Written answers
				Tuesday, 8 April 2025
  				
Department of Justice and Equality
				 
  - Departmental Data 
 690. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there are figures available detailing the number of speeding fines issued resulting from the decrease in speed limits in...
- Local Authorities 
 691. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of local authorities installing and operating CCTV systems in public parks and public spaces, following the issue...
- School Equipment 
 692. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the Cuan Consent education toolkit has been made available to all secondary schools; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Legislative Measures 
 694. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there is no doctor client privilege when using counselling notes in court cases involving sexual assault, abuse, violence,...
- Visa Applications 
 695. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 1576 of 23 July 2024, the status of an appeal for a visa for reunification; the timeline...
- Departmental Data 
 696. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide a schedule of all capital projects being delivered or which have been completed by his Department and...
- Online Safety 
 697. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of prosecutions directed under Coco’s Law in respect of image-based sexual abuse and cyberbullying,...
- Crime Prevention 
 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...
- An Garda Síochána 
 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...
- Departmental Data 
 701. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the average waiting time for an application for Garda vetting to be processed. [16813/25]
- Departmental Staff 
 702. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of posts of detective inspector within the Dublin Metropolitan Region that are currently filled; and the number of...
- Departmental Inquiries 
 703. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 578 of 18 February 2025, if he has received the necessary information from the Garda...
- Departmental Data 
 705. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of new roads policing unit motorcycles that came into the fleet in the years of 2023, 2024 and to-date in 2025; and...
- International Students 
 706. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if consideration will be given to reducing the €300 immigration registration fee paid by international students in third...
- Alcohol Sales 
 707. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when he plans to update the liquor licensing laws. [16899/25]
- Policing of Events 
 708. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current Garda guidelines for engaging with peaceful protests;; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16905/25]
- Visa Applications 
 709. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to address the delays of processing immigration applications, in particular the join family visa; and if he will make...
- Departmental Inquiries 
 710. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the case of a person (details supplied). [16916/25]
- Departmental Schemes 
 711. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps he is taking to encourage more people to consider mediation as a means of resolving disputes outside of the court...
- Departmental Data 
 712. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of requests submitted by the Garda divisional officer within Dublin north division requesting approval for extra...
- Departmental Funding 
 713. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when funding will be provided for the new Court House in Portlaoise; and can he give an update on this. [17034/25]
- Domestic Violence 
 714. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the provision of refuges for victims of domestic abuse in the nine counties that are without one including Laois;...
- Departmental Staff 
 715. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide a list with the job titles and salaries of all Ministerial staff, and Department private secretaries. [17059/25]
- Protected Disclosures 
 717. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide a schedule of the number of protected disclosures made to An Garda and GSOC from 1 January 2018 to date in in 2025;...
- Departmental Data 
 718. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of knives seized by Gardaí in each county in the State in each of the past ten years, in tabular form. [17136/25]
- Domestic Violence 
 727. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of times Gardaí have been called to the scene of domestic violence in each of the past ten years, and to date...
- Prison Service 
 728. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of prisoners who have died in the State in each of the past ten years, and to date in 2025. [17146/25]
- International Protection 
 729. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality whether the confidentiality provisions of the International Protection Act 2015 allow individual international protection...
- Crime Prevention 
 730. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of juvenile liaison officers in the State, by Garda division. [17279/25]
- Restorative Justice 
 731. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of instances in which a juvenile liaison officer has utilised the restorative justice mechanism with a case in 2024...
- Local Authorities 
 732. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when his Department will issue instructions to local authorities regarding the commencement of local community safety...
- Departmental Schemes 
 733. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the allocation to the criminal injuries compensation scheme from 2015 to date; the number of payments made; the date by which...
- Departmental Data 
 736. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of crimes that were recorded where the suspected offenders were minors on bail in each of the past three years, by...
- Departmental Schemes 
 737. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the average processing time of applications to the criminal injuries compensation scheme in the years 2015 to date, by year, in...
- Departmental Data 
 738. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the details of the number of anti-social behaviour orders, broken-down by adult and minor orders, for each district in the...
- An Garda Síochána 
 739. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount spent on purchasing additional Garda public order equipment in 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form. [17393/25]
- Immigration Support Services 
 740. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his Department will provide advice and information to two elderly Palestinians (details supplied) who arrived in Ireland in...
- Departmental Schemes 
 741. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of outstanding applications to the criminal injuries compensation scheme which, since the point of initial...
- Naturalisation Applications 
 743. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of plans to improve his Department’s online system for the submission of additional documents for...
- Departmental Properties 
 745. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his Department has any vacant or derelict buildings in Dublin-Rathdown; to provide the addresses of these buildings and...
- An Garda Síochána 
 746. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of fixed charge notices issued to motor vehicle owners in respect of motor vehicles registered outside of the State...
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