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Fire Safety
Patrick Costello
889. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an update in relation to the provision of emergency funding for the remediation of fire safety, structural safety and water ingress defects in purpose-built apartment buildings, including duplexes, constructed between 1991 and 2013, given the recent fire in a non-compliant Navan apartment complex; how much funding will be made available in 2023; how it will be accessed; when the funding scheme will be accessible; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37867/23]
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Referendum Campaigns
Patrick Costello
908. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the proposed referendum on the right to housing will take place in 2023. [38371/23]
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Rental Sector
Patrick Costello
936. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage given the rent-a-room scheme has been extended to include social houses to avail of the €14,000 tax free benefit, if he will clarify the rules governing this extension, specifically relating to the requirement to disclose the tenant and seek pre-approval for the potential tenant and the minimum standards put in place for this extension and the enforcement mechanism for such standards. [38794/23]
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Rental Sector
Patrick Costello
937. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage given the rent-a-room scheme pre-approval functions are to be carried out and administered by county councils, the extent to which councils are getting involved in the selection of tenants and overseeing the process. [38795/23]
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Rental Sector
Patrick Costello
938. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for the rent-a-room scheme what are the minimum standards being introduced to ensure uptake of the scheme is done by homeowners with appropriate and suitable properties, similar to minimum standards associated with the rental of properties not included in the scheme. [38796/23]
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Rental Sector
Patrick Costello
939. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage in relation to the rent-a-room scheme, if the Government is nominating a dispute resolution mechanism for issues that might arise in the context of a tenancy relationship established through availing of the scheme; if this function is being extended to the Residential Tenancies Board; and the extra resources that the RTB will be offered by the Government to gain capacity to address such issues adequately. [38798/23]
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Social Welfare Code
Patrick Costello
1002. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will consider increasing the maximum hours those in receipt of carer's allowance are allowed to work each week; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37865/23]
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Social Welfare Code
Patrick Costello
1003. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will consider increasing the maximum weekly income allowances for the means test in relation to carer's allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37866/23]
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Departmental Records
Patrick Costello
1091. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Justice further to Parliamentary Question No. 1107 of 21 March 2023, if her Departmental files relating to the High Court, Supreme Court and European Court of Human Rights cases in relation to proposals for gay law reform which resulted in a landmark judgement and decriminalisation thirty years ago are going to be made publicly accessible; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37463/23]
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Departmental Expenditure
Patrick Costello
1097. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Justice for an itemised breakdown of the allocation and spending to date for the year 2023 of the Youth Justice funding; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37536/23]
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Departmental Expenditure
Patrick Costello
1098. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Justice for an itemised breakdown of the allocation and spending for the past five years of the Youth Justice funding; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37537/23]
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Prison Service
Patrick Costello
1099. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Justice for an update on the number of the 100 proposed additional prison officers who have been hired for the Irish Prison Service; the prisons to which they are assigned; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37538/23]
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An Garda Síochána
Patrick Costello
1100. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Justice for a breakdown, in tabular form, for the past ten years, of the total number of community gardaí; where they were located, by division and Garda station; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37539/23]
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Departmental Expenditure
Patrick Costello
1101. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Justice for an update on the allocations of the 2023 community safety innovation fund; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37540/23]
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Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
Patrick Costello
1102. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Justice for an update on the breakdown, in tabular form over the past ten years, by county, of safe refuge accommodation places for victims of domestic, sexual and gender-based violence; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37541/23]
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Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
Patrick Costello
1103. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Justice if, given the recent CSO data which outlined only "12% of people who experienced child sexual abuse disclosed it to gardaí" and only "5% of adults who experienced sexual violence as an adult and disclosed to gardaí", she will outline the measures she is taking to encourage victims of sexual violence to disclose details of these experiences to gardaí; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37542/23]
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Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
Patrick Costello
1104. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Justice for a breakdown of the numbers of domestic, sexual and gender-based violence cases reported to gardaí over the past ten years which have led to a successful court prosecution; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37543/23]
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Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
Patrick Costello
1105. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Justice for a breakdown, in tabular form, of the number and rank of gardaí assigned to the divisional protective service units (DPSUs) in each of the 28 Garda divisions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37544/23]
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Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
Patrick Costello
1106. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Justice for a breakdown, in tabular form, of domestic, sexual and gender-based violence offences data for the past ten years, broken down by Garda station, to include, but not limited to: coercive control; breach of interim barring order; breach of protection order; breach of barring order; breach of safety order; domestic - no offence identified; breach of emergency barring order; and any incident type with a recorded motive of 'domestic abuse'; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37545/23]
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Road Traffic Offences
Patrick Costello
1107. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Justice for an update on the breakdown, in tabular form, over the past ten years by Garda station and division, of the number of road traffic offences such as, but not limited to, speeding; careless driving; dangerous driving; using your mobile phone while driving; drink driving; drug driving;and dangerously defective driving; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37546/23]