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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services (28 May 2025)

Matt Carthy: I thank the Minister of State. The truth of the matter is that disability services in my constituency are an actual embarrassment. I am embarrassed, as an elected representative, when dealing with parents who are at their absolute wit's end trying to be all things to their children. As well as being parents, they are also expected in some cases to be teachers. They are absolutely expected...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services (28 May 2025)

Matt Carthy: I thank the Minister of State for being here. Last week, the Dáil debated the motion in respect of the assessment of need scandal, as I would describe it, where Government is flagrantly breaching the law on a daily basis in terms of providing assessment of need for children with disabilities in particular. What might have got lost in that scandal is that for many families of children...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Contracts (28 May 2025)

Matt Carthy: 302. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will review the process that facilitated the directors of a company (details supplied) paying its directors a combined €4.6 million in 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27936/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (28 May 2025)

Matt Carthy: 309. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total accommodation capacity of the Garda training college; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28330/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (28 May 2025)

Matt Carthy: 310. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he has considered increasing the Garda retirement age to 65; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28339/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (28 May 2025)

Matt Carthy: 311. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he has examined the potential impact on the numbers of Gardaí in An Garda Síochána of increasing the Garda age of retirement to 65; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28340/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (28 May 2025)

Matt Carthy: 312. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the impact in terms of Garda numbers that was achieved as a result of increasing the Garda retirement to 62; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28341/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (28 May 2025)

Matt Carthy: 313. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the annual cost of employing 1000 additional Gardaí; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28342/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic Violence (28 May 2025)

Matt Carthy: 314. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the average capital cost of delivering a domestic violence refuge; the average annual cost of running a domestic violence refuge; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28343/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (28 May 2025)

Matt Carthy: 315. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the annual spend on reintegration grants for voluntary returns; the numbers who have availed of this in each of the past five years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28344/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (28 May 2025)

Matt Carthy: 316. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality in tabular form the number of no shows at each stage of the international protection system in each of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28345/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (28 May 2025)

Matt Carthy: 317. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he has carried out any review of the suitability of a premises (details supplied) to provide IPAS accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28348/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (28 May 2025)

Matt Carthy: 318. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to outline each step of the process of adjudicating the suitability of a company to provide IPAS accommodation; how this is determined if the company has been newly formed and has no previous track record in the provision of such accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28349/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (28 May 2025)

Matt Carthy: 319. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide details for each incident in the past five years where a company that had not had previous track record in the provision of asylum accommodation was a given contract to do so including the amount which they were paid in their first contract, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28350/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (28 May 2025)

Matt Carthy: 320. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of IPAS accommodation centres that are located in residential houses with less than five bedrooms; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28351/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (28 May 2025)

Matt Carthy: 321. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the details of all IPAS accommodation contracts that were terminated in the past five years and the reason for the termination, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28352/25]

Restrictive Financial Measures (State of Israel) Bill 2025: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 May 2025)

Matt Carthy: I have said on multiple occasions in this House that Israel would continue to do what it is doing until the world forces it to stop. I was actually so far wrong, it is unbelievable. Israel has not continued to do what it was doing. What we are actually finding out is that the failure of the world to say "Stop" has resulted in Israel becoming even more depraved, gruesome and inhumane in its...

Apology to Shane O'Farrell and his Family: Statements (27 May 2025)

Matt Carthy: To use that Irish phrase, I knew Shane O'Farrell to see but I had never spoken with him. It is one of my regrets that I did not get to know the man in life that I now feel I know well - the good-looking, talented, popular young man from my home town of Carrickmacross. Conversely, I regret that I have had to get to know his family so well. I regret that because it is only because of what...

Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Election of Leas-Chathaoirleach (27 May 2025)

Matt Carthy: We have a procedural item to deal with - the election of the Leas-Chathaoirleach. I remind members that the committee may choose to elect a Leas-Chathaoirleach who can perform the duties and exercise the authority of the Cathaoirleach in his or her absence. It was agreed at our previous meeting that nominations for the position of Leas-Chathaoirleach of the Committee on Justice, Home...