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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (28 Feb 2023)

Patrick Costello: 386. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider extending access to child benefit payments to asylum seekers and those in direct provision; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9486/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (28 Feb 2023)

Patrick Costello: 431. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children currently in direct provision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9485/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Referendum Campaigns (28 Feb 2023)

Patrick Costello: 450. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will put forward a referendum to amend the language of the constitution to adopt gender neutral language, specifically the articles on the role of President, which refers to the role exclusively in the male form, thus recognising the fact that Ireland has had, to date, two female presidents, and such...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Policies (28 Feb 2023)

Patrick Costello: 464. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will, within the international protection system, distinguish victims of trafficking in accommodation in order that they can take trips home to see family, as part of their recovery and integration process. [10092/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Seekers (28 Feb 2023)

Patrick Costello: 470. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an update on the current timeframe for asylum applications to be processed; the number of asylum seekers waiting for a decision and length of time waiting for a decision; the number of asylum seekers who have appealed their application decision; the average length of time for an appeal; the steps being...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (28 Feb 2023)

Patrick Costello: 471. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide a breakdown of the current staffing numbers of the International Protection Appeals Tribunal; the number of full-time and part-time staff; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9482/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Aid (28 Feb 2023)

Patrick Costello: 472. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide a breakdown of the current staffing numbers of the Legal Aid Board; the number of full-time and part-time staff. [9483/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (28 Feb 2023)

Patrick Costello: 473. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide a breakdown of the number of international protection applicants who have been awarded labour market access permission; the number of international protection applicants who are awaiting a decision on labour market access permission; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9484/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Community Development Projects (28 Feb 2023)

Patrick Costello: 501. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an update on the work of the Cherry Orchard Implementation Board; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9828/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (28 Feb 2023)

Patrick Costello: 502. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí by rank in each Garda station in the Dublin south west regional division as of 1 February 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9829/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (28 Feb 2023)

Patrick Costello: 503. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an update on the work of the Garda Operation Préachán; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9830/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Bodies (28 Feb 2023)

Patrick Costello: 504. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an update on the work of the Expert Forum on Anti-Social Behaviour; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9832/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Human Trafficking (28 Feb 2023)

Patrick Costello: 519. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the statistics around identification of victims of trafficking for 2022 will be released by his Department. [10093/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Local Drugs Task Forces (28 Feb 2023)

Patrick Costello: 606. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the work of the Ballyfermot, canal communities, Dublin 12, and south-inner city drug and alcohol task forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9831/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with All-Ireland Cancer Research Institute (23 Feb 2023)

Patrick Costello: I was struck by the reference in Professor Gallagher's opening statement to the expected doubling of cancer incidence among our citizens in the next two decades. What is driving that? I assume the professor is talking about an increase in instances of cancer and not just improved detection and the fact that we are catching more cancers. Part of me is wondering what we should be doing. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with All-Ireland Cancer Research Institute (23 Feb 2023)

Patrick Costello: Not enough.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with All-Ireland Cancer Research Institute (23 Feb 2023)

Patrick Costello: That is the survival advantage. What Professor Lawler is saying is that those colorectal cancers would have occurred anyway. They might have just been picked up earlier and those patients might have survived. It seems from what he is saying here that there will be more colorectal cancer overall.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with All-Ireland Cancer Research Institute (23 Feb 2023)

Patrick Costello: Would it be right to say we are moving backwards in terms of prevention and public health?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with All-Ireland Cancer Research Institute (23 Feb 2023)

Patrick Costello: Okay. Certainly, there is greater work that needs to be done in terms of research and policy given this increasing incidence. It is an incidence that is increasing beyond what would be expected simply because of an ageing population.