Results 1-20 of 42 for immigration speaker:Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2024)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...about the EU asylum and migration pact. I appeal to the Taoiseach to facilitate the maximum amount of debate in this House on a serious matter. The Government has made a shambles of the whole immigration area. Communities all across this State have been failed. The asylum seekers themselves are being failed. We are asking for the maximum participation and opportunity for those of us...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Ireland's Skills Needs: Discussion (13 Nov 2018)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ..., to try to make some practical changes. Towards the end of Mr. Donohoe's presentation, he brought attention to this issue of greater collaboration between the Department and the Garda National Immigration Bureau, GNIB, and the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service, INIS. Has he made representation to the Departments on this issue and what has been their response?

Seanad: Agricultural Issues: Statements (24 Jan 2018)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: .... All of this is the result of intentional policies both in Ireland and at European level. In the Visitors Gallery we have Mr. Ciaran Staunton, a respected and well known campaigner on the rights of Irish immigrants in the United States. However, he is also campaigning on the rights of emigrants returning to Ireland, something we always said we wanted. Government policy repeatedly has...

International Protection Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...the Separated Children in Europe programme and the UNHCR's definition of separated children. This definition was also recommended by the Irish Human Rights Commission in its observations on the 2008 version of the Immigration, Residence and Protection Bill. The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and the UNHCR also define both separated children and unaccompanied minors in their...

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

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: This Bill promised to ensure asylum seekers were treated with respect and humanity within a framework of more efficient immigration procedures and safeguards. While Sinn Féin welcomes these attempts, the Bill fails to achieve those aims. It fails to embed the principle of the best interests of the child and the attendant weaknesses which will potentially expose children to harm. It...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (24 Nov 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 337. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons registered and issued with immigration stamps under the last Syrian Humanitarian Admission Programme. [41652/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (4 Nov 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...Acosta. The petitioner is a Colombian national and his wife is Spanish. He states that when he arrived at Cork Airport on 19 July, an official stamped his passport with a work restriction notice and entered him into the immigration system. If the petitioner is correct in the information he provided within his petition then under EU Directive 2004/38/EC - on the right of citizens of the...

EU Council Decisions on Measures in the Area of International Protection: Motions (1 Oct 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...is not going to go to away any time soon. We need to develop a national action plan. That plan should be both short-term and long-term focused. The Government should immediately set up a working group, made up of immigration experts. Some of what I am calling for may already be happening. I will set out the points, as we put them forward before these measures were taken. As stated,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Office of the Ombudsman Reports: Mr. Peter Tyndall (30 Sep 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...to the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, drawing particular attention to the matters of extending the jurisdiction of the Ombudsman's office to cover direct provision and bringing the immigration system in line with Mr. Justice McMahon's report and the committee's report. I also propose that we note the ongoing discussions on clinical judgments and that we hope to see a...

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

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...in small numbers and resettle there is alarm. What can be done collectively to communicate the facts and not the myths? This is not unique to Ireland - many political parties are elected on anti-immigration policies across Europe. In what ways can these matters be better explained to our population?

Direct Provision Report: Motion (12 Jun 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ....He went on to say:The long-standing position of my Office is that the current exclusion to the investigatory remit of the Office in relation to the administration of the law regarding asylum and immigration relates only to decisions on status; my Office believes everything else - including issues regarding accommodation, administration processes and internal complaint handling - are in...

Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2014 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 May 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...this area. The clearest example of this in recent years was the case of Frank McBrearty from my county of Donegal. He tried to enter the US with his family and was refused entry by the US authorities because according to US immigration records, he had a conviction for assault despite the fact that the conviction had been overturned and he was found to be innocent of the charges levelled...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Controls (28 Apr 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide a breakdown of the number of inspections of language schools and schools for international students carried out by the Garda National Immigration Bureau in each year from 2010 to 2014 and in 2015 to date; and the number of suspensions or closures that have resulted from these inspections. [16596/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Controls (15 Apr 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 366. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide a breakdown of the number of Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service inspections of language schools, for each year from 2010 to 2015; the number of suspensions or closures that have resulted from these inspections; and the number of visas cancelled as a result of finding the students have not been attending class as...

Other Questions: Anti-Racism Measures (2 Apr 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Yesterday we had a presentation before the Oireachtas justice committee about the issue of migrants in Ireland. I think the name of the organisation making the presentation was the Immigration Control Platform. The views being put to our committee were not popular with the committee. I said I would guarantee that when the committee's proceedings were reported on thejournal.iein the...

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

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: ...empirical evidence which was backed up by research, preferably from a university, to support Ms Ní Chonaill's proposition that the State would lose out economically by regularising the position of immigrants. However, I will move on and put my final question. In Ms Ní Chonaill's view, should all of the hundreds of thousands of Irish emigrants working illegally in the United...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Person or Number?2: Crosscare (25 Feb 2015)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: We are here to deal with the Crosscare report, Person or Number?2, a second examination of issues faced by immigrants in accessing social protection. I remind all of those present, including committee members, that mobile telephones and other devices should be turned off completely or switched to flight or safe mode, because they interfere with the sound system and the meeting is being...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Direct Provision: Discussion (22 Oct 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I welcome Ms Karen McHugh of Doras Luimní, an organisation based in Limerick which works to support and promote the rights of immigrants, and Mr. Greg Straton of SPIRASI, a non-governmental organisation working with asylum seekers, refugees and disadvantaged migrant groups. I thank both delegates for their submissions which have been circulated to members and for agreeing to make a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Direct Provision: Discussion (22 Oct 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: We will hear presentations by four agencies involved in the provision of services for immigrants and those seeking asylum, protection or residency in Ireland. We will hear from the Anti-Deportation Agency, the Irish Refugee Council, Doras Luimní and Spiritan Asylum Services Initiative, SPIRASI. We have received correspondence from the Minister of State responsibility for new...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Office of the Ombudsman Remit (24 Sep 2014)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: 16. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to extend the oversight powers of the Ombudsman’s office to cover our prisons and our immigration system including our direct provision centres. [35406/14]