Results 1-6 of 6 for immigration speaker:Barry Cowen
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Immigrant Investor Programme (28 Jul 2020)
Barry Cowen: ...in Offaly and the midlands region in response to ongoing employment losses in Bord na Móna and the ESB. Some of the investors involved in the project subsequently made applications under the immigrant investor programme, which is open to applicants who invest more than €1 million. This programme is described by the Government in its official records as an incentive for...
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigrant Investor Programme Data (23 Jan 2018)
Barry Cowen: 262. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number and value of immigrant investor programme applications for social housing investment and nursing home investment in 2017; his plans to review thresholds to the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3112/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigrant Investor Programme Data (23 Jan 2018)
Barry Cowen: 263. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number and value of immigrant investor programme applications per annum since 2012 under each investment option; his plans to review thresholds to the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3113/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigrant Investor Programme Data (7 Nov 2017)
Barry Cowen: 528. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number and value of investments made in the area of social and affordable housing by investors under the immigration investor programme since 2012; and his views on whether the doubling of the applications threshold from €500,000 to €1 million in 2017 will deprive the State of investment in social housing...
- Direct Provision Report: Motion (12 Jun 2015)
Barry Cowen: ...be dealt with. In particular, the early years of children are impacted by unsuitable living conditions in the direct provision facilities for families. In 2010, Fianna Fáil sought to pass the Immigration, Residence and Protection Bill 2010, which allowed for a new single and integrated process of application for protection, replacing applications for refugee status, subsidiary...
- An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Votáil Uachtaráin) 2014: An Dara Céim [Private Members] - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Presidential Voting) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (11 Mar 2015)
Barry Cowen: ...to further acknowledge that since he has taken up that role, like many Ministers for Foreign Affairs and Trade before him, he has engaged and consulted widely with the diaspora, various stakeholders, immigrant support groups and successful entities, bodies and companies which have Irish backgrounds and are very committed to Irish projects in terms of the assistance they can provide. It is,...