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Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 May 2024)

Emer Currie: ..., the Senator said we need an Irish solution. We only have to look at what is happening in the UK to know that an Irish solution, taken by ourselves alone, will not work considering that illegal immigration, according to the UK, has very much increased since the UK's safety of Rwanda Bill was first put on the table by Priti Patel in 2022. This has eroded the UK's reputation on...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2024)

Emer Currie: I make an appeal for Members to stop using the catch-all title of "immigration" in this House, in the media, in commentary and in news items when we are talking about criminal and threatening behaviour in communities. Immigration should not be the headline topic. It should be racism and xenophobia.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2024)

Emer Currie: Language is important. If Members want to talk about illegal immigration and the systems in place to protect society from illegal immigration, let us do that. If they want to talk about international protection, a human rights obligation to give shelter to people who are running from persecution, then let us do that. If they want to talk about the critical skills list and the workers we...

Seanad: Recent Violence in Dublin City Centre: Motion (29 Nov 2023)

Emer Currie: ...their trams and buses, symbols of our State, destroyed, and to the public who were caught up in the sorry mess and experienced, maybe for the first time, what hate looks like when it is up close. Every immigrant now feels that he or she has a target on his or her back. Dublin has been tarnished by the events of the last six days. Two stories come to mind. One is that on Thursday...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Impact of the UK's Illegal Migration Act 2023 on the Good Friday Agreement: Discussion (16 Nov 2023)

Emer Currie: ...of visa divergences. Is Mr. Corrigan saying that this UK legislation heightens the potential consequences to a dramatic scale? In that past, there would have been uncertainty and fear about immigration controls and this legislation cements those with something very frightening in respect of what happens when a migrant or visa national comes across immigration control. It is not that...