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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Apprenticeship Programmes (18 Jan 2024)

Mairead Farrell: I ask the Minister to provide details on those 3,000 places and exactly what they relate to. 12 o’clock In addition, have critical skills and immigration visas ever been looked at in terms of trades? I have looked at that and it did not seem to be clear. On the five-year period the Minister mentioned, I was talking specifically about 2022-23, when there was a doubling of people...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Social Insurance Fund 2022
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 13 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 14 - Ex gratia Payments of €1.4 million to Social Welfare Branch Managers
Chapter 15 - Raising Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 16 - Recovery of Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 17 - Actuarial Review of the Social Insurance Fund (18 Jan 2024)

James O'Connor: One of the most breathtaking statistics of 2022 was around immigration and payments for Ukrainians. I know it has been a difficult task for the Department but there is one irreconcilable statistic, which is that the EU average for the increase in migration from Ukraine from September 2022 to September 2023 was 7.2% while in Ireland, it was 72.1%. I think Elaine Loughlin of the Irish...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Applications (18 Jan 2024)

Helen McEntee: ...Deputy that the Citizenship Division of my Department intends to communicate regularly with all applicants on a quarterly basis into the future. Queries in relation to the status of individual immigration cases may be made directly to my Department by e-mail using the Oireachtas Mail facility at: INISOireachtasMail@justice.ie, which has been specifically established for this purpose....

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Aviation Industry (18 Jan 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Jim O'Callaghan: 243. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality whether airlines can be required to provide to the Garda national immigration bureau evidence of the travel documentation relied on by passengers when embarking an airline bound for Ireland. [2135/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Human Trafficking (18 Jan 2024)

Helen McEntee: Maintaining the integrity of the immigration system, involves robust controls to prevent illegal entry. People smuggling is the facilitated, irregular movement of people across borders for a financial or other benefit. While distinct from human trafficking, it is exploitative of vulnerable people and as we have seen, very often the way in which they are smuggled into countries places them...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Data (18 Jan 2024)

Helen McEntee: ...orders who are or may have been in IPAS accommodation, however, in the overwhelming majority of such cases the individuals are considered likely to have left the State. Section 5 of the Immigration Act 1999 provides that where an immigration officer or a member of the Garda Síochána, with reasonable cause, suspects that the person against whom a deportation order is in...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (18 Jan 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 246. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason the decision was taken not to pursue the eight migrants who entered the country in a container at Rosslare and fled. [2139/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (18 Jan 2024)

Helen McEntee: ...Deputy that the Citizenship Division of my Department intends to communicate regularly with all applicants on a quarterly basis into the future. Queries in relation to the status of individual immigration cases may be made directly to my Department by e-mail using the Oireachtas Mail facility at: INISOireachtasMail@justice.ie, which has been specifically established for this purpose....

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Data (18 Jan 2024)

Helen McEntee: I propose to take Questions Nos. 251 and 252 together. The Border Management Unit of my Department and the Garda National Immigration Bureau are working closely with airlines on a range of measures to ensure that passengers have the appropriate travel documentation when boarding. Immigration officials are available 24/7 to assist airlines with queries in relation to immigration matters. In...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Agreements (18 Jan 2024)

Helen McEntee: ...visa services worldwide, the central concern in deciding on visa applications is to strike an appropriate balance between protecting the country's vital national interests by maintaining an effective immigration regime while at the same time not placing unnecessary or unreasonable obstacles in the way of intending visitors. Any visa required national that wishes to enter the State, and...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (18 Jan 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 259. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 194 of 16 November 2023, for an update on the application for naturalisation in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2305/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (18 Jan 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Helen McEntee: ...Deputy that the Citizenship Division of my Department intends to communicate regularly with all applicants on a quarterly basis into the future. Queries in relation to the status of individual immigration cases may be made directly to my Department by e-mail using the Oireachtas Mail facility at: INISOireachtasMail@justice.ie, which has been specifically established for this purpose....

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Teaghlach), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (17 Jan 2024) See 3 other results from this debate

Roderic O'Gorman: Yes, absolutely. I could not have put it better myself. That quality exists in cohabitees' and child-parent relationships. Deputy McAuliffe raised the issue of the impact on immigration law. It is an important point to raise as I have seen it feature in the debate. The clear legal advice we received from the Attorney General is that there will be no legal impact on immigration law or,...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Jan 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Heather Humphreys: ...Members' time to bring forward their own propositions. Many things are considered at the Business Committee, as we know, and the Chief Whip has given a commitment to have a balanced debate on immigration in the new year, so that will be organised.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jan 2024) See 3 other results from this debate

Heather Humphreys: The Deputy cannot blame the Government for people carrying out violent actions. She should not conflate the two issues of housing and immigration. Ukrainians and international protection applicants are being moved mainly into hotels and large-scale types of accommodation. They are not taking homes from Irish people. If that is the line the Deputy is trying to peddle, she is going down a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Capital Supply Service and Purpose Report Bill 2023: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

Bernard Durkan: ...to conclusions on the basis of false information or false evidence. I might be igniting something here that should not be ignited, but one example relates to the objections to people who are immigrants or refugees in various locations throughout the country. That should not be happening at all. It is absolutely disgraceful. As for suggesting there is not a benefit, there is a benefit...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (17 Jan 2024)

Micheál Martin: ...uploaded to Keesing’s document checker database. This is a comprehensive database for identity documents and bank notes and is widely used by government agencies including military and police, immigration offices, customs, embassies and tax authorities. An Garda Síochána arranged for the document to be uploaded to the Edison Database (Electronic Documentation and...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (17 Jan 2024)

Michael McNamara: 996. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality how many prosecutions have been initiated in respect of alleged offences under section 11 of the Immigration Act 2004; the outcome of any such prosecutions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56309/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (17 Jan 2024)

Helen McEntee: ...be made publicly available once they have been finalised. With regard to any citizen seeking to accrue reckonable residence in the State, I can advise the Deputy that there are numerous legal immigration pathways to enter and to reside in Ireland. Details of these legal pathways can be found on my Department’s website: www.irishimmigration.ie. Finally, any person born...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (17 Jan 2024)

Helen McEntee: ...delay in finalising their application. Applicants can keep up-to-date with the processing dates for the visa Office in Dublin by checking the following page; which is updated weekly; www.irishimmigration.ie/visa-decisions/ The person referred to by the Deputy will be notified as soon as a decision has been reached by a visa officer. Queries in relation to the status of individual...