Results 1-17 of 17 for immigration speaker:Brian Stanley

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 May 2024)

Brian Stanley: ...Ms Oonagh McPhillips, Secretary General of the Department of Justice, dated 19 April. It provides follow-up information requested at the meeting of 29 February 2024. It includes information on immigration, visa processing, international protection, citizenship processing, carrier liability, the Prison Service and the Probation Service. It proposed to note and publish this item. Is that...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024)

Brian Stanley: ...from the Department of Justice: Ms Oonagh McPhillips, Secretary General; Mr. Doncha O'Sullivan, deputy Secretary General; Mr. John O'Callaghan, deputy Secretary General; Mr. Richard Dixon, director of immigration services and chief international protection officer; Ms Caron McCaffrey, director general of the Irish Prison Service; Mr. Derek Caldbeck, director of finance and estates at the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2023)

Brian Stanley: .... Is that agreed? Agreed. I flagged this because some detailed breakdowns are provided concerning the effectiveness of the systems the Department has in place, their efficiency in respect of immigration and responses from the Department. I bring these points to the attention of the members. No. R1986B is from Mr. Kevin McCarthy, Secretary General of the Department of Children,...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023)

Brian Stanley: ...General, civil pillar; Mr. John O'Callaghan, deputy Secretary General, criminal pillar; Mr. Aonghus O'Connor, principal officer, finance and procurement; and Mr. William O'Dwyer, principal officer, immigration service delivery. We are also joined from the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform by Mr. Daniel O'Callaghan, principal officer. They are...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023)

Brian Stanley: There is an immigrant investor programme unit. Is that within the Department? It is referred to in the document.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023)

Brian Stanley: -----I presume they are brought to one side and a garda and immigration officers arrive at that stage.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023)

Brian Stanley: If a garda or immigration officer questions people, though, and that is the only answer given, unless they look at a spot on the wall for two days, surely a better answer will be elicited.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023)

Brian Stanley: I want to ask about people entering. Obviously, we are an island and people have to come through a port or an airport. Ms McPhillips mentioned there was a figure in excess of 40% arriving at the immigration centres who have not come through a port, whether an airport or seaport.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023)

Brian Stanley: I know. I do not expect Ms McPhillips to do so. I am just trying to understand how the system works. The point where people come to the immigration centre and are fingerprinted, etc., is really the checkpoint after which one can start to process.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023)

Brian Stanley: ...trying to understand how a fine would be imposed if the asylum seeker, we will say mingles or whatever, and is confused about which airplane they got off and the first place they show up is at the immigration desk. How is the airline they came on picked out? How is that resolved?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection - Social Insurance Fund 2021
Chapter 10: Regularity of social welfare payments
Chapter 11: The recovery of benefit and assistance payments following compensation awards
Chapter 14: Classification of workers for PRSI purposes (1 Dec 2022)

Brian Stanley: ...huge accommodation crisis and we are talking about bringing another cohort on top of that without trying to max out the number that can be employed from people fleeing the war in Ukraine and other immigrants in the country.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services Regulation (26 Apr 2016)

Brian Stanley: 104. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the list of prohibited countries, described as such by Bank of Ireland, which is used as the criteria for immigrants from those listed countries to open bank accounts. [8239/16]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Electoral Commission: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (10 Mar 2015)

Brian Stanley: ...Minister's predecessor told me one day that we had close to 7 million PPS numbers, far in excess of the number of people living in the State. The huge number of PPS numbers can be accounted for by emigration, immigrants returning to their countries and various other reasons. We need to look at other models and to take a new approach. Regardless of what we do about an electoral...

Central Bank Bill 2014: Second Stage (9 Apr 2014)

Brian Stanley: ...particularly those who are less well off in Greek society. Unfortunately, it has aided the creation of far-right organisations which have targeted some of the most vulnerable people in Greek society, including immigrants. That is a shocking development, so it is only right that the accrued interest is returned to the Greek people. When the heads of the Bill were before the finance...

Equal Status (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (3 Jul 2013)

Brian Stanley: ...of even being associated with trade unionism, never mind joining a union. In particular, this problem prevails in the meat industry, where some employers in their race to the bottom to increase profits have employed immigrants on a minimum wage - in some cases it is reported to be even less - and proceeded to isolate them form the rest of the workforce. When unions attempt to engage...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (6 Mar 2013)

Brian Stanley: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the date on which he will publish the Immigration, Residence and Protection Bill; if it will contain a single determination procedure, long-term residence status as well as procedures for the registration of non-Irish national minors under 16. [11552/13]

Community and Voluntary Sector: Motion (11 Oct 2011)

Brian Stanley: ...that there are 7,500 charitable, community and voluntary groups providing essential services to children, older people, people with disabilities or ill-health, vulnerable people, drug users, women, immigrants, travellers and other ethnic minority groups; — commends the sector for being a tireless advocate for communities dealing with some of Ireland's most serious social and economic...