Results 1-14 of 14 for immigration speaker:Patrick Costello

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Revised)
Vote 25 - Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (Revised) (30 Jan 2024)

Patrick Costello: I welcome the Minister and the Minister of State. I will pick up on a few things. I appreciate that the issue of immigration is very difficult. It is also not entirely within the control of the Department. While I welcome the positive changes the Minister and the Minister of State talk about, it is important to highlight that a lot of issues in other Departments need to be addressed if...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Policing Matters: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Nov 2023)

Patrick Costello: ..., the policing of protests. My concern is mostly around violent protest, which is not being policed effectively in any way. We have seen a rise in violent ethno-nationalist, homophobic and anti-immigration protests. If we go back to last year, Deputy Paul Murphy was assaulted outside the gates of Leinster House and it seems to many of us on the outside that nothing was done. We then...

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Human Trafficking) Bill 2023: Second Stage (4 Oct 2023)

Patrick Costello: ...victims and in arresting and convicting perpetrators. Anything that encourages people to come forward is essential. Anything that blocks them coming forward needs to be looked at. The issue of immigration status is something that is going to block people coming forward. It has been campaigned for that victims of trafficking, who are recognised as such, should have an immigration status...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Staff (3 Oct 2023)

Patrick Costello: 450. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of staff working directly in the processing of visa/immigration applications, by year, from 2010 to date; and the number of applications processed in each year, in tabular form. [42666/23]

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Child Protection: Discussion (20 Sep 2023)

Patrick Costello: ...us, is very clear. Ms Gallagher mentioned the gaps in the structures and the overreliance on the security and police structures. In 2015, in the case of P v.Chief Superintendent Garda National Immigration Bureau & Ors., Ms Justice O'Malley essentially tore apart the system as denying the basic rights of victims. Nothing has changed since then. We now have a proposal for the...

Central Statistics Office Sexual Violence Survey 2022: Statements (17 May 2023)

Patrick Costello: ...migrants and refugees in vulnerable communities. The CSO figures show that these false claims are just that, false. I reiterate that 78% of people knew the perpetrator personally. This is simply not a result of immigration. We must push back against those false narratives and dangerous lies. If somebody knows the perpetrator and they are known to them so well, why is there no justice?...

European Union Directive: Motion (19 Apr 2023)

Patrick Costello: ...doing enough. While I welcome that we are trying to upgrade and improve the EU anti-trafficking directive, I point out the judgment in the case of P v. Chief Superintendent of the Garda National Immigration Bureau & Ors. Ms Justice O'Malley was very clear in 2015 that the State had failed at that point to properly enact the directive as it stood at the time and that the State was...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Expenditure (30 Mar 2023)

Patrick Costello: 272. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total cost to the State of running Immigration Service Delivery, previously Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service, by year, from 2013 to date, excluding the International Protection Office service delivery. [15838/23]

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Integration and Refugee Issues: Discussion (21 Feb 2023)

Patrick Costello: ...issues are on the agenda, I always try to highlight that, for many of the organisers and ringleaders at the top of these kinds of movements, there is ultimately an anti-democratic issue. Behind immigration comes a broader racism, behind that comes homophobia and behind that a general misogyny. The kinds of issues we are talking about, such as hate crimes, attacks on women and women being...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Deportation Orders (26 Apr 2022)

Patrick Costello: 1248. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of positive decisions issued in applications for leave to remain on humanitarian grounds under section 3 of the Immigration Act 1999 from February 2019 to January 2022, by month. [19496/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Surrogacy in Ireland and in Irish and International Law: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Apr 2022)

Patrick Costello: ...today about pre-birth versus post-birth recognition of parentage and parentage orders. With regard to the child arriving in the jurisdiction, how does that work in terms of the UK's courts and immigration? Can intending parents get recognition? Can Ms Gamble talk about the difficulties around immigration status for international surrogacy?

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Experiences of Migrant Communities Engaging with the Healthcare System and State Bodies: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2021)

Patrick Costello: ...to this constitutional requirement. Therefore any member who attempts to participate in the meeting from outside the precincts will be refused. I welcome representatives from Crosscare and the Immigrant Council of Ireland. I welcome Sr. Breege Keenan, project leader, Crosscare refugee service; Mr. Noel Neenan, information and advocacy officer, housing and welfare information with...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Experiences of Migrant Communities Engaging with the Healthcare System and State Bodies: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2021)

Patrick Costello: I thank Sr. Breege Keenan. We will move onto Mr. Brian Killoran, CEO of the Immigrant Council of Ireland.