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

Barry Ward: I have heard what the Minister said about it not being in our interest to go it alone and I very much agree. Some commentators on this say it will cede our sovereignty with regard to immigration and asylum issues. How does the Minister address that argument? Will she confirm that it is not the case? If it is the case, will she explain to what extent and how it is the case?

Seanad: Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Second Stage (11 Jul 2022)

Barry Ward: ...well on Ireland. Ukrainian Members of Parliament, including the four who visited this House not very long ago, are astonished at the flexibility of our Government in dealing, for example, with the immigration issue. From a justice perspective, the ability of a government to react to that crisis and to remove immigration restrictions on Ukrainian citizens coming to Ireland was not just a...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: State Examinations (11 Nov 2021)

Barry Ward: ..., coarse and curriculum in either the simplified characters or the traditional ones used in certain areas. I recognise the Minister said on 8 July this was designed for ab initio learners, rather than immigrant or migrant communities. However, many thousands or even tens of thousands of people in this country come from Hong Kong, Taiwan or a community where the traditional characters are...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: State Examinations (11 Nov 2021)

Barry Ward: ...or traditional characters. My concern is that, even with new learners, we are cutting them off from a whole corpus of literature from places like Taiwan and Hong Kong, and many members of the immigrant community here come from those countries. The real danger is that we are exposing ourselves to an accusation that we are selling out this curriculum to a foreign power - that being Beijing...

Seanad: Deportation Moratorium (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Second Stage (9 Dec 2020)

Barry Ward: ...no longer trust the Minister to have discretion in these matters. One of my councillor colleagues, Baby Pereppadan, has brought to my attention a number of cases of people who are waiting for the Garda National Immigration Bureau to renew stamps and things like that. Many foreign nationals have been greatly delayed in progressing these applications. I have already brought many of these...

Seanad: Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2020)

Barry Ward: ...the amendments because she identifies some important issues. Section 121 of the Bill inserts into the Act of 2015 three new sections, 51A, 51B and 51C. Section 51B refers to the power of an immigration officer or member of An Garda Síochána to arrest a person and bring a person to a place of detention. On the face of it, that sounds like a draconian power. I acknowledge what...

Seanad: Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2020)

Barry Ward: ..., we should err on the side of caution. While I am sympathetic to that view, that is not what the amendment states. Amendment No. 17 refers to the situation where the relevant officer, being an immigration officer or member of An Garda Síochána, does not have documentation to prove the person's age. I suggest that there is a large gap between knowing and being able to prove a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2020: Engagement with the Minister for Justice (6 Oct 2020)

Barry Ward: ...has experience and competence in that area. The other small issue I wanted to raise was in relation to the use of the term "non-national", which is varied in the Statute Book in so far as the immigration legislation tends to refer to non-nationals and even aliens going back to 1935. In the 1950s, or certainly by the end of the 1990s, we were changing the word "alien" and using the word...