Results 1-12 of 12 for immigration speaker:Gino Kenny

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: EU Agreements (23 Apr 2024)

Gino Kenny: ...to whip up division not only in Ireland but across the EU. I believe this pact erodes the fundamental pillars of the EU, which are about human rights. This degrades human rights in terms of immigrants' rights in coming to the EU.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Apr 2024)

Gino Kenny: ...House. I ask people who use this language to think again given the horrible stuff going on in our country at this time. Does the Taoiseach agree that this rhetoric is trickling down, not only to immigrants coming into this country-----

Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2024)

Gino Kenny: ...does not support that. He is a decent person, but surely he could not support the way those people were treated last weekend. The majority of people in Ireland are very decent. We understand immigration. We understand that it is incredible we have empty State-owned buildings that people can use. They could be used, even in an emergency situation. Regardless of where they come from,...

Recent Arson Attacks: Statements (27 Feb 2024)

Gino Kenny: ...people living on our streets without shelter. It is unbelievable that, as a very wealthy country, we cannot even provide these people with shelter to keep dry and warm. The positive aspects of immigration have touched every village and town in Ireland. I am very proud to be from a country whose people have welcomed other people in the vast majority of cases. I listened last night to...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (18 Apr 2023)

Gino Kenny: 86. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he is aware of long delays at the Immigration Service Delivery, ISD, formerly the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service, in response to citizenship applications; that this issue is one of great importance to thousands of individuals and their families and creates real consequential limitations on their lives in...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (14 Jun 2022)

Gino Kenny: ..., if those tax credits can be kept and assigned to their correct identification in cases in which they are granted permission to stay given that this concern could not be answered by the Irish Immigration Service website or by legal advice sought (details supplied). [29137/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Schemes (14 Jun 2022)

Gino Kenny: ...Equality if a person who obtained a personal public service number, PPSN, by using false identification can apply for the undocumented scheme given that this concern could not be answered by the Irish Immigration Service's website or by legal advice sought (details supplied). [29134/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Human Rights (24 Jun 2021)

Gino Kenny: ...for them. In our organisation we hold solidarity against these particularly draconian laws, which are the anti-gay laws, in Hungary. Orbán has history in this. He has introduced laws against immigrants and against workers to cause division. This is not in isolation. The far right in this country have tried to do the same to malign people of different sexual orientation. This...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (21 Jul 2020)

Gino Kenny: ...and Equality if she will provide clarity in relation to the process of stamp 4 renewal for persons living outside of Dublin in particular; if she will address the issue of access to locally-based immigration officers which is difficult and or sporadic as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic and the pressure this is placing on employees that need renewals urgently; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Family Reunification (17 Dec 2019)

Gino Kenny: 275. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to the fact that for non-EEA families, immigration permissions here are tied to one partner or spouse allowing only them to work while the other family members are economically dependent; if his attention has been further drawn to the fact that this approach acts as a block to the mobility of...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Racial Profiling (17 Oct 2018)

Gino Kenny: 15. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his views on racial profiling used by the Garda National Immigration Bureau to identify persons it believes to be in the country illegally; the irresponsible reporting of these cases in the media and the impact it has on the lives and work of Irish nationals who fit the profiling; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

United Kingdom Referendum on European Union Membership: Statements (27 Jun 2016)

Gino Kenny: ...and of the British labour movement. By and large they remain Labour Party strongholds which suffered devastation under the Thatcher regime. It is a matter of undeniable fact that fears of immigration and racism were a running narrative in the debate on either remaining in or leaving the EU. However, the question is whether that was the main element. Many of the towns that typically...