Results 1-20 of 56 for immigration speaker:Rónán Mullen

Seanad: An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Teaghlach), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Jan 2024)

Rónán Mullen: ...a different Alice - "when I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less." The Minister might express a view that he does not have throuples, polygamy, strange sects or immigration challenges in mind but that is just his view. If his definition of family is inserted into the Constitution, we have no idea where it can lead. The Minister can reassure us all...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Religious, Faith-Based and other Philosophical Perspectives on Assisted Dying: Discussion (5 Dec 2023)

Rónán Mullen: ...this, then why are you on the wrong side of history? Again, to my friend Gino I would say if the opinion polls show, and they seem to, that the majority of people think we have now taken enough immigrants into Ireland, does he accept that this-----

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Nov 2023)

Rónán Mullen: ...identifies and deals with the small number of people who may come to our shores with mental health problems or extreme ideologies, perhaps exacerbated by past traumas. At the same time, a Brazilian immigrant who put his own safety at risk and perhaps saved children's lives last week exemplified the nobility and courage to which all Irish people should aspire. He reminded us that we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Access to Palliative Care and Social Supports: Discussion (21 Nov 2023)

Rónán Mullen: I will ask one final question. We hear a lot of talk about opinion polls and what they say on one issue or another. I am thinking these days, for example, about opinion polls on immigration. The view is sometimes taken that if certain attitudes come up in opinion polls, this can point to the need for more public information. If opinion polls were to show majority support for a change in...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Working Group on Disinformation (1 Mar 2023)

Rónán Mullen: ...material. This will produce a national counter-disinformation strategy by the end of the year. AnIrish Independentarticle noted that, "While the group is not the government's direct response to recent anti-immigration protests and the spread of anti-immigration sentiments online, it is part of a State strategy to combat false information as a whole", which prompts a question in my mind....

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Jun 2022)

Rónán Mullen: ...went through him for a shortcut yesterday in the Dáil because of the way he answered her question about social cohesion issues that might arise from the combined challenges of the housing crisis, immigration and asylum issues and accommodating victims of the war on Ukraine by Russia. In accusing Deputy Nolan of threatening social cohesion, the Minister failed to recognise that it is...

Seanad: Violence Against Women: Statements (27 Jan 2022)

Rónán Mullen: ...been at large in society. Are there issues about our integration of minorities in society? I say that as somebody who is, and always has been and will continue to be, strongly supportive of generous immigration policies. Is there a problem of excessive drinking, the importation and widespread consumption of illegal drugs and attitudes towards this? Is that leading to violence? Is...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Smuggling of Persons) Bill 2021: Second Stage (29 Sep 2021)

Rónán Mullen: ...course welcome this Bill. It is of a technical nature, but it does some important things. The Minister of State discussed the difficulty of obtaining prosecutions under section 2 of the Illegal Immigrants (Trafficking) Act 2000. There have been prosecutions in that regard, but the Minister of State's point was that it is often difficult to prove effectively that the trafficking or...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Departmental Records (18 May 2021)

Rónán Mullen: ...the EU as well as a range of documents used outside the EU. Authentication is most often required for foreign adoptions where significant amounts of documentation are required to be sent abroad but also for immigration and citizenship matters, for certain business transactions, share sales and so on. Covid-19 has meant that instead of being processed very quickly by the Department of...

Seanad: Social Welfare (Covid-19) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (29 Jul 2020)

Rónán Mullen: ...they need to discuss genuine human rights abuses and what is really a police state. There are complex issues that may have to be addressed. In another example from recent days, I believe Mr. Brian Killoran of the Immigrant Council of Ireland described a situation where a gentleman from Pakistan had had his phone records examined to see whether his relationship with his Polish wife was...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Nov 2019)

Rónán Mullen: I have always said that we need to have a structured policy towards immigration. That includes reaching out, not just to those who can come to our shores who have particular skills who may not be asylum seekers and obviously have the first claim, but also to people who do not necessarily have skills that we are desperately clamouring for, as part of some programme of structured migration as...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Jul 2019)

Rónán Mullen: ...for permanent residency was denied because their child had been diagnosed with cystic fibrosis. That incredible decision was thankfully reversed as a result of a last minute intervention by the immigration Minister in Australia and the family will be allowed to remain after all. While that is a great outcome, certain concerns about the case remain. One is the media blackout about this...

Seanad: Comprehensive Employment Strategy for People with Disabilities 2015-2024: Statements (16 May 2019)

Rónán Mullen: ...ask if this could happen in Ireland. I understand that an approach has not been made to the Irish Government on the behalf of these families. The case of the Hyde family is now on appeal to the immigration minister. This is something we should do of our own volition without waiting to be asked. That type of problem raises serious questions about how supposedly liberal modern societies...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Visa Applications (14 May 2019)

Rónán Mullen: ...are separate but similar to those I raised on the Order of Business on 2 and 17 April. The issue is the treatment of two Irish families - the Suhinthan and Hyde families - at the hands of the immigration authorities of New Zealand and Australia, respectively. Ms Nilani Suhinthan, an IT consultant, was headhunted for a job in New Zealand and her husband and family decided to move there....

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Apr 2019)

Rónán Mullen: ...would be turned away on the grounds that one of the children was born with a manageable medical or genetic condition. If Donald Trump were to impose such a disgusting and discriminatory policy on immigrants to his country, there would be worldwide outrage, but when supposedly liberal and tolerant countries such as Australia and New Zealand do it, there is political silence and,...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Apr 2019)

Rónán Mullen: ...that themselves but their appeal was refused in recent days and they are now in limbo with their family separated. I accept, and I am sure the Leader would agree, that each country has the right to regulate its own immigration laws as it sees fit but, on the other hand, this is a situation where we have to ask what it says about a society that would welcome a highly-skilled couple with...

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jul 2017)

Rónán Mullen: ...silly buggers and that there is not some untold part of the story that would cast a reasonable light on the entire episode. If what The Irish Timeshas told us is true, we need to ask whether Garda immigration officers are acting in an unnecessarily hostile fashion when people who have a perfect right to do so try to come into the State. If they are, what does it say about what we are...

Seanad: Migrant Integration Strategy: Statements (16 May 2017)

Rónán Mullen: ...against a backdrop of nationalist sentiment around the globe that often seeks to vilify non-nationals, creating associated xenophobia and populism. Indeed, the Irish Government has tightened immigration through the International Protection Act 2015. I recently called for changes in the administrative processes involved so as to give asylum seekers a fairer chance of being considered as...

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Feb 2017)

Rónán Mullen: In the House yesterday I strongly criticised President Trump's executive order on immigration and the manner in which it had been introduced. However, I am very conscious that it is easy to criticise President Trump; in fact, it is something of a global pastime. What worries me is that we do not seem to challenge other elite people in authority in the same way. Perhaps it is time to have...

Seanad: Order of Business (31 Jan 2017)

Rónán Mullen: I, too, regret President Trump's executive order relating to immigrants and refugees, and I certainly think it is a retrograde step in terms of promoting solidarity with some of the world's most vulnerable people. However, there were no protests against the Obama Administration's already mean and ungenerous approach to the admission of Syrian refugees, if the United States is compared with...