Results 1-20 of 35 for immigration speaker:Michael McNamara

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 May 2024)

Michael McNamara: ...offence [...] in the UK and was in consequence registered as a sex offender. It appears that this information had been redacted by reason of data protection concerns before being placed on [his] immigration file. It also states: an "alert" was subsequently created on the 14th of January, 2022 on Applicant A's file [...] on the Minister’s database. It seems that it was only on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Michael McNamara: ...is not that much bigger. France transferred 3,311 people. Will the Minister explain the massive discrepancy between the ability of the German and French departments of justice to implement their immigration policy and our ability to implement ours? It is the same system. How come they are able to operate it and we are not?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Michael McNamara: I asked for this figure two months ago and the Minister said she would give it to me when she had it to hand. She still does not have it to hand. Does she have any handle on immigration? Does the Department have a handle on it? I do not mean the Minister personally. Does the Department have a handle on what is happening in immigration in Ireland?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Michael McNamara: ...prosecute this offence? Is not the real problem that Ireland is being criticised by the Council of Europe Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment for having no immigration detention facilities? It correctly states that it is wholly inappropriate for people who have committed immigration violations to be housed with general remand...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (24 Jan 2024)

Michael McNamara: 160. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality how many files were prepared for the DPP in respect of suspected offences contrary to section 11 of the Immigration Act 2004 in 2023. [3209/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (24 Jan 2024)

Michael McNamara: 161. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality how many prosecutions in respect of alleged offences contrary to section 11 of the Immigration Act 2004 in 2023. [3210/24]

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

Michael McNamara: In 2023, 3,285 people presented at Dublin Airport without valid travel documents. In 2022, the figure was 4,968. Under section 11 of the Immigration Act 2004, it is an offence to embark in Ireland without valid travel documents. This appears to me to be a strict liability offence. It does not really matter what someone's intention is or what the reasons are, it is an offence. If the...

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

Michael McNamara: ...are people who are in breach of a strict liability offence not being prosecuted in the State? Who is giving the order not to do so? Is it coming from senior Garda management, the Garda National Immigration Bureau, GNIB, or the Government? The law is not being applied. This brings the law into disrepute at some point. The question is not why people are allowed to claim asylum. I know...

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 (17 Jan 2024)

Michael McNamara: ...the one hand, the Minister stated that the protections of the Constitution are a shield that protect the rights of a family and on the other hand he states it will not have any impact whatsoever on immigration law. I do not see how that can be the case because one of the most basic fundamental rights of a family is to live together, not necessarily in Ireland. That is what a lot of...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (17 Jan 2024)

Michael McNamara: 996. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality how many prosecutions have been initiated in respect of alleged offences under section 11 of the Immigration Act 2004; the outcome of any such prosecutions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56309/23]

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Dec 2023)

Michael McNamara: ...it does to address the root cause of the problem. I find myself in agreement with much of what Deputy Connolly said. She spoke of the similarities between planning and access to An Bord Pleanála and immigration judicial reviews. Various Ministers for Justice have said the problem with immigration in Ireland is that we just cannot deal with the challenges so we should tinker...

Policing, Protests and Public Order: Statements (28 Nov 2023)

Michael McNamara: ...tell us what we can and cannot talk about. I find that perverse and deeply disturbing. Just as Deputy O'Callaghan says he is representing his constituents, I have many constituents with concerns about immigration. They are not racists or bigots. They are not looking to riot or to subvert the rule of law but they have concerns and we need to discuss those concerns because we are elected...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2023)

Michael McNamara: ...being housed. I am not expecting the impossible but communities are entitled to know what the plan to develop services is because nobody is expecting the war to end tomorrow. Nobody is expecting immigration to end tomorrow. What is the plan or is there a plan? I am not looking to blame anybody here but we need an all-of-government approach because we need to make sure that the...

National Minimum Wage (Equal Pay for Young Workers) Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 Jun 2023)

Michael McNamara: ...We are really regressing as a society in a variety of ways. It is having impacts on many sectors that could not be foreseen. It is driving hostilities in communities around resources and around immigration. It is having a huge impact. The grouping I met did not say they were the lucky ones but they spoke about having to work and save up to pay for accommodation. In a way, that would...

Employment Permits Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Michael McNamara: ...we look at when determining whether it is in the best interests of the State to deport somebody is his or her employment prospects. I have seen numerous decisions as a practitioner in the area of immigration where it was said that their employment prospects were poor because it is not lawful for them to work. Of course their lawful employment prospects were poor if they could not...

Health (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (2 Dec 2021)

Michael McNamara: ...did it achieve other than maybe to act as a deterrent to people from certain countries coming to Ireland? If that is what it is about, let us be honest about it. Let us say we want to prevent immigration from certain states in southern Africa, because that is all it will potentially achieve. I do not think the idea of entering mandatory hotel quarantine is necessarily a huge deterrent...

Criminal Justice (Smuggling of Persons) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Dec 2021)

Michael McNamara: ...in the State". The "State" is Ireland and its territorial waters. If somebody lets the person drown, he or she has not assisted that person anywhere. I appreciate that we want to discourage immigration and the European Union wants to discourage immigration. However, my question is this. By assisting somebody, even if it is as a humanitarian act, even if it is the smuggled person who...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Data (28 Jan 2021)

Michael McNamara: 217. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if de facto partnership immigration permission applications are currently being processed by her Department; if so, the unit processing same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4862/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Data (28 Jan 2021)

Michael McNamara: 218. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the average length of time between receipt of a complete de facto partnership immigration permission application in 2020 and the provision of a decision on the application; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4863/21]

An Bille um an Seachtú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Cearta Geilleagracha, Comhdhaonnacha agus Cultúir), 2018: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution (Economic, Social and Cultural Rights) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 Jan 2021)

Michael McNamara: ...we are now. We talk about human rights on the Security Council while we do not do enough to ameliorate breaches of rights in our own State. We cannot have it both ways. It is a bit like our failure to deal with immigration or document the undocumented in Ireland while being euphoric that Joe Biden will somehow do something for the undocumented Irish in America. That sort of hypocrisy,...