Written answers

Tuesday, 5 November 2019

  • Immigration Controls
    279. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a single point of contact on migrant smuggling has been appointed as per the EU Action Plan against migrant smuggling...
  • Human Trafficking
    280. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the preventative measures in place at ports here to detect instances of migrant smuggling; and the planned changes or...
  • Paramilitary Groups
    285. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he has discussed the increased paramilitary activity with his UK counterpart. [45241/19]
  • Courts Service Data
    286. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the necessary steps for a person to access the digital audio recording of a court proceeding regarding themselves; the average...
  • Illegal Fireworks
    287. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will consider strengthening the law to prevent the illegal or reckless use of fireworks and deal with the rise in the...
  • Garda Deployment
    288. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of staff assigned to the Garda National Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau in each year since its establishment in...
  • Garda Data
    289. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of times support has been sought from and provided under the drug-related intimidation reporting programme since it...
  • Asylum Applications Data
    290. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the breakdown of the nationality of those seeking asylum being accommodated in Mosney; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Youth Services Expenditure
    291. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the breakdown of spending under the Irish Youth Justice Service community programmes budget for 2019; and if he will make a...
  • Immigration Status
    292. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to address the needs of undocumented children and young persons living here; if he is considering a pathway to...
  • Public Inquiries
    293. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of a scoping exercise in a case (details supplied); if terms of reference regarding an inquiry have been changed;...
  • Criminal Assets Bureau
    294. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of legal professionals seconded to the Criminal Assets Bureau in each of the years 2016 to 2018 and to date in 2019;...
  • Garda Data
    296. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of inspectors appointed under the drug-related intimidation reporting programme to respond to the issue of drug...
  • Direct Provision Expenditure
    297. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the cost of the direct provision system in each of the years 2014 to 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44428/19]
  • Asylum Applications Data
    298. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of asylum seekers granted refugee status in each of the years 2014 to 2018; the success rate in percentage terms...
  • State Bodies Establishment
    300. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the Mediation Council of Ireland will be established under the relevant mediation legislation; and if he will make a...
  • Human Trafficking
    302. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he has met the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to discuss migrant smuggling and the preventative measures needed...
  • Refugee Resettlement Programme
    304. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons brought here under the EU relocation and the UNHCR-led refugee resettlement programmes who are living in...
  • Direct Provision Data
    305. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons residing in direct accommodation who have been granted an international protection status or a permission...
  • Consultancy Contracts Expenditure
    306. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the overall budget allocated for the project regarding fees paid to a consultancy in respect of the reorganisation of his...
  • Garda Data
    307. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí by rank that have been subject to disciplinary proceedings in 2017, 2018 and to date in 2019; and if...
  • Garda College
    309. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if an investigation was commenced in 2017 by OLAF, the European Anti-Fraud Office, into spending at the Garda Training College,...
  • Court Judgments
    310. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the impact a Court of Appeal decision (details supplied) will have on applicants whose applications were refused by him without...
  • Direct Provision Data
    311. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons being accommodated in direct provision; the length of time they have been in direct provision in tabular...
  • Human Trafficking
    314. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he discussed the 39 deaths in Essex with his counterpart in the UK; if they discussed port security on both sides of the...
  • Legislative Reviews
    317. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the details of each review of the incitement to hatred legislation that has been carried out or commissioned by his Department...
  • Legal Aid Service Data
    318. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the way in which funds for the free legal aid service are distributed nationally by law centre in each of the past four years;...
  • Crime Data
    319. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the way in which crime statistics and figures are published; if he will consider a more localised system of statistics based on...
  • Information and Communications Technology
    320. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of computers in his Department that still use an operating system (details supplied) in tabular form; and if he will...
  • Garda Transport Data
    323. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda cars in use in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44766/19]
  • Garda Data
    324. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda attached to the human trafficking investigation and co-ordination unit in each year since 2014, in tabular...
  • Naturalisation Certificates
    325. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to review applications (details supplied) in view of a ruling; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44796/19]
  • Garda Data
    326. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda in the Clondalkin division; the number of vacancies that exist in the division; the rank or level of the...
  • Departmental Staff Data
    327. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of full and part-time staff employed in his Department; the number of such staff being paid at the minimum wage rate...
  • Departmental Budgets
    328. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount of the €265 million identified in budget 2020 as selected capital measures to be allocated to the Military...
  • Garda Expenditure
    329. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the cost incurred by An Garda Síochána to pay for storage of seized vehicles in each of the years 2016 to 2018 and to...
  • Road Traffic Offences Data
    330. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of drivers that have been caught driving while holding a mobile phone in each of the years 2015 to 2018 and to date...
  • Fines Data
    331. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the value of fines collected for driving while holding a mobile phone in each of the years 2015 to 2018 and to date in 2019;...
  • Direct Provision System
    332. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a social support worker has been assigned to the temporary direct provision centre (details supplied); and if he will make a...
  • Asylum Seekers
    333. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of asylum seekers returned to Zimbabwe in each of the years 2012 to 2015. [44917/19]
  • Garda Data
    334. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Gardaassigned to the drugs and organised crime unit in County Louth in each of the years 2016 to 2018 and to date...
  • National Drugs Strategy Implementation
    335. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the manner in which the national drugs strategy will be implemented across the State and in County Louth; and the agencies...
  • Domestic Violence
    337. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the funding allocated to agencies in County Louth which work with survivors of domestic abuse in each of the years 2016 to 2018...
  • Garda Training
    338. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the training given to probationary and fully qualified members of An Garda Síochána to deal with incidences of...
  • Domestic Violence Policy
    340. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the locations of perpetrator programmes for persons convicted of domestic abuse crimes; and the funding allocated to these...
  • Commencement of Legislation
    341. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the sections of the Judicial Council Act 2019 in relation to the establishment of a judicial council and a personal...
  • Immigration Status
    342. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the residency status of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44984/19]
  • Garda Data
    343. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda,by rank, attached to each divisional roads policing unit as of 29 October 2019, in tabular form. [44997/19]
  • Garda Transport Data
    344. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda vehicles attached to each Garda collision forensic investigation unit as of 29 October 2019. [44998/19]
  • Garda Data
    345. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the members of An Garda Síochána currently on sick leave; if a breakdown will be provided of the details of sworn...
  • Garda Compensation
    347. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of outstanding cases of workplace compensation claims with An Garda Síochána by year in the past five...
  • Garda Station Refurbishment
    348. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of Emyvale Garda station further to a fire which caused extensive damage at the station ; if funding will be...
  • Consultancy Contracts Data
    349. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the details of contracts of €25,000 or more that have been awarded by his Department or bodies under his aegis that were...
  • Commencement of Legislation
    350. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the sections and subsections of the Disability Act 2005 that remain uncommenced; and the reason in each case they have not been...
  • Personal Insolvency Act
    352. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to change the date of 1 January 2015 in section 115A(18)(b)(i) of the Personal Insolvency Act 2012, as inserted by...
  • Direct Provision Expenditure
    353. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the contract and refurbishment costs incurred to date on providing direct provision accommodation at a location (details...
  • Dublin-Monaghan Bombings
    354. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount of compensation awarded to families and relatives of the victims of the Dublin and Monaghan bombings; the process by...
  • Legislative Measures
    355. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he is satisfied that there is sufficient legislation to deal with the use of drones to observe properties for the purposes...
  • Naturalisation Applications
    356. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of naturalisation applications on hand; the number of applications by the country of each applicant; the number of...
  • Proposed Legislation
    357. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the stage of legislation promised by his predecessor regulating the sale for cash of scrap and precious metals; the steps he...
  • Garda Youth Diversion Projects
    358. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the level of funding provided to each county for youth diversion programmes in each of the years 2016 to 2018 and to date in...
  • Garda Resources
    359. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí attached to the Garda commercial vehicle unit; and the number of Garda vehicles attached to the unit...
  • Garda Deployment
    360. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of additional gardaí attached to DMR north that have been trained as divisional asset profilers during 2018 and...
  • Visa Applications
    361. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of short stay C visa applications awaiting a decision; and the expected waiting period from submitting an...
  • Garda Information and Communications Technology
    363. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the Garda stations not connected to the PULSE system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45322/19]
  • Gambling Legislation
    364. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress of the gambling control Bill; the stage it is now at; when the Bill will be enacted; and if he will make a...
  • Legal Aid Service Data
    365. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons that have received civil legal aid from the Legal Aid Board since 1 October 2018 in order to proceed with...
  • Drug Treatment Programmes Data
    366. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of prisoners on methadone treatment in each prison nationally; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45384/19]
  • Garda Vetting
    367. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the average waiting time for a person going through the Garda vetting process; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Legal Services Regulation
    369. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps being taken to tackle the lack of regulation of immigration consultants that purport to provide legal advice to...
  • Insurance Fraud
    371. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a Garda unit will be established to tackle fraudulent insurance claims arising from the report by the Cost of Insurance...

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