Results 1-20 of 28 for immigration speaker:Willie O'Dea

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (11 Oct 2023)

Willie O'Dea: 153. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she is aware that there is a 15-16 week waiting time for immigration appointments in Limerick city; if there is a plan in place to deal with this significant backlog; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44236/23]

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Civil Registration (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (5 Nov 2014)

Willie O'Dea: ...certain information or documents from people proposing to get married at least one of whom is a foreign national. The registrar should decide what documentation and information to seek in respect of immigration status. Some foreigners who present here left their own countries with just the clothes on their backs. Some of them had to flee in very extenuating circumstances. I would like...

Civil Registration (Amendment) Bill 2014 [Seanad]: Second Stage (7 Oct 2014)

Willie O'Dea: ...replies. The Bill also deals with the problem of marriages and civil partnerships of convenience. A civil partnership or marriage of convenience can be called a scam or an artifice aimed at gaining immigrant status. Speakers in the other House referred to the controversy that surrounded non-nationals coming into the country to give birth to children who automatically became Irish...

Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2013)

Willie O'Dea: Immigration.

Industrial Relations (Amendment)(No.3): Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (4 Jul 2012)

Willie O'Dea: ...or maybe get a trade union or some other third party to do so. We are talking about people who are generally not very well educated and in low wage employment. Examples might include an immigrant or a housewife who is working to supplement the family income because her husband has been put on the dole. If they succeed before the rights commissioner, the employer can appeal to the Labour...

Written Answers — Visa Applications: Visa Applications (6 Mar 2012)

Willie O'Dea: Question 399: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality in view of the delay in processing spousal applications, if the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service, his Department or the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade will issue multiple entry visas to applicants until their spouse visa application has been finalised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12493/12]

Entrepreneur Visa Bill 2012: First Stage (29 Feb 2012)

Willie O'Dea: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to establish an employment based immigrant visa for entrepreneurs from outside the jurisdiction of the European Economic Area who have received significant capital from investors to establish a business in the Republic of Ireland.

Industrial Relations (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (7 Oct 2011)

Willie O'Dea: ...system. There is an enormous amount covered by JLCs which is not dealt with in the legislation. More importantly, under the protection granted by Government legislation, these vulnerable people - immigrant workers, part-time workers and so on - are expected to vindicate their own rights, to take a case themselves if their rights are infringed. They do not have the same protection from...

Employment Support Services (19 Jul 2011)

Willie O'Dea: Question 19: To ask the Minister for Jobs; Enterprise and Innovation if he has satisfied himself that the measures in place to counter unemployment and immigration are adequate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21221/11]

Macro-Economic and Fiscal Outlook: Statements (27 Oct 2010)

Willie O'Dea: ...and turn it into a real income stream. Time does not allow me to speak about other proposals in detail but I will articulate them both here in the House and elsewhere. I refer to encouraging immigrants to invest in new businesses here; turning the migration of graduates into a positive rather than a negative which it is at the moment; radical reform of the bankruptcy laws; a study of the...

Written Answers — Residency Permits: Residency Permits (29 Sep 2010)

Willie O'Dea: Question 898: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the position regarding the immigration status of a person (details supplied) in County Limerick. [31797/10]

Written Answers — Asylum Applications: Asylum Applications (15 Jun 2010)

Willie O'Dea: ...Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when a person (details supplied) who has applied for subsidiary protection and is awaiting the outcome of their representation under Section 3 of the Immigration Act of 1999 against deportation, will receive an update on their requests. [25470/10]

Vote 41 - Office of the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2009)

Willie O'Dea: ..., Equality and Law Reform - in order to bring the €12 million in surplus receipts above the line to meet overruns in the demand-led areas of criminal legal aid, the Irish naturalisation and immigration service and asylum accommodation. The technical Supplementary Estimate is required for Vote 22, the Courts Service, to meet the increased day to day running costs of the Courts Service,...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2008: Second Stage (12 Mar 2008)

Willie O'Dea: ...more than 7%, one of the best economic performances in the world. Annual employment growth has averaged 4% since 1997, with the number of people at work rising by nearly 700,000 over this period. Immigration has replaced emigration. Economic success has enabled us to improve public services without putting a strain on the public finances. Our ratio of public debt to GDP remains one of...

Seanad: Equality Bill 2004 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages. (7 Jul 2004)

Willie O'Dea: ...Justice, Equality and Law Reform in housing matters into line with that of local authorities. Amendments Nos. 31 and 34 provide clarification that any decision taken in the context of asylum and immigration cannot be challenged under the Equal Status Act 2000. The effect of these Dáil amendments is to restrict the exemption to actions taken on the basis of nationality, and not to actions...

Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2004)

Willie O'Dea: Of the 3,270 women aged over 16 who applied for asylum last year, 1,893, or 58%, were pregnant. At the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin there were 1,951 births to immigrants last year. Almost 14% came to the hospital between one and ten days before giving birth while about 13% arrived in labour. That strongly indicates that at least 27% of immigrant births, or about 500, were passport tourism...

Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2004)

Willie O'Dea: The buzzwords are "complex", "confusion" and "difficulty". There is nothing remotely confusing or difficult about this proposition. While it is true certain aspects of immigration law are complex, this is not one of them. What is complex or confusing about the proposition that if a child is born to non-national parents——

Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2004)

Willie O'Dea: ...solicitor, Deputy Jim O'Keeffe will be very well aware that, judging from the volume of case law and material written on the subject, land law is infinitely more complex and detailed than immigration law. Nevertheless, there are aspects of land law which are quite simple just like this aspect of immigration law.

Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2004)

Willie O'Dea: ...country in the world to operate it. This has been operated in countries in every corner of the world. An even more ludicrous suggestion is that the Government is racist. A huge percentage of the immigrant community who come here simply to give birth come from countries where the very fact of giving birth does not automatically convey a right to citizenship. Would those people regard their...

Seanad: Equality Bill 2004: Report and Final Stages. (24 Feb 2004)

Willie O'Dea: ...forward amendment No. 17, which I now propose to accept instead of amendment No. 18. I thank Senator Tuffy for identifying this necessary amendment which occurred by reason of the enactment of the Immigration Act 2004. I am delight to accept the substance of her Committee Stage amendment.