Results 1-20 of 93 for immigration speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Education (19 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...best place in Europe to be a PhD student. Our PhD researchers, who are driving research and innovation and keeping our universities going, are living in poverty. Moreover, there are also the visa and immigration issues that many of them are facing and they would like to know what the Minister is going to do about them. He knows what the issues are.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (Resumed): Ministers for Finance and Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform (27 Sep 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I ask the Minister to consider this question and I do not expect an answer now. The CSO publishes figures, including those for immigration and migration. They show that there has been the highest level of emigration for many years at 65,000 people. We still have net migration. A lot of people are leaving. I presume many of them are young people and skilled. The Ministers should think...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2023: Discussion (12 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...not seen the latest figures on migration. They always seem to be a bit delayed but the Ministers might know more than we do. Does they know how many people are leaving the country? We have net immigration at the moment but I would like to know the figure for how many are leaving. Anecdotally, we hear lots of young people in college and so on saying they cannot afford to live here and...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (22 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...are leaving. It would be interesting to see the latest emigration figures. I do not know if the witnesses know what these are, but I think about 40,000 to 50,000 people were leaving. We have net immigration, but given that there are real labour shortages, would the witnesses accept that it would be fair to say that a good thing to do in the context of these surpluses would, possibly, to...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (22 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am aware there is net immigration, but I am still conscious there is also emigration.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (20 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 281. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment how a person (details supplied) can receive a permit for employment without immigration status, which is required for their worker's permit, but they cannot gain immigration status (stamp 1) without a worker's permit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29142/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (20 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 429. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality how a person (details supplied) may gain immigration status given that their stamp 1G visa has expired and they wish to continue working in Ireland with no need to pursue further education, but they have been refused a working permit on the grounds of immigration status; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29141/23]

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...phenomenon of advertisements appearing all over the country saying workers are wanted for this and that. There are shortages in every area of the economy. I have not seen the latest Central Statistics Office, CSO, figures on immigration but I suspect we will see a significant increase in the number of young people leaving, which was already running at about 45,000 to 50,000 people over...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Education (30 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 58. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has engaged with the Department of Justice regarding the national review of State supports for PhD researchers in relation to visa and immigration status of non-EEA PhD researchers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15747/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (7 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Currently, 13,000 Ukrainians who have come here seeking refuge are working and contributing to making Irish society a better place, which is what most immigrants want to do. There is a very significant obstacle for Ukrainians in particular in that many of them are single parents - women with children - and there is no childcare is available for them. We already have a problem here in this...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (7 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 17. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Immigration will next meet. [11361/23]

Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...obvious that the situation is getting dangerously worse. I do not want to dwell on this point too much, other than to say that it has been noted in communities around Dublin that some of the people behaving pretty shockingly towards immigrants and refugees have been tied into some of that stuff in an alarming way. That is a really dark and sinister development. We urgently need to grow...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (21 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...parties and many more. The first objective of that enormous demonstration was to send a clear message to the far right and those who want to use racism and want to scapegoat asylum seekers and immigrants that we reject their racist, poisonous and divisive message. The other message repeated again and again by those speaking at the demonstration was their anger at the failure of the...

Co-ordination of International Protection Services: Statements (16 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In 1908 Ireland's greatest revolutionary and an immigrant, James Connolly, said, "Let no Irishman throw a stone at the foreigner; he may hit his own clansman." That is as good a summary of the reasons why thousands of people will take to the streets of Dublin this weekend, involving dozens of organisations, trade unionists, community activists, antiracism activists, housing campaigners,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (8 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As was discussed earlier, far-right elements utterly without justification are trying to target vulnerable immigrants and migrants for the housing crisis. That is why, on 18 February, we need to get out on the Ireland for All demonstration which has been widely backed by trade union and community groups, anti-poverty groups, housing groups and many others. Simultaneously, we need emergency...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...of something else going on at the moment is that there are dark and sinister forces running around this city for the last few weeks who are claiming utterly falsely that vulnerable, desperate immigrants and asylum seekers are a threat to women and children in this State because they are foreigners. Those people need look no further than this House, the political institution that is...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (31 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 16. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee that deals with immigration and integration will next meet. [4426/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Programmes (8 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 833. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will request information from the Revenue Commissioners on the total amount remitted by investors of the immigrant investor programme to Ireland before they became resident in Ireland since 2012; the total amounts remitted each year since the inception of the scheme; and the total amount of tax collected from visa...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Programmes (8 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 872. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total amount remitted by investors of the immigrant investor programme to Ireland before they became resident in Ireland since 2012; the total amounts remitted each year since the inception of the scheme; and the total amount of tax collected from visa holders under the programme. [55084/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Programmes (8 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 873. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide details and a copy of the second phase of an external completed review report into the immigrant investors programme (details supplied). [55085/22]