Results 1-20 of 26 for immigration speaker:Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Offices (20 Mar 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...of available accommodation places for international protection applicants? Is this audit now complete? What are its findings? When will we see the introduction of a fair, efficient and enforced immigration system?

Recent Arson Attacks: Statements (27 Feb 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...to be badly hurt or killed in one of these incidents. The people who undertake these actions must know they are taking enormous risks with people's welfare and lives. The context of this is immigration and migration. Sometimes the two are conflated. There are differences. In the minds of most people, they are part of the same discussion. I often think in trying to imagine where...

Social Welfare and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (31 Jan 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...protection directive, and Europe may legislate to extend it in some shape or form, then, as I said in committee, thought needs to be given to how people will come into line with the rest of Irish immigration legislation. They will be able to apply for international protection or they can apply for a visa. Some of them will go onto the international protection rail. While we are seeking...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (24 Sep 2019)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 225. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the immigration status of the persons who were adversely affected by the recent student recruitment agency closure; the measures to be put in place to ensure that international students are protected against another closure of this nature; the status of the investigation into the circumstances surrounding the closure of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Direct Provision and the International Protection Application Process: Discussion (Resumed) (29 May 2019)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ..., while it was far from perfect, the direct provision system had improved. I want to get the response of the representatives to that. Can they tell us about their experience of the Garda National Immigration Bureau and how that office conducts itself as well as the Garda generally? I am putting that question to both groups. I will have a final set of questions following that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Direct Provision and the International Protection Application Process: Discussion (22 May 2019)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...will eventually have to be housed. Would it not be better to provide accommodation for people quickly, whether through voluntary housing agencies, the local authorities or direct build? The Immigrant Council of Ireland touched on this issue. The most significant element of people's criticism and concern about the direct provision system is its significant human rights failings, although...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Direct Provision and the International Protection Application Process: Discussion (22 May 2019)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...or stay with friends and then find themselves homeless and seek readmission to direct provision centres that are not in a position to grant readmission. That problem was identified by the immigrant council. It has been said the matter is probably contrary to the recast directive. Does Mr. O'Neill consider it possible to predict trends in the coming years? Does he expect Brexit, with...

Civil Liability and Courts (Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (16 Apr 2019)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...who find it practically impossible to find an insurer to put them on the road and those who do receive quotes, they are out of control, particularly younger and older drivers. A particular category who receive quotes that are practically incomprehensible comprises returning immigrants. The joint committee found that the motor insurance industry had been deliberately hiding key...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2019: Discussion (27 Feb 2019)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...about what is and is not in the Bill. I will start with what is in the Bill. The Minister spoke about non-refoulement. In respect of section 88 and the proposal to insert new section 3B into the Immigration Act 1999, it appears to clarify that these provisions will apply to the period commencing on 31 December 2016. My understanding is that this area seeks to clarify an area that was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2019: Discussion (27 Feb 2019)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I thank the Minister. Heads 16 and 17 relate to data and information in regard to immigration and the GDPR which did not make it to the final draft of the Bill. Will those issues be dealt with in secondary legislation and, if not, on what basis are these provisions no longer required?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: International Protection (Family Reunification) (Amendment) Bill 2017: Discussion (6 Feb 2019)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...but it relates to the review. It has not been discussed much. Senator Kelleher or someone else might expand on this. Is there generally a need to review how reviews and appeals in the asylum and immigration field are handled? Do we need an overhaul of the legislation and the offices governing it? Are the witnesses of the view that persons applying for family reunification should be...

Irish Nationality and Citizenship (Restoration of Birthright Citizenship) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (17 Jan 2019)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...to take on board the message that is coming from Deputies and from the public as a whole. It needs to start figuring out how it will address this matter, affirm the rights these children should have and offer them protection from deportation. As we are speaking of legislation governing immigration, I will take the opportunity to express my concern at the utterly unworkable practice...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund: Motion (5 Dec 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...recently on the forthcoming local elections, which I hope will be taken as an oral question but so far it has not. The Department has done work regarding new Irish communities and, more generally, immigrant communities. I attended one of those events, which was good. By and large, that work is focused on those who have status. Those in direct provision who are seeking asylum in Ireland...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Oct 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...come to be in the possession of that journalist and newspaper? Surely information of this kind would have been contained in a Department of Justice and Equality or Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service, INIS, file. How else would it have been received by a journalist? Potentially, this seems to be a very serious data breach. If it is a data breach it suggests officials at the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Support Services (27 Sep 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 97. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the funding provided for immigration integration services in each year since 2011; the services provided with this targeted funding; the amount each service received in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39249/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (12 Jul 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 280. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí by rank attached to the immigration unit in the Cork city division in each of the years 2009 to 2017 and to date in 2018, in tabular form. [32342/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Immigrant Investor Programme and International Protection Applications: Discussion (11 Jul 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...processes are now in place to deal with the backlog and that it may be possible next year to bring it down to six months. In my experience, current delays are still lengthy. I understand from the Immigrant Council of Ireland that a response to a recent parliamentary question stated that in some instances there is a delay of 19 months until first correspondence. There are still...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Immigrant Investor Programme and International Protection Applications: Discussion (11 Jul 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...the people who make applications. The chief executive of Nasc said the International Protection Act 2015 means many refugees will have to move from the refugee family reunification process to the immigration framework. Under the framework, of every ten applications eight will be refused. It is not a specific question but I would like the witnesses to respond to it. There was a view...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Direct Provision System (5 Jul 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...and, while the Minister responded in a good spirit to the decision of the Supreme Court, it did ultimately take a Supreme Court decision to bring the Government into this space. I commend the Immigrant Council of Ireland, the Migrant Rights Council, Nasc, the Irish Immigrant Support Centre, the Movement of Asylum Seekers in Ireland, MASI, and many others. I particularly commend the...

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (17 May 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...dynamic and being reflective of the reality that exists. That is the reason for the ideal that there would be people from organisations dealing with victims, people in rape crisis situations, young offenders, immigrant communities and a wide variety of experiences. It is important that it is part of the commission and that it makes up a majority of the commission. There should be...