Results 241-260 of 1,561 for speaker:Ken O'Flynn

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Applications (2 Oct 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: 341. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the measures in place in State-contracted accommodation centres to ensure that residents are not assisted by third parties in preparing fraudulent or coached asylum applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52788/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Applications (2 Oct 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: 363. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the safeguards currently in place within the International Protection Office to detect coached or rehearsed asylum claims; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52782/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Applications (2 Oct 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: 364. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of international protection applications since 2020 that have been refused, withdrawn, or deemed in admissible following concerns about fabricated, coached, or inconsistent testimony; if he will provide this data on an annual basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52783/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Applications (2 Oct 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: 365. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the nature of the training provided to International Protection Office caseworkers in order to identify coached or scripted interview responses; and if he is satisfied that these procedures are adequate. [52784/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Applications (2 Oct 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: 366. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his Department has identified the circulation of coaching documents, interview scripts, or similar materials for asylum applicants; the steps taken when such documents are discovered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52785/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Applications (2 Oct 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: 367. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the penalties or consequences for applicants who knowingly submit false or coached claims; and whether he intends to strengthen such measures to safeguard the integrity of the asylum system. [52786/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (2 Oct 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: 352. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons and the number of family units who have received financial assistance under the State’s voluntary return programme, each year since 2009 and the total grant amounts paid in each year. [52767/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (2 Oct 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: 353. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to specify the current maximum and minimum levels of financial assistance available to persons and family units under the voluntary return programme; and to confirm when these levels were last reviewed or amended. [52768/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (2 Oct 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: 354. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the average financial support paid per person and per family unit under the voluntary return programme in each of the past five years. [52769/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (2 Oct 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: 358. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality whether his Department has commissioned or received any independent evaluations or audits of the effectiveness of the voluntary return programme since its introduction in 2009; and if so, to make such reports publicly available. [52773/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Schemes (2 Oct 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: 355. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total administrative cost of operating the voluntary return programme in each of the past five years, including staffing, promotion and case management. [52770/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Schemes (2 Oct 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: 359. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the estimated cost per successful voluntary return in each of the past five years, including both grant support and administrative overheads, and to provide a comparison with the estimated cost of enforced deportations in the same period. [52774/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Schemes (2 Oct 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: 356. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of applications made to the voluntary return programme in each of the past five years, the number approved, the number refused; and the number of approved applicants who subsequently did not depart the State. [52771/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Schemes (2 Oct 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: 357. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the criteria and process used by his Department in assessing applications to the voluntary return programme; and the grounds on which applications are refused. [52772/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Schemes (2 Oct 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: 360. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the top ten countries of nationality of those availing of the voluntary return programme in each of the past five years; and the number of returns for each nationality. [52775/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Schemes (2 Oct 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: 361. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will commit to publishing an annual statistical report on the voluntary return programme, setting out in anonymised form the number of applicants, approvals, refusals, grant levels, nationalities involved, and overall expenditure. [52776/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (2 Oct 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: 452. To ask the Minister for Health the number of oncology drugs approved for use by the European Medicines Agency in each of the years 2020 to 2025; and to specify which of these are currently reimbursed under the public health system, which are only available privately, and the average waiting time from EMA approval to HSE reimbursement. [52823/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (2 Oct 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: 453. To ask the Minister for Health whether there are cancer drugs currently accessible to private patients in Ireland which are not reimbursed for public patients; and the steps being taken to eliminate this disparity in access. [52824/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (2 Oct 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: 454. To ask the Minister for Health the average time taken by the National Centre for Pharmacoeconomics and her Department to complete health technology assessments and reimbursement decisions on oncology drugs in the past three years; and whether target timelines exist to expedite access for public patients. [52825/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (2 Oct 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: 455. To ask the Minister for Health if her Department has entered into outcomes-based or risk-sharing agreements with pharmaceutical companies in respect of new cancer drugs; and if so, to provide details of the drugs concerned, the duration of the agreements, and the outcomes being measured. [52826/25]