Results 1-20 of 33 for immigration speaker:Darragh O'Brien

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (5 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...residence or have indefinite leave to remain in the state. Applicant(s) must provide proof of fulfilling the residency requirements when making their application. Given the variety of immigration documents which exist, it is not appropriate to list all possible eligible documents. It is the applicants’ responsibility to provide proof that each applicant fulfils the residency...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...have been torched. That must be roundly condemned. It is atrocious criminal behaviour that has no place in this country. To get back to Deputy McNamara's specific point on the law and immigration legislation, it is clear with regard to travel documentation that where someone is found to be breaking the law, they should be prosecuted and they will be. I do not have the numbers that...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...does not mind. Regarding the number of prosecutions, Deputy McNamara said there have been zero. This is something I will raise with the Minister for Justice. We have ensured that airline and immigration staff are properly and appropriately trained to deal with people coming in who are trying to get around the laws that are in place. The claims of the vast majority of people seeking...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I understand the question. All of us know Dublin Airport well. Deputy McNamara knows with regard to anyone who comes in without travel documents that there are GNIB officers and immigration officers who interview each of these individuals. Nobody walks straight into the country. They are interviewed. There can be valid reasons, as Deputy McNamara has also said, as to why people would not...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Elections (28 Nov 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: ..., members of the Oireachtas, student unions, organisations affiliated to the National Youth Council and a range of other organisations including those working with international protection applicants such as the Immigrant Council for Ireland, the Irish Centre for Human Rights, and the Irish Refugee Council.Hard copy posters were designed, printed and distributed to various stakeholders who...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Jun 2022)

Darragh O'Brien: Deputy Nolan has walked a very fine line here this afternoon. What she is effectively calling for is a cap on immigration and asylum seekers in this country. Let us be clear. I am calling that out. That is what she is calling for. We will not support that. We will not support a cap on Ukrainians coming here who have fled a war foisted upon them through no fault of their own. As far as...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Real Estate Investment Trusts (2 Jun 2021)

Darragh O'Brien: The Immigrant Investor Programme (IIP) is within the remit of the Minister for Justice and any reviews of that programme will be undertaken by the Department of Justice. The regulation of the REIT sector is within the remit of the Minister for Finance, and any changes to the regulatory framework for REIT investment would be a matter for the Department of Finance. The Government is...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Funding (18 May 2021)

Darragh O'Brien: ...62295 138,000 132,300 National Women’s Council of Ireland - - 28,809 3,700 Longford Women’s Link - - 108,604 104,000 Immigrant Council of Ireland - - 7,950 24,090 Coastwatch 6,794.03 25,000 ...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Programme for Government (28 Apr 2021)

Darragh O'Brien: ...could include the training of women candidates, the recruitment of diversity officers whose role would be to build the diversity of party membership and future local election candidates, active engagement with immigrant, traveller or disability groups, etc. Since the introduction of the scheme in 2019, nine political parties have applied for funding. The scheme is ongoing and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (4 Feb 2021)

Darragh O'Brien: ...local authority must apply to my Department for approval before entering into any agreement. My Department does not hold data on whether the owner of a leased property has availed of funding under the Immigrant Investor Programme (IIP). I have no function in relation to the IIP which comes within the remit of my colleague, the Minister for Justice.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Electoral Process (3 Nov 2020)

Darragh O'Brien: ...initiatives to encourage other segments of the population to exercise their right to vote. For example, in advance of the local and European Elections in 2019, my Department worked with the Immigrant Council of Ireland in a publicity campaign aimed at providing information and encouraging immigrants to register to vote. In the case of referendums, the role of any Referendum Commission...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigrant Investor Programme Data (6 Nov 2019)

Darragh O'Brien: ...and Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to the number of applications of new build social housing units stemming from the investment fund and enterprise option of the immigrant investor programme for 2017, 2018 and up to the end of August 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45716/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigrant Investor Programme Data (6 Nov 2019)

Darragh O'Brien: ...if his attention has been drawn to the number of applications for new build nursing homes and primary care centres that are under way stemming from the investment fund and enterprise option of the immigrant investor programme for 2017, 2018 and up to the end of August 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45717/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigrant Investor Programme Data (6 Nov 2019)

Darragh O'Brien: ...for Justice and Equality the number of new build social housing units, new build nursing homes and primary care centres that are under way stemming from the investment fund and enterprise option of the immigrant investor programme in 2017, 2018 and up to the end of August 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45715/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigrant Investor Programme Data (6 Nov 2019)

Darragh O'Brien: 92. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of applications that have been made for the immigrant investor programme via the enterprise, investment, REIT and endowment options up to the end of August 2019; the breakdown for each period for 2019 (details supplied) in tabular form; the number of applications in 2017 and 2018; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigrant Investor Programme Applications (6 Nov 2019)

Darragh O'Brien: 93. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of applications for the immigrant investor programme via the enterprise investment, REIT and endowment options that have been approved up to the end of August 2019, for 2017 and 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45714/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigrant Investor Programme Administration (6 Nov 2019)

Darragh O'Brien: 95. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps he has taken to ensure that funds under the immigrant investor programme are fully drawn down and verified before visas are granted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45718/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigrant Investor Programme Administration (6 Nov 2019)

Darragh O'Brien: 96. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps he has taken to ensure the immigrant investor programme adheres to best practice in investor programmes in the OECD in terms of anti-money laundering, international sanction checks, political exposed persons and client verification; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45719/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigrant Investor Programme Administration (6 Nov 2019)

Darragh O'Brien: ...ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps he has taken to address the issue of organisations making third party payments to secure funding under the endowment option of the immigrant investor programme or other options; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45720/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Brexit Issues: British Irish Chamber of Commerce (1 Feb 2018)

Darragh O'Brien: ...an EU citizen that we could enter into an arrangement that would effectively mean we will allow Britain to restrict the freedom of movement of EU citizens because of any deal we would do with it. Immigration and migration was the issue, not global Britain. A person in Sunderland was not worried about Britain increasing its trade with China. Again, Mr O'Neill is asking how we square that...