Probation and Welfare Service

566. Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration for an update on the bail supervision service since its transfer from the Garda to the probation service; the yearly cost for running the service; the counties in which the service is available; the number of young people who have used the service in 2025 and to date in 2026; and if he will make a statement on the mat…

308. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the changes that have taken place between youth diversion (YDP) programme and the probation service, given that youths going through the YDP no longer access the probation service. [8859/26]

766. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of probation staff in each probation area for each of the years 2005, 2010, 2015, 2020 and 2025. [4362/26]

767. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of probation staff vacancies in each probation area. [4404/26]

1316. Deputy John Paul O'Shea asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration for an update on the filling of a post (details supplied) in the Probation Service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59200/25]

679. Deputy Tom Brabazon asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration his plans to visit a service (details supplied) before the end of 2025. [54617/25]

706. Deputy John Paul O'Shea asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of persons involved in community service orders and other schemes under the guidance of the probation service, by county, and numbers involved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54960/25]

68. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration given reports that the probation services worked with 17,000 people last year with about 500 staff, how his Department will expand community service orders without overwhelming probation and setting the policy up to fail; the additional funding, training and supports that are being ring-fenced; and the timeline for i…

87. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration given the Judicial Council noted in 2022 that 23% of community service assessments did not convert into community services orders (the main reasons for this being a lack of available work in the community in a given area or at a given time, or that the individual was unable to cooperate due to being in employment, ch…

415. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration to list the location of each probation service team across the country, and the staffing allocation per grade, for each service in 2025. [53372/25]

416. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration to list the location of each probation service team in Dublin, and the staffing allocation per grade, for each service in 2020 to 2025. [53373/25]

703. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of funded positions in young person’s probation; the number of filled positions in young person’s probation between the years 2020 to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51652/25]

1658. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration further to Parliamentary Question No. 208 of 9 April 2025, if he will outline the initial estimated cost and delivery timeframe of the unified case management system; the current estimated delivery timeframe; the current estimated total cost to completion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46404/25]

1714. Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if there is a written grant agreement or service level agreement in place between his Department and the probation services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47531/25]

1715. Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of referrals received by the probation services and to list the top 20 categories, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47532/25]

2026. Deputy John Brady asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if he plans to change children's probation services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42207/25]

2027. Deputy John Brady asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if funding will be made available for a specific youth justice probation worker in Wicklow; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42208/25]

12. Deputy Paul McAuliffe asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration further to a Topical Issue raised on 19 October 2023, if he will outline the current total number of allegations of child sexual abuse involving any member of the Probation Service that he or his Department have been made aware of; if he has considered putting in place a non-adversarial redress scheme, if appropri…

351. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of people referred to the probation service for a community service report who were found by that report to be unsuitable for community service and were subsequently not sentenced to an immediate term of imprisonment, in 2022, 2023 and 2024, in tabular form. [33423/25]

307. Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Justice the number of minors who engaged with Young Persons Probation services in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28098/25]

326. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Justice if he will provide an outline of any deradicalisation programmes directed by the Probation Service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22395/25]

1579. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Justice the number of women specific services funded by the Probation Service; the number of Probation Service-funded services and projects that work directly with women leaving prison; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19668/25]

1580. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Justice whether all services and projects funded by the Probation Service are subject to service level agreements (SLA) with the Probation Service; the frequency with which these SLAs are reviewed and updated; to set out the procedure for the assessment of gender-specific services in terms of meeting their objectives; and if he will make a statement …

1630. Deputy Tom Brabazon asked the Minister for Justice the number of service users that have used the probation services at a location (details supplied), in each of the past three years and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [20845/25]

206. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice for all details of guidelines in relation to the imposition of post-release supervision orders for sex offenders; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18035/25]