Results 1-20 of 36 for immigration speaker:Éamon Ó Cuív

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: International Protection (11 Jul 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...many applications are on hand? The second issue most of us deal with when constituents who come in with queries is international protection. We ask questions of the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service, INIS, and to say that the answers are bland is to put it mildly. There is no information at all as to how the application is progressing and what the timescale that...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Ukraine War (26 May 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...Minister for Justice and Equality the special steps, if any, that need to be taken by Ukrainians who have come here in recent months due to the war there, and whose passports were not stamped by Irish immigration on entering the country; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27097/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (3 Feb 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the NDLS will grant an extension of time to a person (details supplied) in respect of a driver license renewal pending their appointment with the immigration services in order to receive their GNIB card; if the difficulties that have arisen due to the Covid-19 pandemic will be taken into account and the extension of time granted to allow the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Courts Service (9 Jun 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 238. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the discussions he has had with the Courts Service to ensure speedier hearings of court cases in relation to asylum and immigration in the courts and in particular cases involving judicial review proceedings relating to asylum; the results of such discussions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10221/20]

Provision of Accommodation and Ancillary Services to Applicants for International Protection: Statements (13 Nov 2019)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...I suggested that forum would have a chair appointed by the Minister of State, or we would accept the present chair. It would have representatives from the Department, the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service, INIS, the Reception and Integration Agency, the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission, the Immigrant Council of Ireland, the anti-racism networks and representatives of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: National Famine Commemoration Day Bill 2017: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...affirmation from the Department. We had the international commemoration and I remember having it in Toronto and Grosse Isle. Grosse Isle was absolutely extraordinary. It is the island all the immigrants came through on their way to Canada. It is an extraordinary place. I was a little amused. I must mention a monument built in cloch eibhir. The stone used was transported 300 miles...

Harbours Bill 2015: Second Stage (16 Jul 2015)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...I went to Corr na Móna as a young person, well before I was in politics, my whole motivation in the 18 years in the co-op there was not to accept the status quo,not to accept the west was an also-ran, not to accept immigration or that we could not create jobs. The businesses we spawned, under different management, have been highly successful and did defeat the odds. The Minister of...

Written Answers — Citizenship Applications: Citizenship Applications (31 May 2011)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality, further to Parliamentary Question No. 259 of 24 May 2011, his plans to ensure that detailed updates are made available by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service on individual cases, including details of the current status of the application; the projected timeframe for decision on the next stage of the process or on the conclusion of...

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (12 Jan 2011)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...Welfare Consolidation Act, as amended. A person who does not satisfy the habitual residence condition is not eligible for specified social welfare payments, regardless of citizenship, nationality, immigration status or any other factor. The purpose of this condition is to safeguard the social welfare system from abuse by restricting access for people who are not economically active and...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (23 Nov 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...benefit with effect from 1st May 2004. A person who does not satisfy the habitual residence condition is not eligible for specified social welfare payments, regardless of citizenship, nationality, immigration status or any other factor. The purpose of this condition is to safeguard the social welfare system from abuse by restricting access for people who are not economically active and...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (23 Nov 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...no established connection with Ireland. A person who does not satisfy the habitual residence condition is not eligible for specified social welfare payments, regardless of citizenship, nationality, immigration status or any other factor. The social welfare schemes concerned are jobseeker's allowance, one parent family payment, disability allowance, carer's allowance, widow/er's...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (23 Nov 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...benefit with effect from 1st May 2004. A person who does not satisfy the habitual residence condition is not eligible for specified social welfare payments, regardless of citizenship, nationality, immigration status or any other factor. The purpose of the habitual residence condition is to safeguard the social welfare system from abuse by restricting access for people who are not...

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (3 Nov 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...benefit with effect from 1st May 2004. A person who does not satisfy the habitual residence condition is not eligible for specified social welfare payments, regardless of citizenship, nationality, immigration status or any other factor. The purpose of this condition is to safeguard the social welfare system from abuse by restricting access for people who are not economically active and...

Written Answers — Marriages of Convenience: Marriages of Convenience (2 Nov 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...Court of Justice in the Metock case on 25th July 2008, which held that these rights applied to non-EU national spouses of EU nationals. As has been widely reported in the media, the Garda National Immigration Bureau has lodged objections to a large number of marriages involving non-EU/EEA nationals, under Section 58 of the Civil Registration Act, 2004. Under the Act, if the objection...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (2 Nov 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...benefit with effect from 1st May 2004. A person who does not satisfy the habitual residence condition is not eligible for specified social welfare payments, regardless of citizenship, nationality, immigration status or any other factor. The purpose of the habitual residence condition is to safeguard the social welfare system from abuse by restricting access for people who are not...

Marriages of Convenience (2 Nov 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...Court of Justice in the Metock case on 25 July 2008, which held that these rights applied to non-EU national spouses of EU nationals. As has been widely reported in the media, the Garda National Immigration Bureau has lodged objections to a large number of marriages involving non-EU-EEA nationals under section 58 of the Civil Registration Act 2004. Under the Act, if the objection relates...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (27 Oct 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...no established connection with Ireland. A person who does not satisfy the habitual residence condition is not eligible for specified social welfare payments, regardless of citizenship, nationality, immigration status or any other factor. The social welfare schemes concerned are jobseeker's allowance, one parent family payment, disability allowance, carer's allowance, widow/er's (non...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (21 Oct 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Child Benefit payments were suspended this month following receipt of information from the Garda National Immigration Bureau that the person concerned and her children were absent from the State. Correspondence has issued to the person concerned today, 19 October 2010, requesting documentary evidence of her period of absence from the State. When this information is provided, her entitlement...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (1 Jun 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...types of evidence required to support the answers given which will depend on the circumstances of the case, and may include details of their residence permit or renewal application, work permit, immigration documents, etc. Other evidence sought may include details of a spouse or partner's PPS number and employment where relevant. A full disclosure of all the relevant details in completion...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (22 Apr 2010)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...the habitual residency requirement is that a person whose habitual residence is elsewhere is not paid certain social welfare payments on arrival in Ireland, regardless of citizenship, nationality, immigration status or any other factor. Decisions concerning habitual residence are subject to five factors which have been laid down by the European Court of Justice, and which are now...