Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

Visa Applications

Pádraig O'Sullivan

328. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Justice the number of applications that are currently being processed for the join family (sponsor is a spouse and Irish citizen) visa; the average processing time for a visa of this nature; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23596/24]

Visa Applications

Mary Lou McDonald

329. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Justice if she is aware of the case of a Palestinian woman (details supplied) who has fled from Gaza to join their family in County Dublin; and if she will take the necessary steps to support their visa application. [23606/24]

Court Procedures

Josepha Madigan

330. Deputy Josepha Madigan asked the Minister for Justice the measures that are being taken by her Department to modernise and update contempt of court laws; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23632/24]

Visa Applications

Michael Healy-Rae

331. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Justice when a decision will issue on a stamp 4 application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23655/24]

Visa Applications

James O'Connor

332. Deputy James O'Connor asked the Minister for Justice the status of a visa application (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23664/24]

Visa Applications

Bernard Durkan

333. Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for Justice if a change in visa status for a person (details supplied) can be reviewed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23676/24]

An Garda Síochána

Ged Nash

334. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Justice to provide figures relating to the number of members of An Garda Síochána serving in the community policing unit and the regular unit in Drogheda Garda station from 2017 to 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23721/24]

Immigration Policy

Paul Murphy

335. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Justice if she is aware of the negative impact that not being able to work or engage in any business, trade or profession is having on stamp 3 holders; if she will request her Department to review a document (details supplied); her views on whether it would help to provide to people on general employment permits the same rights as those on critical skills permits; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23752/24]

Tobacco Control Measures

John Paul Phelan

336. Deputy John Paul Phelan asked the Minister for Justice the details of the number of fines issued by the courts for offences relating to the sale of illicit tobacco and tobacco smuggling in 2022 and 2023 that have been paid; and the number that remain unpaid. [23787/24]

Naturalisation Applications

Aindrias Moynihan

337. Deputy Aindrias Moynihan asked the Minister for Justice when an application for naturalisation/citizenship for an individual (details supplied) will be completed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23831/24]

Work Permits

Pa Daly

338. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Justice if she would consider allowing the spouses of non-EU PhD students the right to work where they hold a stamp 2A permission. [23847/24]

Immigration Policy

Patrick Costello

339. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Justice for an update in relation to efforts to regularise the migration situation between Ireland and Georgia, particularly through the provision of visa waivers or work-related visas; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23954/24]

Crime Prevention

Patrick Costello

340. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Justice the steps she and her Department are taking to prevent further attacks on politicians, political candidates and campaigners; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23955/24]

Crime Prevention

Patrick Costello

341. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Justice the steps her Department is taking to monitor and combat the increasingly violent far right in Ireland and to prevent further violent actions by these individuals; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23957/24]

Work Permits

Holly Cairns

342. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Justice if the recent extension of stamp 1G permissions can be extended to spouses of non-EU PhD students, given the contribution such students make to the Irish economy and education sector. [23985/24]

An Garda Síochána

Sorca Clarke

343. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Justice the initial and ongoing training provided to members of An Garda Síochána and any civil support staff in communicating and interacting with individuals with ADHD and ASD. [24009/24]

Prison Service

Paul Murphy

344. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Justice the number of different cell or room types of accommodation for prisoners, by metric size, not including the sanitary annex, for all prisons and open centres in the prison estate, by individual prison (details supplied). [24074/24]

Prison Service

Paul Murphy

345. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Justice if she will amend the misleading figures supplied to the CPT in 2019 regarding capacity and inform the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment of the amendment. [24075/24]

Prison Service

Paul Murphy

346. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Justice the capacity for the total prison estate, having exact regard to the minimum recommendations of the European Prison Rules, not the IPS's calculation based on 'the bed capacity refers to the maximum number of beds which can be present/operational in a prison at any one time'. [24076/24]

Prison Service

Paul Murphy

347. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Justice in light of the then acting Minister for Justice’s direction to the Department of Justice in May 2023 to fast track the 39-year old recommendation of the 1/3rd Remission Regulation, and the current Minister's rescinding of such direction two weeks later, if she will now enact the regulation and reduce the 'record high-risk overcrowding', and avoid what her Department refers to 'a warning of violence in packed jails'. [24077/24]