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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (3 Jul 2025)

Jim O'Callaghan: There is mandatory training for trainees in Templemore, as I outlined in my answer. Second, I have instructed officials in my Department to prepare the heads of Bill amending the Domestic Violence Act to ensure that, with respect to persons convicted of serious offences on indictment, the detail will be published in court judgments. This will entail a decision by the judges hearing the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Deportation Orders (3 Jul 2025)

Deportation Orders

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Deportation Orders (3 Jul 2025)

Matt Carthy: 3. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the annual percentage of those who received a final negative decision on their international protection application who left Ireland within 30 days and who provided authorities with documentary evidence that they had left within three days of arrival in their home country, for each of the past five years, in tabular form; and...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Deportation Orders (3 Jul 2025)

Matt Carthy: The Minister of State, Deputy Brophy, will know there is a sense that the enforcement of negative decisions within the international protection system is not working. I would appreciate it if he could outline to the House the percentage of those who received final negative decisions who voluntarily left Ireland within the 30-day period and subsequently provided authorities with evidence that...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Deportation Orders (3 Jul 2025)

Colm Brophy: I thank the Deputy for the question. It is a central priority for me, as Minister for State, that Ireland’s immigration system is firm, fair and effective. Returning people who do not have permission to remain in Ireland is undertaken through both voluntary returns and deportation. Both types of returns are essential for the system to work effectively and ensure confidence in the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Deportation Orders (3 Jul 2025)

Matt Carthy: I am just not sure whether the Minister of State has actually answered the question. In respect of the numbers he provided on voluntary returns - 934 and 885, if I noted them correctly - can he confirm that the people notified the authorities with the appropriate documentation within three days of having voluntarily left? Could he give a breakdown differentiating between those who made...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Deportation Orders (3 Jul 2025)

Colm Brophy: To clarify, if a person has left voluntarily, he or she must provide, on foot of a request, officials with documentary evidence within three days that they have left Ireland. If they do not do so, a deportation order can be issued. Of the 808 people who left by way of voluntary return this year up to 27 June, 615 had been refused international protection status. Since 2020, 2,300 people...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Deportation Orders (3 Jul 2025)

Matt Carthy: It would be useful if the Minister of State explained to the House the process for tracking and monitoring those who receive a final negative decision to ensure they leave Ireland as required. How many people are now in the State who have received a final negative decision but who have not left voluntarily, even if they have indicated an intention to do so? It is important to know how many...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Deportation Orders (3 Jul 2025)

Colm Brophy: The Deputy will be aware that we do not have an exit system for leaving our country. The reason is that there are various circumstances concerning how we manage people coming and going, particularly with the common travel area. We believe, based on clear indications, that the vast majority of people served with a deportation order do actually leave the country. The indication is that...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: An Garda Síochána (3 Jul 2025)

Matt Carthy: There can be variation in the numbers going in to each intake but the one thing that is very clear is that in no intake at the Garda College was there as many trainees as the college had capacity to train. At no stage did 200 or even close to 200 attest. In some cases, the figures were far below that. The difficulty is that the Government has been talking for quite some time now about...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: An Garda Síochána (3 Jul 2025)

Jim O'Callaghan: The programme for Government commitment is that we will recruit 5,000 gardaí during the five-year term of the Government. I am not too worried about whether we get to 1,000 each year and if they are evenly spread over the five years. The priority is to get to 5,000. We need to increase the numbers within the force. On the retention crisis, the number of resignations from An Garda...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: An Garda Síochána (3 Jul 2025)

Matt Carthy: Will there be five intakes this year or next year in the Garda College? He might also indicate if there are plans to increase the capacity to allow intakes of 250 trainees. Has the Minister examined the impact of the rate of payment of the Garda training allowance? We know there was an increase but where the very changes he has referred to in the age profile of those joining the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: An Garda Síochána (3 Jul 2025)

Jim O'Callaghan: On the intakes this year, there will be four. There was one in June, there will be another in August and there will be another before the end of the year. There will be approximately four intakes this year. Some years, there can be five but it is dependent upon each year and how the schedule operates. On the proposal to increase the training allowance, that is something I will...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (3 Jul 2025)

Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (3 Jul 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 2. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to the findings of a report (details supplied) that front-line services were contacted 32,144 times, being an increase of 12% on 2023, that 44% of women surveyed were not satisfied with their initial engagement with An Garda Síochána and that its response to more than 65,000 contacts received last year was...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (3 Jul 2025)

Catherine Connolly: The Minister is very familiar with the latest Women Aid's report. What will he do, given the significant increase in contacts with Women's Aid and that 44% of women said they were not satisfied with their initial engagement with An Garda Síochána? The response is inconsistent from the Garda in relation to the 65,000 contacts received. What steps is the Minister taking in relation...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (3 Jul 2025)

Jim O'Callaghan: I thank Deputy Connolly for her question. As she knows, the Women's Aid report was published last week. I had the privilege and responsibility of launching it. The statistics within it are very concerning. There were 32,144 contacts made with Women's Aid services last year. That was a 12% increase on the previous year. I was also aware of the statistic contained within it that 44% of...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (3 Jul 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I followed this up myself since I joined the Dáil in 2016. We had a task force in 1996 and Eithne FitzGerald was the Labour Party Minister at that stage. Ever since, we have been playing catch up. I am not reassured that the Garda now has courses in place. It was acknowledged by the Garda when it was before us at the public accounts committee recently and further details will be sent...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (3 Jul 2025)

Jim O'Callaghan: This is a societal problem. However, my own assessment of it is that there is a growing recognition of the extent of this problem and there is a greater sense of confidence and capacity on the part of women to no longer tolerate this and therefore, to report it. 9 o’clock There is a debate as to whether the increased numbers are due to an increase in violence against women or...

Prelude (3 Jul 2025)