectively, in 2024 and for each of the past five years. [7133/25]
619. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice the number of applicants for IPAS that have used the courts to appeal. [7134/25]
620. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice the amount the IPAS applicant process has cost for each of the past five years. [7135/25]
621. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice the amount the International Protection Appeals Tribunal has spent on external decision-making services in each of the past five years. [7136/25]
622. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice the amount the total International Protection Appeals Tribunal has cost in each of the past five years. [7137/25]
623. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice how the average length of time the IPAS application process taken for each of the past five years; the length of time the longest IPAS application process has taken for each of the past five years. [7138/25]
625. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice the number of checks for asylum seekers that have been undertaken along the border with the north of Ireland by the Gardaí, for each month, for the past five years. [7141/25]
642. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice whether he will permit this Deputy to visit the International Protection Office to see the operation and to ask questions of the staff. [7368/25]
643. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Justice the purpose of having presenting officers present at international protection appeal hearings; the number of times a presenting officer was present during an appeal in 2024, in the context of the overall number of appeals that were heard; if there has been a change in his Department’s policy to not have a presenting officer present for every appeal; if so, the re…
681. Deputy Mattie McGrath asked the Minister for Justice the full vetting process of all those seeking international protection in the State; the way international protection applicants and asylum seekers can be granted asylum in the State if they have been charged with a criminal offence in another EU jurisdiction; the way the vetting process works or may have failed in such a scenario; how the GNIB has said that t…
683. Deputy Mattie McGrath asked the Minister for Justice the actions taken when a person seeking international protection is found guilty of a crime in this State; if such persons will have their leave to remain in the state revoked and be deported; the reason there has been evidence of instances of international protection applicants being involved in crime and released on bail; the number of international protecti…