Results 1-9 of 9 for immigration speaker:Sorca Clarke

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 May 2023)

Sorca Clarke: ...months. The European directive for Ukrainian refugees may be in place for another two years. We have a broken direct provision service but what is also now rapidly emerging is an almost two-tier immigration system. In fairness, past and present governments failed to meet that deepening crisis on both fronts. We urgently need to see an operational plan to invest, operationalise and...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (10 May 2022)

Sorca Clarke: 640. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí by rank attached to the Garda National Immigration Bureau as of 1 May 2021 and 1 May 2022, in tabular form. [23111/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Apr 2022)

Sorca Clarke: ...work, through ministerial consent, not included in the INIS domestic violence guidelines? We need to have very clear pathways for protection, support and care for these migrant women who are reliant on our immigration system. That seems to be lacking at the moment. Does the Minister believe the third strategy adequately provides and protects migrant women and immigrant victims of DSGBV?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Apr 2022)

Sorca Clarke: .... In Dr. Mbugua's opinion, what does this look like? What does the model that meets the need look like? She is correct to speak of those pathways to protections and supports in relation to our immigration system. I fail to see the logic in telling somebody they can have an independent stamp 3 visa while at the same time refusing them access to employment in order to support themselves...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (3 Feb 2022)

Sorca Clarke: ...Protection the reason a person (details supplied) while born abroad and is now an Irish citizen with a full employment record, was asked to provide documentation submitted to the Garda National Immigration Bureau while applying for paternity benefit given that their contribution record would be on file with her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59978/21]

Criminal Justice (Smuggling of Persons) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (4 Nov 2021)

Sorca Clarke: ...must accompany this legislation and that those who engage with people who have been trafficked are trained to a standard that does not inadvertently increase or compound trauma. The Garda National Immigration Bureau needs additional resources and training that is regularly updated in line with best practice, as does the International Protection Office, INIS social workers and the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Emigrant Support Services: Discussion (13 Jul 2021)

Sorca Clarke: ...the radar, becoming further isolated from the community." Has that started to change with the roll-out of vaccinations and the easing of restrictions? Are those people coming back? All illegal immigrants, from any country, come with a certain level of vulnerability. When there is a centre from which they can obtain support, to hear they are pulling away and retreating from that I find...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Support Services (10 Nov 2020)

Sorca Clarke: 603. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason the immigration office in County Longford closed; and when it is due to reopen. [34784/20]