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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (25 Feb 2025)

Carol Nolan: 643. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality 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...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (25 Feb 2025)

Carol Nolan: 644. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of applications made by An Garda Síochána for a section 63 order under the Criminal Justice Act 1994 in 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025; the numbers of orders granted during this timeframe; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7372/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (25 Feb 2025)

Carol Nolan: 647. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the expenditure incurred by An Garda Síochána in the 2024 training campaign for forensic collision investigators and the external organisations that were paid to run the training; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7413/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Youth Services (25 Feb 2025)

Carol Nolan: 751. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total youth service grant allocation to all 16 ETB in 2024, in tabular form; if she will seek to immediately increase grant allocation for the Laois Offaly Education Training Board to enable an increase in service-provision capacity; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7364/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (25 Feb 2025)

Carol Nolan: 843. To ask the Minister for Health to review the case of a child (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7226/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Parking Provision (27 Feb 2025)

Carol Nolan: 172. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of an application regarding a disabled parking disc for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8876/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Business Regulation (26 Feb 2025)

Carol Nolan: 92. To ask the Minister for Finance the measures being put in place to counteract black market activities in terms of unregistered or unlicenced beauticians and hairdressers working from home (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8308/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Fraud (26 Feb 2025)

Carol Nolan: 193. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if social media advertising in relation to black market activity is being monitored by social welfare inspectors in respect of hairdressers and beauticians working from their own homes who may also be in receipt of social welfare payments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8309/25]

Policing and Community Safety: Statements (Resumed) (5 Mar 2025)

Carol Nolan: I welcome the opportunity to speak on what has become an issue of major public and community concern. There can be no doubt that we are witnessing a significant escalation in knife-related incidents and antisocial behaviour and, in many cases, a rapid deterioration of respect for the rule of law. If you talk to communities or retailers away from the glare of the public spotlight, they will...

Seachtain na Gaeilge: Ráitis (5 Mar 2025)

Carol Nolan: Fuair mé freagra ar cheist parlaiminte cúpla seachtain ó shin ar cheist a bhain le Gaeilge mar ábhar scoile. Sa fhreagra sin, bhí ionadh orm nuair a chonaic mé na huimhreacha maidir le díolúintí atá faighte ag daltaí ar fud na tíre seo. I mo chontae féin, Contae Uíbh Fhailí, fuair 400 dalta díolúine ón...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Mar 2025)

Carol Nolan: Under the programme for Government, there is a commitment to balanced regional development, rightly so. However, in my county of Offaly, we are particularly disadvantaged given that we have endured the brunt of the just transition, with 53% of the job losses. This is coupled with the fact that Cardinal Health in Tullamore, the main town in the county, will see 315 job losses at the end of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (6 Mar 2025)

Carol Nolan: 408. To ask the Minister for Health if she will support funding for a self-powered wheelchair for a person (details supplied) with significant mobility issues and who is financially unable to access one from his own resources; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10341/25]

Report of the Housing Commission: Statements (Resumed) (19 Mar 2025)

Carol Nolan: Last year, the Parliamentary Budget Office published data on the number of households eligible for but not yet in receipt of social housing in my constituency of Offaly. The Parliamentary Budget Office analysis was based on what it would have cost to house the number of households on the social housing waiting lists, plus the households in receipt of the housing assistance payment. The cost...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (20 Mar 2025)

Carol Nolan: The new report by Home and Community Care Ireland, HCCI, on homecare waiting lists, which was covered in The Irish Times yesterday, reveals that 5,556 older people are waiting for homecare at the end of last year. The waiting list in CHO 8, which covers my constituency of Offaly and includes county Laois, rose steeply by 31% to 932 people waiting. This represents the second-highest waiting...

International Security and International Trade: Statements (20 Mar 2025)

Carol Nolan: Tá áthas orm an deis a fháil labhairt ar ráitis maidir le slándáil idirnáisiúnta agus trádáil idirnáisiúnta anseo inniu. We all want to see a settled and peaceful international order, not least because of the cost that usually occurs in terms of human life when there is no such order. I am also concerned about the blatant...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Staff (4 Mar 2025)

Carol Nolan: 179. To ask the Taoiseach the powers he has to promote, demote or dismiss permanent civil service staff within his Department, to transfer such staff to other Departments, or to make external appointments from outside the civil service to civil service positions, other than his special advisers and staff of his private office. [8978/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Extradition Arrangements (4 Mar 2025)

Carol Nolan: 183. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason the agreement between the State and Hong Kong in relation to the surrender of fugitive offenders, which entered into force on 14 January 2009, was suspended by his Department on 15 October 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8973/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Extradition Arrangements (4 Mar 2025)

Carol Nolan: 184. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason extradition treaties are required to be laid before Dáil Eireann; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8974/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (4 Mar 2025)

Carol Nolan: 185. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is aware of a new law introduced in South Africa which allows the expropriation of land without compensation and due process; his views on this matter; if such a policy is in line with international human rights law; if he or his predecessor has had any interaction with the government of South Africa in this regard; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid (4 Mar 2025)

Carol Nolan: 186. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the amount of overseas development aid which was directed to South Africa in each year from 2020 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8976/25]