Results 1-20 of 22 for immigration speaker:Fergus O'Dowd

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Diaspora Issues (30 Apr 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: ...ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of the 30 recommendations of a report (details supplied) provided to the Government on the plight and problems of returning Irish citizen immigrants to Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18868/24]

Recent Arson Attacks: Statements (27 Feb 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: ...Niall has worked in America for many years on behalf of the people that Deputy Ó Riordáin spoke about. He has worked very hard to make sure the Irish in America are treated properly and that Irish immigration reform is appropriately and properly handled. I fully support that work. We can draw an historic parallel between the people who are burning premises and opposing new...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Schemes (18 Apr 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: 1079. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a replacement for the Immigrant Investor Programme is currently being considered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16779/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Representatives from the Committee on the Administration of Justice (24 Feb 2022)

Fergus O'Dowd: Our engagement today is with the Committee on the Administration of Justice, which is represented here in the committee room by Mr. Daniel Holder, deputy director, and online by Ms Una Boyd, immigration project solicitor and co-ordinator. They are both very welcome. The evidence of witnesses physically present or who give evidence from within the parliamentary precincts is protected...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response Final Report: Motion (19 Nov 2020)

Fergus O'Dowd: ...in all these issues and it is entirely unacceptable that this is the situation. Many of those who work in nursing homes are poorly paid and have poor conditions of service. Many of them are recent immigrants and have no proper sick pay. They are vulnerable workers, have poor accommodation and many of them have to work in more than one location to make a living. Their status in our...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Meat Plants (10 Jul 2020)

Fergus O'Dowd: ...from the UK about minority communities, as opposed to mainstream communities, who get Covid. In other words, it is the case that because of the conditions in which they live or where they work, immigrants seem to suffer more from this illness. What are the three or five key points that we need to put in place now to protect workers in this situation assuming that the health issues are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homeless Figures: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (20 Jun 2018)

Fergus O'Dowd: ...be employed, which meant that people in employment and on low incomes were excluded from rent support and could not get homes. I came across a case recently involving a lady who happens to be an immigrant with a young family. She works in the health services locally and until recently could not afford to keep her family with the money she was earning. She could not pay her rent...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Funding (30 May 2017)

Fergus O'Dowd: 127. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason for refusal of the national funding to promote the integration of immigrants for a group (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25572/17]

Housing (Sale of Local Authority Housing) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (20 Jul 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: ..., at that time - the new census was published only this week - more than 470,000 people rented their own homes. It is wrong to say that people do not aspire to rent homes. With regard to the influx of immigrants into the country during the boom, the number who have remained here since the Fianna Fáil bust is significant. Many of the immigrant population come from countries where...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (28 Jan 2016)

Fergus O'Dowd: 184. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality to respond to issues raised by a person (details supplied) regarding the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service regulations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3531/16]

International Protection Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2015)

Fergus O'Dowd: ...there is continuing progress by refugees who live in our society, who have the right to remain here and whose children are as Irish as anybody else's children. We need to integrate people from the immigrant community into public life. Whoever the next Taoiseach is, I suggest he or she consider appointing somebody from the immigrant community to the Seanad to give them a clear voice in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Global Resettlement Needs and Related Matters: UNHCR (24 Jun 2015)

Fergus O'Dowd: ...clarity to public opinion on the question of, for example, refugees who may have been trafficked into Ireland and the major issues related to that. The enrichment of society provided by the immigrant community in my area has been considerable. That multiculturalism and so on make us a real international country rather than the monochrome one we were for many years, although I say that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Undocumented Migrants: Immigration Control Platform (1 Apr 2015)

Fergus O'Dowd: Members of my family went to America as immigrants and have fought for people who are there illegally. I stress that I support the principle that the arguments made by the Irish Government in Washington should be the same as those we articulate here about our illegal immigrants. There should be an equality of our ideas in this context, but what is missing from the presentation today is a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Undocumented Migrants: Immigration Control Platform (1 Apr 2015)

Fergus O'Dowd: Notwithstanding whatever criticism the Immigration Control Platform makes of the argument, is Mr. Neville arguing that these people ought be deported at the end of that process? Does he not see that if we regularise the position of all of those people then at least we would recognise the humanity of the families concerned, their commitment to their communities and their children? This is...

Topical Issue Debate: Asylum Process (6 Feb 2013)

Fergus O'Dowd: ...in great detail by officials in the Department. The current arrangements for dealing with subsidiary protection applications were always intended to be temporary pending the enactment of the Immigration, Residence and Protection Bill 2010. Work on the Bill is ongoing at the Department pursuant to current Government policy, which is committed under the Programme for National Recovery,...

Financial Resolution No. 34: General (Resumed) (8 Dec 2010)

Fergus O'Dowd: ...should be driving forward the improvements in education that are not happening. We need to look again at what is happening in many of our schools, particularly in urban areas where we have a large immigrant population. In some schools, 35% of the intake come from homes where English is not the first language. Cutbacks in education affect resources as children move up through primary...

Written Answers — Visa Applications: Visa Applications (10 Nov 2010)

Fergus O'Dowd: Question 208: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the number of international students that are registered with the Garda National Immigration Bureau and Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service in tabular form; the percentage of these students that attend English language colleges, further education colleges and higher education colleges; and if he will make a statement on...

Education (Amendment) Bill 2010: Second Stage (13 Oct 2010)

Fergus O'Dowd: ...schools which competed on a level playing field with other schools. It is important that the new VEC primary schools envisaged under the Bill should not all be established in areas where large immigrant populations exist or where certain economic indicators apply. They should not merely become schools for ethnic minorities or for those who live in areas of high unemployment. There should...

Aviation (Preclearance) Bill 2009 [Seanad]: Second Stage (30 Jun 2009)

Fergus O'Dowd: ...region. As a result of this legislation, which provides for the creation of preclearance areas in Dublin and Shannon airports, passengers at those airports will be able to pass through US customs, immigration and security checks in Ireland before they depart for the United States. It is anticipated that this measure will have a positive effect on the travelling experiences of such...

Pupil-Teacher Ratio: Motion. (16 May 2006)

Fergus O'Dowd: ...houses on development land make no real contribution to necessary infrastructure, particularly in education. This needs to change. As our population changes, particularly as the numbers of new immigrants increase, primary and secondary schools have an important role to play in integrating different communities, religions and races. Ireland is fast becoming a multicultural society. I laud...