Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

Peace Commissioners

Michael Lowry

1084. Deputy Michael Lowry asked the Minister for Justice how frequently the list of peace commissioners is updated to reflect commissioners who have died, who have retired, surrendered or been removed from their peace commissioner appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13287/23]

Control of Firearms

Patricia Ryan

1085. Deputy Patricia Ryan asked the Minister for Justice if firearm certificates should be conditioned to specify the locations where the firearms can be used and whether firearms certificates should be conditioned to limit the use of the firearm to the purpose for which the firearms certificate was sought; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13288/23]

Domestic Violence

Darren O'Rourke

1086. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Justice the number of domestic violence liaison officers attached to each Garda division as of 10 March 2023 and 30 June 2021, in tabular form [13342/23]

An Garda Síochána

Darren O'Rourke

1087. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Justice the number of cases that each Garda divisional protective services unit has dealt with in 2021, 2022 and to-date in 2023, in tabular form. [13343/23]

An Garda Síochána

Darren O'Rourke

1088. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Justice if he will report on Garda Operation Stratus; the number of persons arrested and charged to date; the number of successful convictions obtained to date; and if this operation is still ongoing. [13345/23]

Human Trafficking

Patrick Costello

1089. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Justice the number of INIS staff that have training in relation to human trafficking awareness or human trafficking indicators; to what level this training is provided; if this training is provided on an ongoing basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13440/23]

Irish Sign Language

Ivana Bacik

1090. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Justice if he will report on the implementation of the Irish Sign Language Act 2017 by the Courts Service. [13491/23]

Irish Sign Language

Ivana Bacik

1091. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Justice if he will report on the implementation of the Irish Sign Language Act 2017 by the Prison Service. [13492/23]

Irish Sign Language

Ivana Bacik

1092. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Justice if he will report on the implementation of the Irish Sign Language Act 2017 by An Garda Síochána. [13493/23]

Irish Sign Language

Ivana Bacik

1093. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Justice if he will report on the implementation of the Irish Sign Language Act 2017 by the Legal Aid Board. [13494/23]

Visa Applications

Bernard Durkan

1094. Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for Justice further to Parliamentary Question No. 510 of 7 March 2023, if he will clarify the official date of receipt of a visa application in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13556/23]

Control of Firearms

Seán Canney

1095. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Justice if he is aware of the proposals by the Firearm Expert Committee to impose additional conditions (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13593/23]

An Garda Síochána

Pádraig O'Sullivan

1096. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Justice the number of gardaí assigned to each town in south Kildare in 2010, 2019 and to date in 2023, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13596/23]

Citizenship Applications

Bríd Smith

1097. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Justice the average processing times for citizenship applications (details supplied) in each of the years 2015 to date in 2023, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13617/23]

Citizenship Applications

Bríd Smith

1098. Deputy Bríd Smith asked the Minister for Justice if applications for all stages of citizenships are dealt with in chronological order in relation to when applications are made; if he will clarify that no recent applications have been acknowledged or have been processed to the e-vetting stage ahead of older applications made previously; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13618/23]

Child Protection

Mary Lou McDonald

1099. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Justice when he will introduce the Criminal Justice (Sexual Offences and Human Trafficking) Bill 2022 which was due to be published at the end of 2022; and if he is satisfied that the State is meeting its international legal obligations to children as it has still not ratified the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography. [13658/23]

Immigration Status

Michael Healy-Rae

1100. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Justice the status of an application (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13660/23]

Departmental Policies

Holly Cairns

1101. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Justice if he has engaged with the relevant stakeholders in relation to the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Justice Report on an Examination of the Present Approach to Sanctions for Possession of Certain Amounts of Drugs for Personal Use recommendation that 'the practice of cultivation of currently illicit substances at a modest, non-profit level be examined in light of above recommendations in order to regulate such activity'; if so, the steps that will be taken regarding same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13716/23]

Domestic Violence

Holly Cairns

1102. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Justice the steps he is taking in response to the Joint Committee on Justice Report on Women's Shelters and Domestic Abuse Refuges recommendation that funding for domestic violence services should be significantly increased (details supplied). [13717/23]

Female Genital Mutilation

Holly Cairns

1103. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Justice if he will outline the procedures in place to protect girls living in Ireland who are identified as being at risk of female genital mutilation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13718/23]

Female Genital Mutilation

Holly Cairns

1104. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Justice if fear, risk or experience of female genital mutilation is considered as a ground for asylum by the International Protection Office, in line with the requirement under the Istanbul Convention on preventing and combatting violence against women and domestic violence to interpret the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees in a gender-sensitive manner; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13719/23]

Female Genital Mutilation

Holly Cairns

1105. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Justice the mechanism that is in place to ensure coordination and cooperation between Government Departments, State agencies and NGOs with respect to addressing female genital mutilation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13720/23]

An Garda Síochána

Pádraig O'Sullivan

1106. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Justice if he will confirm the number of gardaí assigned to each town in south Kildare in 2010, 2019 and 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13726/23]

Departmental Records

Patrick Costello

1107. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Justice if he will release all his Departmental files to the National Archives regarding 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; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13750/23]

Immigration Policy

Colm Burke

1108. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Justice if his Department has plans to remove the visa requirement for Peruvians entering Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13768/23]

Family Reunification

Pa Daly

1109. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Justice if he will make a statement on applications for family reunification for programme refugees, including the number of staff he has allocated specifically to their processing. [13794/23]

An Garda Síochána

Alan Farrell

1110. Deputy Alan Farrell asked the Minister for Justice if he will provide the number of knives seized by gardaí in each county, in each of the years 2016 to 2022 and to date in 2023, respectively, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13802/23]

Data Protection

Seán Canney

1111. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Justice if he will commission a fully independent review of how to strengthen and reform the Data Protection Commission to ensure that it is fit for purpose; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13814/23]

An Garda Síochána

Darren O'Rourke

1112. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Justice if the Garda Reserve Strategy 2021 to 2025 guidelines are being implemented as outlined; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13828/23]

Departmental Staff

Ivana Bacik

1113. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Justice the number of staff employed by the Irish Immigration Service; and his plans to appoint additional staffing. [13829/23]

Citizenship Applications

Ivana Bacik

1114. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Justice his plans to institute a guaranteed timeframe for the completion of naturalisation applications; and his plans to clear the backlog in applications. [13830/23]

An Garda Síochána

Darren O'Rourke

1115. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Justice the number of Garda Reserves that are currently active in County Meath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13833/23]

Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence

Mary Lou McDonald

1116. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Justice if the programme for Government commitment to introduce domestic homicide reviews legislation can be delivered as he has yet to publish the study on familicide and domestic homicide reviews submitted to him in the summer of 2022; and if he remains committed to the zero tolerance policy as set out in the Third Strategy on Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence. [13835/23]

An Garda Síochána

Darren O'Rourke

1117. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Justice the number of Garda Reserves hired each year in County Meath since 2018, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13846/23]

Citizenship Applications

Paul Murphy

1118. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Justice if she is aware of the implications of the excessively long waiting time for those with pending citizenship applications from restrictions on getting mortgages to having professional, work-related restrictions; the current waiting time for an application; and the improvements his Department is putting in place to reduce this waiting time; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13864/23]

An Garda Síochána

Martin Kenny

1119. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Justice the number of gardaí who have resigned from An Garda Síochána, per month, in 2022, by county and rank, in tabular form. [13958/23]

An Garda Síochána

Martin Kenny

1120. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Justice the number of gardaí who have resigned from An Garda Síochána, by county and per month in January abd February 2023, in tabular form. [13959/23]

An Garda Síochána

Martin Kenny

1121. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Justice the current pay scale for rank-and-file members of An Garda Síochána. [13960/23]

An Garda Síochána

Martin Kenny

1122. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Justice the current pay scale for Garda civilian workers. [13961/23]

Online Safety

Holly Cairns

1123. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Justice the number of prosecutions made under the Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017; the number which led to successful convictions; and the specific crimes involved. [14017/23]

Online Safety

Holly Cairns

1124. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Justice if the steps he is taking to ensure that Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017 are sufficient to address the instances of deep fake image-based sexual abuse; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14018/23]

An Garda Síochána

Holly Cairns

1125. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Justice the steps he is taking to reform the Garda vetting process, including ensuring individuals to conduct one vetting check every three years which is valid for any relevant professional or voluntary roles within that time period, measures to enable individuals use the same vetting check for multiple bodies and organisations, an optional simplified renewal process whereby individuals need only add any address changes since their last vetting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14019/23]

An Garda Síochána

Catherine Murphy

1126. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice the number of Garda cars and vans attached to each Garda district within DMR as of 15 March 2023, in tabular form. [14039/23]

Road Traffic Offences

Catherine Murphy

1127. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice the number of vehicles seized by gardaí for having no insurance within Kildare Garda division in 2022, and to-date in 2023, in tabular form. [14040/23]

Naturalisation Applications

Brendan Howlin

302. Deputy Brendan Howlin asked the Minister for Justice further to Parliamentary Question No.462 of 14 November 2022 concerning a person (details supplied); if the application has been processed yet; if he will set out the expected timeframe for the completion of the consideration of this application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12079/23]

Immigration Policy

Matt Carthy

303. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice the number of joint applications made to the Immigrant Investor Programme; the amount invested or endowed, programme by year, country of origin, by the number of individuals involved in the joint application, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12110/23]

Immigration Policy

Matt Carthy

304. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice when the Immigrant Investor Programme will cease accepting any new applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12111/23]

Immigration Policy

Matt Carthy

305. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice if he is aware of any registered charity having been requested to make payments to third parties as a finders fee in relation to the Immigrant Investor Programme; the number of such instances brought to his attention; if related applicants to the programme were successful; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12112/23]

Naturalisation Applications

Bernard Durkan

306. Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for Justice if and when a person (details supplied) might be considered for naturalisation given that they continue in employment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12232/23]

Naturalisation Applications

Bernard Durkan

307. Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for Justice the current or likely position in relation to naturalisation in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12234/23]