Results 1-20 of 36 for immigration speaker:Mick Barry

Ceisteanna - Questions: An Garda Síochána (30 Apr 2024)

Mick Barry: There are currently delays of up to four or five months to obtain an appointment for an Irish residence permit at the Cork city immigration office at the Anglesea Street Garda station. This is causing havoc for people from outside the European Economic Area, including problems with employers and landlords and with opening bank accounts. For some, it makes it impossible to travel home for...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (24 Apr 2024)

Mick Barry: ...to a betrayal of Harvey and his family. In recent days, Harvey's mother was shocked to see an image of her son online, accompanied by a racist post saying that resources are being allocated to immigrants while children like Harvey languish on waiting lists. To her credit, Harvey's mother replied to the post and dismantled the racist arguments. For her efforts, she was bombarded with...

Disability Justice: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2024)

Mick Barry: ...supports, forced out of education and twice as likely to leave school early; and — more likely to suffer ill health, with 25 per cent reporting "bad or very bad health", 43 per cent depression, and a quarter have unmet health needs; — disabled people who are women, non-binary, LGBTQI, immigrants, members of the Traveller community, or other ethnic groups face additional...

Ceapachán an Taoisigh agus Ainmniú Chomhaltaí an Rialtais - Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (9 Apr 2024)

Mick Barry: ...been too left for too long. If he decides to join his 11 Fine Gael colleagues and exit politics at the next election, he might make a good alternative career in stand-up comedy. A more right-wing stance on immigration, law and order and climate might have consequences the Deputy has not considered. Isaac Newton once said, for every action in nature, there is an equal and opposite...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (20 Mar 2024)

Mick Barry: 826. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to publish the waiting times for the renewal of IRP cards at the immigration office in Anglesea Street Garda station, Cork; if she will consider measures to speed up renewal applications; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12068/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (7 Dec 2023)

Mick Barry: ...a worker on €250 a week with two years' contributions will be €47.30 a week worse off. Who will be hit the hardest by this? Part-time workers, those who reduce hours to care for dependants, and young people and immigrants who have not built up their contributions. Why is the Minister of State supporting a scheme that will reduce the social welfare entitlements of the...

Immigration: Motion [Private Members] (6 Dec 2023)

Mick Barry: ...tweet from Conor McGregor after the conviction of Ashling Murphy's killer. McGregor has 1.7 million followers on X, formerly Twitter, very many of them young men. McGregor has been demanding that immigrants who commit crimes should be deported. If enforced in the United States, by the way, this would lead to the deportation of McGregor himself. In 2018, he pleaded guilty to disorderly...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Nov 2023)

Mick Barry: ...no problem joining a blockade of asylum seekers due to be provided with accommodation in the town. He made the statement while standing alongside a far-right agitator with a long track record of anti-immigrant rhetoric and activity. The mayor has since made what I consider to be a mealy-mouthed apology for his comments. He made that apology under pressure and only after the riots of...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Workplace Discrimination (7 Nov 2023)

Mick Barry: ...atypical working scheme. A visa only allows a person to live legally in this country for a period of six months. After this, a nurse receives a personal identification number, PIN, which they take to immigration to secure a work permit that lasts for a year. How vulnerable does this make a worker who has been trained by a manager who might be racist, and who in effect has the power not...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (28 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: Teaching English as a second language is a key task and challenge for our infant and primary schools, given the increased levels of immigration, but the policy of the Department of Education - the Taoiseach's Government policy - is making the task of the schools far more difficult and has the potential to prove very divisive. Until recently, the norm has been for children to be entitled to...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (21 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: 1058. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of times checkpoints were carried out to check the immigration status of people in 2022; the number of persons that were asked for identification under which legislation these checkpoints were carried out; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12637/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (7 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: ...need to be improved for them as well as for the new arrivals in communities. This is in the interests both of refugees and existing communities alike. Zero ammunition must be provided to anti-immigration agitators on this score. I ask the Taoiseach to reply on the issue of the plans for consultation and investment.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (7 Mar 2023)

Mick Barry: 16. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee dealing with immigration will next meet. [11020/23]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2023)

Mick Barry: ...to prominence through their organisational support for anti-refugee protests, but who are they? The largest such party is the National Party. It is described by the Far Right Observatory as being anti-immigrant, anti-LGBTQ+, and white nationalist. Its leader has attended meetings of European neo-Nazi groups. The observatory lists about a dozen such groups and remarks that many have...

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (6 Apr 2022)

Mick Barry: ...referendums but who must now face the horrors of another Orbán Government. The LGBTQ community in Hungary is not the only community that faces repression at the hands of the Orbán Government. Immigrants face racist laws, while organised workers face his anti-union laws. Others can suffer at the hands of that Government as well. I note the EU intervention but the key to...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Support Services (19 Oct 2021)

Mick Barry: ...the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason her Department has not succeeded in closing down an online operation (details supplied) that automatically books interview slots with immigration services and then sells on these slots at a €40 charge to migrants with a genuine need for a face-to-face appointment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50738/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (19 Oct 2021)

Mick Barry: 697. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the Garda National Immigration Bureau can agree to a face-to-face appointment with an Egyptian national (details supplied]) who was recently granted a change of status but is required by the Egyptian authorities to have an up-to-date visa sticker on their recently renewed Egyptian passport if they are to be permitted to...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (25 Feb 2021)

Mick Barry: ...of the Government's proposals. Two such organisations are the Irish Council for Civil Liberties and Nasc, the Migrant and Refugee Rights Centre, an organisation which campaigns in respect of the rights of immigrants and asylum seekers. Serious concerns have been raised about giving the power to detain people without trial for two weeks not just to the State but to hotel managers. There...

Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2020: Second Stage (11 Nov 2020)

Mick Barry: ...Instead, we need the coming together of working class people in common struggle on their common interests across the sectarian divide. That is needed now more than ever. I will make some points about immigrants and immigrant rights. Neither the European Union nor the British Government can be trusted on the issue of the rights of immigrants. The European Union operates a fortress...

Irish Nationality and Citizenship (Citizenship for Children) Bill 2020: First Stage (24 Sep 2020)

Mick Barry: ...to apply for work permits or other organisations to work here. In his reply, the Minister stated that in order to work in the State, all non-EEA citizens require a valid employment permit or relevant immigration permission issued by the Minister for Justice and Equality. Therefore, young people born in this country face the prospect of having to apply for work permits in order to work in...