327. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Education and Youth for a list of all the post-primary schools in the Drumcondra and Marino, Dublin 1 SPA; the number of first year places that were available in each school for the 2024-25 school year; the number of available first year places in each school in 2025-26 that were not filled; if she will provide the same information for Killester, Raheny, Clontarf, Beaumont, Coolock, Whitehall and Santry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32016/26]
2520. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of service level agreements that Tusla has ended with family resource centres and similar organisations; the number of redundancies arising from these decisions as part of its reform programme; and the plans in place in each case to either continue the services previously provided (such as therapy) in an alternative form, or to confirm where services are being discontinued, on a nationwide basis. [25772/26]
2039. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number and location of Emergency Reception and Orientation Centres (‘EROCs’) which were in use by IPAS as of the 31 December 2025, the occupancy of each centre, as well as the contracted capacity of each centre as of the 31st of December 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24866/26]
2038. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of vulnerability assessments carried out each month from January 2025 to present; the number of adults and children assessed; the number of those assessed as vulnerable; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24865/26]
2037. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the IPAT recognition rate for each year from 2021-2025 inclusive, for safe countries and standard cases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24864/26]
2036. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of international protection applicants who have undergone an age assessment at the International Protection Office; the outcomes of those assessments; details of the appeals process and outcomes of appeals; the qualifications, experience and training of staff carrying out the assessments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24863/26]
194. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the statistics for the number of individuals on the waitlist for psychology and addiction services in the Irish Prison Service, by each prison; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22612/26]
727. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration whether he has sought the views of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission in relation to the general scheme of the Civil Reform Bill 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22181/26]
726. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the intended timeline for the finalisation, introduction to the Houses of the Oireachtas and enactment of the Civil Reform Bill 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22180/26]
725. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the way in which his Department complied with its obligations pursuant to section 42 of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission Act 2014 in preparing the general scheme of the Civil Reform Bill 2025; whether this included any human rights or equality impact assessment of the proposals contained in the general scheme; whether this involved any consultation with groups likely to be impacted by the proposals including groups protected by the equality legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22179/26]
724. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration whether his Department undertook any empirical analysis of the number of judicial reviews taken in the Irish courts, their causes and their outcomes in preparing the general scheme of the Civil Reform Bill 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22178/26]
723. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if his Department is committed to stakeholder consultation in relation to proposed changes to the judicial review process; whether his Department undertook any stakeholder consultation in preparing the general scheme of the Civil Reform Bill 2025; the extent of that consultation and the stakeholders consulted; whether any further stakeholder consultation is planned or envisioned; the nature of and timeframe for any consultation which is envisioned,; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22177/26]
722. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the reason the proposals in the general scheme of the Civil Reform Bill 2025 concerning judicial review go beyond the judicial review recommendations of the Review of the Administration of Civil Justice and the Law Reform Commission; the reason his Department has not yet published an explanatory memorandum in relation to the heads of the general scheme; whether his Department will publish an explanatory memorandum in relation to the heads of the general scheme; whether it will publish an evidence-based policy rationale for each of the changes proposed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22176/26]
688. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration to provide the assumptions and framework on which the output of his Department's online child maintenance calculator is based; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21549/26]
52. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if he will provide the number of arrests, charges and convictions under section 3 of the Misuse of Drugs Act in each of the past five years, by drug type. [20845/26]
34. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of unaccompanied minors who arrived in the State in 2025 seeking international protection. [20844/26]
13. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of Garda members who have retired or resigned from An Garda Síochána in each of the past five years; whether his Department has carried out any analysis of the reasons for those departures; the number of members currently eligible to retire within the next three years; and the measures being taken to improve retention within the force. [20843/26]
10. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if he will clarify the Government's position regarding potential new powers allowing An Garda Síochána to access encrypted communications and personal device data, following recent reports concerning remarks he made on the issue; and whether he will outline the safeguards that will be put in place to ensure that any expansion of interception or surveillance powers is necessary, proportionate and subject to robust oversight. [20841/26]
3. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if he will respond to reports that women prisoners are being held in degrading and overcrowded conditions in the Dóchas Centre; and whether the Government accepts that continuing to rely on incarceration without sufficient investment in alternatives to custody, risks simply warehousing vulnerable women in the prison system. [20842/26]
1240. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the total expenditure by his Department, for 2025, and to date in 2026, in settlement payments, compensation, damages or negotiated payments arising from the repudiation, cancellation or termination of international protection accommodation contracts, including payments already made, payments legally committed to, and any financial provisions recorded in the Department’s accounts, in aggregate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18306/26]
1239. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the total expenditure by his Department in settlement payments, compensation, damages or negotiated payments arising from the repudiation, cancellation or termination of international protection accommodation contracts, including payments already made, payments legally committed to, and any financial provisions recorded in the Department’s accounts, in aggregate , for each of the years 2021 to 2025, and to date in 2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18305/26]
431. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the appeal recognition rates for all international protection applications in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15799/26]
430. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the first instance recognition rates for all international protection applications in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15798/26]
429. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the first instance and appeal recognition rates for all international protection applications from designated safe country applicants for each month in 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15797/26]
428. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the first instance and appeal recognition rates for international protection applications from Georgia, Brazil, and India for each month in 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15796/26]
427. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the current processing times for family reunification applications under the International Protection Act 2015; the number of applications processing for over two, three and four years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15795/26]
209. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of Gardaí seriously injured on the job since the start of the taser pilot on 18 December 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15605/26]
208. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if he will provide details, broken down by month and Garda division of the number of times tasers have been used in the pilot for frontline Gardaí in Dublin City Centre and Waterford since its establishment on 18 December 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15604/26]
780. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the current status of the HAP25 Afghan Community Sponsorship Programme; whether the 50 places approved for Afghans in need of protection in 2026 have now been opened for applications; the reason for the delay; when the programme will formally open for 2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14838/26]
286. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Health when the Chairperson of the Cannabis Access Review Committee will be appointed; when the committee is expected to commence its work; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13170/26]
228. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the reasons for the ongoing delays in the renewal of residence permits; the steps being taken to address the current processing backlog, given that applications are presently only being processed from mid-November; whether issues have arisen with the new online renewal system introduced to replace the GNIB process; the timeline for when processing times will return to normal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13171/26]
242. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the capacity of the State’s designated accommodation centres; and the current occupancy rate. [10758/26]
241. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the purpose of the recently carried out document inspections at accommodation centres for beneficiaries of temporary protection; and the centres covered by this initiative. [10757/26]
240. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if his Department is tracking the accommodation pathways of beneficiaries of temporary protection leaving designated accommodation centres; and if so, the number of persons who have entered alternative accommodation in Ireland. [10756/26]
239. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of persons who have cancelled their temporary protection in Ireland since the introduction of the 30-day accommodation policy on 10 November 2025. [10755/26]
238. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of persons who have applied for temporary protection in Ireland since the introduction of the 30-day accommodation policy on 10 November 2025. [10754/26]
237. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of persons which have been accommodated in designated accommodation centres since the introduction of the 30-day accommodation policy on 10 November 2025. [10753/26]
331. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of safe home units currently funded or supported by Cuan for victims of domestic violence, by local authority area, or county. [9091/26]
330. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of safe home units currently in operation nationally for victims of domestic violence; the number of such units that are available for immediate occupation; and the total capacity of the programme. [9090/26]
329. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the body which is responsible for setting guidelines of best practice in relation to the appropriate length of stay in women's refuges and domestic violence accommodation; whether such guidelines currently exist; and if so, to provide details of those guidelines, including when they were introduced; the evidence base on which they rely; and whether they are binding on funded service providers. [9089/26]