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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (25 Apr 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 229. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a one-parent family payment or other allowance is payable in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18700/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Labour Market (25 Apr 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 230. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the options available for a first-time job applicant (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18702/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (25 Apr 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 231. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which the carer's allowance has been improved in recent times to meet requirements of more persons; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18707/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Priorities (25 Apr 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 233. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which satisfactory provision continues to be made for those retiring at 65 years of age; the extent of any recent progress in this area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18709/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (25 Apr 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 234. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total number of appeals currently in hand in respect of means-tested social welfare payments and non-means-tested payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18710/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Priorities (25 Apr 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 235. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which she continues to examine the situation whereby women who left full-time employment to care for a relative or family member and returned to the workforce with insufficient time to enable them to make the necessary contributions can meet the necessary contributions to qualify for a pension; and if she will...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (25 Apr 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 238. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total number of pension applications for contributory-related State pension received in each of the past five years to date; the number granted, refused or pending; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18714/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Priorities (25 Apr 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 239. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the degree to which her Department has in place an appropriate method for determination of eligibility for domiciliary care allowance, given the number of children who are now deemed eligible on the basis of special needs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18715/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality (25 Apr 2024)

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (25 Apr 2024)

Catherine Murphy: 241. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons that were successful at stages 1 and 2 of the Garda trainee application process in the past 20 years; the totality of applicants in the past 20 years to the Garda trainee recruitment programmes; the number of persons that took part in stage 1 of the process over that time period; and the number that took...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (25 Apr 2024)

Bríd Smith: 242. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there are plans to employ more staff or take additional steps to deal with the significant backlog of applications for visas, renewals and extensions that are taking a long time to process (details supplied); the steps her Department will take to reduce the unacceptable waiting times; and if she will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (25 Apr 2024)

Peter Fitzpatrick: 243. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the qualifying conditions to apply for Irish citizenship for those here on a stamp 4 visa seeking international protection; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18504/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (25 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 244. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will examine a visa case (details supplied). [18563/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (25 Apr 2024)

Catherine Murphy: 248. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the most up-to-date number of community gardaí deployed each year since 2018, by local authority; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18611/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Common Travel Area (25 Apr 2024)

Denis Naughten: 249. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the impact, if any, of Ireland's opt into the EU Migration Pact on the common travel area with the UK; if she will outline the dates and detail of her conversations with Home Office Secretary of State (details supplied); if she will outline the dates and detail of her officials meetings with their counterparts in the UK Home...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (25 Apr 2024)

Catherine Murphy: 250. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide a breakdown of the number of ethnicities, by type and by rank, represented in An Garda Síochána [18627/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (25 Apr 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 254. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current position in relation to the application for citizenship in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18685/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Family Law Cases (25 Apr 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 256. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will introduce the necessary changes to Irish family law to prevent the use of parental alienation pursuant to the appropriate provisions of family and child law; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18692/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (25 Apr 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 258. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which it might be possible to update a stamp 3 status to stamp 4 in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18694/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (25 Apr 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 261. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when residency status can be updated and rectified in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18697/24]