Results 1-20 of 29 for immigration speaker:Sharon Keogan

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Sharon Keogan: ...Ireland. People are coming in through Belfast and down into the Republic. What is happening to stop that flow? Nothing is happening. The Department of Justice is not working. The Department of immigration is not working. That is why we have the chaos we have on our streets today, with all those people out there in tents, and I do not believe it will get any better. I do not believe...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Mar 2024)

Sharon Keogan: ...those who witnessed these refugees being moved to the Dublin mountains, it made for harrowing scenes but this is the way of our Government. It disposes of the inconvenient; once out of sight, out of mind. Immigration rates are at a staggering high and exceeded 100,000 last year. This country simply cannot cope with housing, health, welfare and infrastructural needs of the people already...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Mar 2024)

Sharon Keogan: ...organisation. This group includes senior NGO officials who have a clear agenda in the very referendums and elections that the commission is meant to regulate impartially. This group includes an officer of the Immigrant Council of Ireland, an officer of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission and Orla O’Connor of the National Women’s Council of Ireland. How can we...

Seanad: Social Welfare and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Second Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Sharon Keogan: ...to reside in the State under section 60(6) of the International Protection Act 2015, potentially offering supports and assistance to this specific group of individuals aligning with humanitarian and immigration consideration. This Bill includes provisions for the Short Title, construction and commencement, which can provide clarity and guidance on the application and interpretation of the...

Seanad: An Bille um an Daicheadú Leasú ar an mBunreacht (Cúram), 2023: An Dara Céim - Fortieth Amendment of the Constitution (Care) Bill 2023: Second Stage (22 Jan 2024)

Sharon Keogan: ...change, how many people would respond, "Gosh, we need to get it to alter this pesky Constitution, as it has been holding me back psychologically". How many would kill for the chance to vote on immigration, housing or the HSE? Of course, that would be giving up too much power to the people. They must only be allowed to nod or to shake their heads at whatever the Government serves them...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Dec 2023)

Sharon Keogan: ...instead spends its time solving peripheral minor issues, or non-issues, that make it look like it is actually doing something. In the midst of the housing crisis, the permanent health crisis and the immigration crisis, we are going to spend tens of millions of euro, at the taxpayers' expense, to ask the members of the public if they wish to rewrite portions of our Constitution to make...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Dec 2023)

Sharon Keogan: ...observed is healthcare. Irish doctors and nurses flee the country on qualifying because there are many greener pastures for our young healthcare professionals. Their vacant posts are then filled by immigrants who are also leaving a worse country or situation for a better one. The point is often made when we debate immigration that the HSE could not run without immigrants and it is...

Seanad: Local Government Matters and City and County Councillors: Motion [Private Members] (6 Dec 2023)

Sharon Keogan: ...be coming out next week. The Independent Group has secured some of this funding and we will be trying to get as many independent women as possible elected into local government. I took part in the Immigrant Council's mentoring scheme. It was very useful. It is important that we work with the migrant communities and ethnic communities in our country to bring them forward into politics...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Dec 2023)

Sharon Keogan: ...to Ireland from Bangladesh, via the UK, and be given own-door accommodation within 24 hours. It is stories like this that make people feel the Government is, as a matter of policy, prioritising immigrants over Irish people. If this is not the case, then the Government is doing a rotten job of dispelling that impression. The lack of answers from the Government is fuelling speculation and...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Dec 2023)

Sharon Keogan: -----that it must embrace the immigrants that have entered its community----

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

Sharon Keogan: ...is abhorrent. Violence is wrong. Crime should be punished. With that out of the way I will quickly run through a few points. The Taoiseach's statement yesterday that it is not right to connect immigration with crime is ridiculous. Not all immigrants are created equal and an immigration policy that does not recognise this will end in disaster and tragedy. We do not record crime...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Nov 2023)

Sharon Keogan: ...week was the pressure release valve bursting. This Government has done everything in its power to craft and maintain a social environment where the discussion of its own failings in the area of immigration is taboo. It has been a marvellous piece of propaganda but the jig is up now. The genie is out of the bottle and there is no putting it back.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Nov 2023)

Sharon Keogan: ...communities are expected to sustain. I am sick to death of the fact that every time I raise this issue, I am shouted down by the do-gooders in here whose parties last week have flip-flipped on the issue of immigration. We need a debate with Roderic O’Gorman on this serious issue because his Department is not talking to Darragh O’Brien’s Department and they are...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Nov 2023)

Sharon Keogan: I call for the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, to come to the House and answer the question of whether it is finally time to talk about immigration to this country. Is it finally time for all of us to talk openly and honestly about this, the most important issue in the country today? Is it time for everyone to come together and hash out some semblance of a workable plan, a logical way forward or...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Oct 2023)

Sharon Keogan: ...Storm Agnes and did not even have use of many of the portaloos that were on site. I just do not think this is the way to treat people. I am blue in the face calling for a practical approach to immigration based on recognition of our logistical limits but it seems my philosophy is simply at odds with this Government. Rather than provide an appropriate standard of care to a number of...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Human Trafficking (3 Oct 2023)

Sharon Keogan: ...and that we must be extra vigilant in this environment to ensure the vulnerabilities of people in flux will not be exploited for profit. That is what this Commencement matter is getting at. The business of immigration consulting has exploded in recent years and is only going to get bigger, yet there is no legal framework, basis or oversight for accreditation of immigration consultants. I...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Human Trafficking (3 Oct 2023)

Sharon Keogan: I thank the Minister of State. It was reported in the UK press last year that migrants across the UK are being preyed upon by immigration advisers and solicitors who are taking advantage of the lack of protections for advice seekers. These rogue practitioners are charging extortionate fees for free application forms and are putting in spurious applications and appeals that have no chance of...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Jun 2023)

Sharon Keogan: ...exactly how each and every Irish person lives his or her life. In private recognition of their inability or unwillingness to solve the real and pressing issues facing Ireland, namely, housing and immigration, both of which are issues of its own making, the Government instead busies itself by mircomanaging the day-to-day experiences of ordinary people, deciding what cars they are allowed...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Departmental Funding (29 Mar 2023)

Sharon Keogan: ...The Minister’s Department has an extraordinarily wide remit. Were there no other initiatives that would have benefitted from the funding? What about the disability sector under his remit? What about children in care, childcare or immigration integration? These funding decisions have led to accusations of the Minister engaging in ideological parochialism, prioritising pet...