Results 21-40 of 81 for immigration speaker:Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

Policing, Protests and Public Order: Statements (28 Nov 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...at the national Parliament. Those barriers need to be taken down. All the while there are celebrities such as Conor McGregor, a gobdaw, and people in this Chamber who use the words "criminality" and "immigration" in the same sentence as often as they can to get some cheap political gain for themselves. Yes, I am talking about the rural Independents and Members of the Seanad who do the...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Human Trafficking) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (14 Nov 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...the following: “(h) at the request of the presumed victim of human trafficking or the identified victim of human trafficking, a permission or permissions (within the meaning of section 4 of the Immigration Act 2004)— (i) to be in the State, and (ii) for one or more family members to be in the State.”.

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Human Trafficking) Bill 2023: Second Stage (4 Oct 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...the lack of availability of a senior counsel. That dispute must be resolved in order that criminal cases can proceed. There was strong pre-legislative scrutiny of the Bill, with excellent engagement on the general scheme from the Immigrant Council of Ireland, the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission, the Bar of Ireland, the National Women's Council of Ireland and Rape Crisis...

Investment in Football: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...saw activism on the part of footballers like Todd Andrews, Oscar Traynor and Sam Robinson, who took part in the 1920 Bloody Sunday assassinations. His cousin, William Perry Robinson, was shot dead in Croke Park later that afternoon. Sam later played international soccer for Ireland and his great grand-daughter, Aoife Robinson, plays for Bohemians. She recently cut through the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (18 Apr 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...citizens travelling to Ireland to commence English language studies are being denied boarding their flight to Dublin, with airlines reporting that they are acting on instructions from the Irish immigration authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17349/23]

Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Second Stage (10 Nov 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...have a Deputy of this House who has said that asylum seekers are freeloaders, hoodlums and blackguards. We have another Deputy who speaks in this Chamber and who has said that asylum seekers and immigrants need to be deprogrammed. We have members of the Minister's own party who have said that they will not deal with black Africans. We have had the most disgusting, violent, appalling...

Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Second Stage (1 Jul 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...criticise the political system and we are often very self-critical in Ireland, but we have to take a moment to realise we probably stand alone in Europe as being the only country that does not have immigration at the top of the political debate list. We do not discuss it. It is not a political debating point. It never comes up at elections. There is no political entity here that wants...

European Union Regulation: Motion (3 Feb 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...tell somebody they do not belong. I draw the Minister's attention to a piece published in the Dublin Inquirerthis week from Shamim Malekmian. Her piece highlights the ongoing failure to provide long-promised immigration detention centres. In 2021 people who were refused entry to Ireland at our borders were forced to await deportation in prisons. There is sparse information on the...

Traveller Culture and History in Education Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (1 Jul 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...has one, but we do not. There are individual politicians who say stupid, ignorant things at election time. However, no mainstream political party to date has played the race card or the anti-immigrant card, outside of a referendum in 2004. We should cling to that and build on it. What every child, person and human is looking for is a sense of belonging, to feel significant, wanted...

Level 5 Response to Covid-19: Statements (Resumed) (23 Oct 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...is one of fines and Garda intervention. 6 o’clock There is a small but, I fear, growing resentment organisation weaving different strands of extremist ideology, from anti-LGBT and anti-immigrant sentiment to anti-public service broadcasting sentiment, into these measures. We need to watch that and to be very careful it does not use what will be passed in the Dáil today...

Trade Union Representation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Oct 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...heart to think that we have lost so many good, decent and articulate people in that part of the world who were speaking to a better future. More recently, Fergus spent much time with young people from immigrant backgrounds, speaking to their reality and trying to find ways to empower them. It is appropriate, on a night like this, that the national Parliament would hear of the memory of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council Meetings (7 Oct 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...Greece which affected over 13,000 refugees. Ireland has agreed to take 50. The Taoiseach will agree we could do an awful lot more, given our history and that we are the people of Famine ships and immigration which has seen us settle all over the world. We know Famine and we know sectarian violence and have fled from it. As part of our historical national moral obligation, we should...

Supporting Inclusion and Combating Racism in Ireland: Statements (17 Jun 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...to the world of the nature of discrimination and of our own experience because of our own history. We are the people of Famine ships, who have gone to every corner of world. We understand the immigrant experience like no other. That is why it is deeply disappointing when people in this House use racism, fear and language to punch down. Racism is about power. It is sometimes about...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Nov 2019)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...it is for all of us to understand the seriousness of inequality and the way rhetoric hurts children in particular who are from vulnerable communities. For the child of an asylum seeker, an immigrant, somebody in drug addiction or a Traveller, this sort of rhetoric will seep into their bones and possibly never leave them. I would remind all parties in this House, and all their candidates...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Jun 2019)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...camps, when one has families being broken up at the border, and then when the image emerges of Oscar and his daughter, Valeria, lying face down in water, one is reminded of what Trump has said about immigrants. He has described them in many different ways but he has used the term "animals". Therefore, it is incumbent on all of us in this House to turn down the invitation. If we really...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Mar 2019)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: As the Taoiseach hands Donald Trump a bowl of shamrock today to mark St. Patrick's Day, we must remember that the Irish in America are immigrants. We have a history of emigration. Many people left this land on coffin ships or because of sectarian strife, unemployment or poverty. There are Irish people all over the world, including, of course, in America. On St. Patrick's Day, we should...

Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Second Stage (6 Dec 2018)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...across Europe. We thought our country was a conservative backwater that would never embrace the idea of LGBT rights, women's rights or reproductive rights and would never descend to racist race card immigration debates at a time of election. In some bizarre way, the island I grew up on in the 1980s is a beacon of light for progressive minded people across the world. I will never know...

Seanad: Irish Nationality and Citizenship (Naturalisation of Minors Born in Ireland) Bill 2018: Second Stage (21 Nov 2018)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I thank the Immigrant Council of Ireland and the Migrant Rights Centre Ireland for being here this evening. Their advocacy and lobbying shows the best of our country and what it means to be Irish. I am bitterly disappointed at the Government’s reaction to this Bill, which I genuinely did not expect, but I will start on a point of unity. No mainstream political party has ever done...

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jun 2018)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...in Italy. We should not be surprised about what has happened at the southern border of the US because it follows a travel ban, loads of rhetoric and the fact that Donald Trump has called illegal immigrants animals. I have to hand the invitation that all Members of the Oireachtas received by post from the chargé d'affaires of the United States Embassy. Of course there is no US...

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jun 2018)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: It would be a small gesture in response to a big issue. We can all see what is happening with Brexit, which has anti-immigration sentiments. We also have Trump and we have seen what has happened in Italy. In addition, after what has happened recently with our referendum and the referendum that took place a number of years ago, people look to us to stand for something better. Let us...