Parliamentary questions

Vacant Properties

Peadar Tóibín

187. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the amount of money that has been paid out under the vacant property refurbishment grant scheme in each of the past ten years and to date in 2024. [24445/24]

Vacant Properties

Peadar Tóibín

188. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if any local authorities have drawn down money under the vacant property refurbishment grant scheme; if so, if he will list the local authorities; and the amount of grants and the total funding that each received in each of the past ten years and to date in 2024, in tabular form.
[24446/24]

Visa Applications

Peadar Tóibín

228. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice the number of successful applications for a holiday visa, a working visa or a student visa or any other visa for each of the past ten years; and the breakdown of the top 15 countries in each cohort. [24514/24]

Ambulance Service

Peadar Tóibín

242. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1440 of 9 April 2024, if he will provide an update on the current status of the National Ambulance Service recruitment process; the expected timeline for further communication or placements for those on the current panel; if the HSE embargo is having an impact on the recruitment and placement process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24434/24]

School Transport

Peadar Tóibín

79. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Education further to Parliamentary Question No. 57 of 24 April 2024, if she will reply to an email submitted to her office (details supplied) regarding school transport in County Meath; and the actions taken to secure school transport for the students concerned commencing from September 2024. [24171/24]

Prison Service

Peadar Tóibín

229. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice the plans to alleviate the crisis of prisoner overcrowding for prisoners and staff where there has been a substantial increase in the prison population in all prisons countrywide, and in view of the plans for Thornton Hall to be used for IPAS, which was originally intended as a site for a new prison; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23343/24]

Prison Service

Peadar Tóibín

230. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice the number of male and female prisoners in each prison; the number of prison rooms per each prison; and the number occupying each prison room in each of the past five years, in tabular form. [23344/24]

An Garda Síochána

Peadar Tóibín

119. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice the number of operations conducted under Operation Sonnet from 2023 to date; the number people sent back across the Border; the number of personnel working in the GNIB that have been involved in these operations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23126/24]

Departmental Data

Peadar Tóibín

342. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of houses that have been purchased in each local authority where tenants had received a notice to quit in each year. [22470/24]

Departmental Data

Peadar Tóibín

343. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of houses that have been purchased with the use of a local authority home loan in each local authority in each year. [22471/24]

Housing Provision

Peadar Tóibín

344. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the core targets for each local authority in terms of house building; and the number that have been built in each local authority to date. [22472/24]

Housing Provision

Peadar Tóibín

345. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the reason core targets for house building are being enforced as caps. [22483/24]

Asylum Applications

Peadar Tóibín

425. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice the number of persons that applied for asylum in each of the past ten years who gained entry to the country by way of a holiday visa, a working visa or a student visa or any other visa. [22463/24]

Asylum Applications

Peadar Tóibín

426. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice the number of persons that applied for a holiday visa, a working visa or a student visa or any other visa for each of the past ten years; and the breakdown of the top 15 countries in each cohort. [22464/24]

Asylum Applications

Peadar Tóibín

427. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice the method her Department uses to confirm that a person visiting Ireland on a holiday visa, a working visa or a student visa or any other visa has left the country. [22465/24]

International Protection

Peadar Tóibín

502. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number, county location and cost of land purchases made by the Government in order to provide accommodation for asylum seekers and people from Ukraine in each of the past ten years. [22466/24]

Departmental Funding

Peadar Tóibín

528. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the amount of additional funding his Department has given to charities since December 2023 for the purpose of providing tents and sleeping bags to homeless asylum seekers (details supplied). [22841/24]

Medical Qualifications

Peadar Tóibín

656. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the number of places for medical students in Irish universities for each of the past ten years; and how many of these are used for international students. [22467/24]

Nursing Education

Peadar Tóibín

657. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the number of places for student nurses in Irish universities for each of the past ten years; and how many of these are used for international students. [22469/24]

Transport Policy

Peadar Tóibín

67. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Transport if he has any plans to introduce congestion charges in the State; and if he will outline how the charges would work. [15530/24]