Results 1-14 of 14 for immigration speaker:Danny Healy-Rae

European Union Migration and Asylum Pact: Motion [Private Members] (1 May 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...have a scenario these days whereby the Minister for Justice is proposing to put in some clause where she can send asylum seekers or whatever back to the UK. What facilities does the Garda National Immigration Bureau have? It is responsible for deportations, border control and investigations relating to illegal immigration. The GNIB is very thin on the ground. The Government does not...

Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Second Stage (10 Apr 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...people who are paying more than €1 per litre for excise duty and carbon tax. The Government is getting €1 for every litre and it is still not satisfied. It wants to charge more. Already, €2.5 billion is being spent on immigration and €860,000 for bringing dogs and cats from abroad into Ireland and assisting people to bring these pets. There is no shame in...

Taoiseach a Ainmniú - Nomination of Taoiseach (9 Apr 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...years. Businesses are closing. In Killarney, another restaurant has closed today because of the increase in VAT and energy and rates costs. The Government has failed completely on housing. In the immigration debacle, more than €2 billion has been spent. The Government even spent €860,000 to bring dogs and cats into the country for these immigrants. The Government is...

Services for those Seeking Protection in Ireland: Statements (30 Jan 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: This is a very important debate about co-ordination of services. I am concerned over how the Minister, Deputy Coveney, and Fianna Fáil Deputies are trying to confuse the debate by talking about immigrants who come here working. I have respect for all those people who come here working - as much as the Minister, Deputy Coveney, or anybody else. I have employed people from every part of...

Policing, Protests and Public Order: Statements (28 Nov 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...the communities I have been elected to represent, regardless of what is thrown at me inside here. Maybe the Government is not listening enough on certain issues such as healthcare, housing, immigration and policing. We have to appreciate our gardaí for the great work they do. I ask the Minister if the gardaí are operating with one hand tied behind their backs. It seems to...

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (31 Jan 2023)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...to get the opportunity to say a few words on this, although my time is short. It appears the Government is deliberately blocking the public from having any voice when it comes to the Government's immigration policy, which is all over the place. This is clearly being dictated to us by unelected bureaucrats in Brussels and we cannot have a debate in here because we are held back from doing...

Provision of Accommodation and Ancillary Services to Applicants for International Protection: Statements (13 Nov 2019)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...will arise if there are not enough doctors or schools. It is not just about acquiring a building, putting a lot of people into it and saying they will be all right. That is not fair on the immigrants who are coming or on the communities they are arriving into. We have multidenominational people from all over the world in Killarney. I have to mention the Bangladeshi people who are...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Nov 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: The numbers are down because of immigration.

Post-European Council Meetings: Statements (24 Oct 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...to her ability to dance, for which she would not win any medals either. The problem is that when the English people voted in that referendum to get out of Europe it was basically to sort out the immigration problem that they have and that they still think they have. 3 o’clock It is hard to understand how some sort of backstop would ever be accommodated by them. The MPs are...

United States Immigration Policy: Motion (20 Jun 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: I deplore the separation of immigrant children from their parents. That goes against the grain of humane behaviour. I would not condone it and I deplore it. We are depending on the same government led by President Trump to be lenient with Irish immigrants to the US who have played a major part in building America since the 1700s when many of our forefathers went there on the coffin ships...

Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Apr 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...;11,600. She has spent 24 and a half years of her life in this country. Why is a limit being put on her such that she must be in the country for the past three years? Is this rule intended to apply to immigrants from other countries? It should not apply to people who were bred, born and reared in our country and who spent the most part of their lives here and will not even be able to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Border Counties: Discussion (29 Mar 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...with it. The South of Ireland is in Europe and all the Europeans have direct access to the South of Ireland. England voted for Brexit because they wanted to keep out a certain amount of those immigrants or whatever. Surely they will not accept that the immigrants that they do not want to come in to their country would be allowed in here to the South of Ireland and walk up over the...

European Council Meeting: Statements (5 Jul 2016)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...Northern Ireland. Relations between us have been running smoothly since the checkpoints were removed and we want this to continue. At the same time, we need to ensure that we do not take in more immigrants or refugees than we can afford or house. I have nothing against refugees but we can only house so many of them. As Members will be aware, many of our own people cannot find homes and...

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

Danny Healy-Rae: ...the move down the road somewhat, then maybe they would change their minds. It is clear to me why the people in England voted in this way. It was mainly to do with rules from Europe and the immigration problem. They took the view that the politicians were not listening to them and this was their way of getting the message across. People are concerned about what this will mean for the...