Results 21-40 of 10,762 for speaker:Matt Carthy

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (9 Apr 2025)

Matt Carthy: 202. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality in view of the fact that it is a requirement that applicants to join An Garda Síochána must be proficient in Irish or English to outline the purpose of providing leaflets for the 2025 Garda Recruitment campaign in multiple other languages; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18013/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Victim Support Services (9 Apr 2025)

Matt Carthy: 203. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to outline the details of all supports in place for victims of rape, sexual assault and childhood sexual abuse to support them from when they make an initial complaint, through the judicial process, and up to and including the release of offenders; the process in place for making victims aware of these supports; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Victim Support Services (9 Apr 2025)

Matt Carthy: 204. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the financial supports available to victims of crime and witnesses to cover the costs of travel to court and for accommodation where they are required to be available to attend court for a period of days; the annual budgetary allocation for these supports; if these supports are available in a consistent manner across the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (9 Apr 2025)

Matt Carthy: 205. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will consider introducing a provision whereby survivors of rape, sexual assault and childhood sexual abuse can apply for a civil protection order against their abuser where such a convicted offender is being released from prison and they are in fear for their safety; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18034/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Probation and Welfare Service (9 Apr 2025)

Matt Carthy: 206. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality 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]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Probation and Welfare Service (9 Apr 2025)

Matt Carthy: 207. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of times a post-release supervision order has been put in place for sex offenders in each of the past five years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18036/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Probation and Welfare Service (9 Apr 2025)

Matt Carthy: 209. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the percentage of sex offenders released from jail in the past five years who have been subject to a post-release supervision order, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18038/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Probation and Welfare Service (9 Apr 2025)

Matt Carthy: 208. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of sex offender orders put in place in each of the past five years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18037/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Data (9 Apr 2025)

Matt Carthy: 210. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the percentage of sex offenders released from prison who had availed of therapeutic services aimed at reducing the likelihood of re-offending, for each of the past five years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18039/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (8 Apr 2025)

Matt Carthy: I congratulate the Minister of State on his appointment. To give him some background, last January, I organised a public meeting for families and children with disabilities. We were specifically told by the NCSE at that stage that there were no plans for a special school in Monaghan. For months thereafter, we were told there was a process to decide the locations of special schools, yet no...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (8 Apr 2025)

Matt Carthy: As the Minister of State is aware, parents slept outside the gates of Leinster House last week demanding the most basic of human rights, that is, a school place for their child. I met them. I do not know whether the Minister of State got the opportunity to do so but if he did, he would have heard horror stories of children being left behind by the Government and a failed system. I was...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (8 Apr 2025)

Matt Carthy: 107. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students that will be enrolled into the interim special school in County Monaghan in September 2025; if there is capacity at the site of that school to increase enrolment numbers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17182/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (8 Apr 2025)

Matt Carthy: This time last year, we were told there was no need for a special school in County Monaghan. It took a sustained and dignified campaign by families of children with disabilities, which others and I were proud to support, to lead to the announcement that an interim special school would open in Castleblayney this coming September. Will the Minister of State give an assurance that every child...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Apr 2025)

Matt Carthy: The Taoiseach may have seen reports in the Irish Daily Mail on protected disclosure which detail how confiscated weapons, including automatic firearms, ammunition and explosives, were being held at Garda headquarters in a container secured by a very simple combination lock. The report suggests that much of the weaponry is undocumented and therefore untraceable. Does the Taoiseach agree that...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committees (8 Apr 2025)

Matt Carthy: 78. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Justice, Migration and Social Affairs will meet next. [13735/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (8 Apr 2025)

Matt Carthy: 176. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of expressions of interest that have sought to secure a place for a child in the interim special school in County Monaghan; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17183/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Official Engagements (8 Apr 2025)

Matt Carthy: 233. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the details of all official engagements and meetings attended by him, and Ministers of State within his Department, on the week ending Sunday, 23 March; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17513/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disadvantaged Status (8 Apr 2025)

Matt Carthy: 534. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 435 of 1 April 2025, the process that was used to determine the DEIS status of a school (details supplied); if there is a mechanism whereby the school can appeal the decision to exclude a school from the DEIS band 1 programme considering all other schools in the catchment area are within that programme;...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Crime Prevention (8 Apr 2025)

Matt Carthy: 699. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the previous Dáil’s knife crime sub-group of the expert forum on anti-social behaviour, raised any issues in relation to the stop and search powers of Gardaí with respect to knife crime; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16745/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (8 Apr 2025)

Matt Carthy: 700. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when he expects to receive an updated analysis of knife crime from An Garda Síochána, similar to that produced in 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16746/25]