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Services for those Seeking Protection in Ireland: Statements (30 Jan 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...do so at the International Protection Office. Each person that enters the international protection process is fingerprinted and photographed. These fingerprints are checked against Eurodac, an EU immigration database which stores the fingerprints of asylum applicants and those who have crossed borders illegally. Character and conduct checks are also carried out with An Garda...

Services for those Seeking Protection in Ireland: Statements (30 Jan 2024)

James Browne: I am pleased to have the opportunity to speak on immigration. While I recognise it can often cause concerns, particularly around housing and services, it is important we understand the overwhelming benefits inward migration brings. With an ageing population and an economy at almost full employment, we need overseas workers to fill labour shortages and continue to drive our economy. Some...

Services for those Seeking Protection in Ireland: Statements (30 Jan 2024)

Thomas Pringle: ...history and identity, and to ignore this aspect of ourselves is to ignore what it means to be Irish. Emigration defined Irish identity 200 years ago and has continued to define us ever since. Immigrants to our country are just looking for the opportunity for a better quality of life. We have never been denied this anywhere we went, so why should we deny anyone else this opportunity?...

Services for those Seeking Protection in Ireland: Statements (30 Jan 2024)

Carol Nolan: ...the greatest detail. I condemn that and call it out because people see it for what it was and it certainly backfired. I want to also raise my serious concerns over the very unsustainable level of immigration in this country. I was dumbfounded by the gullible, naïve and reckless statements we heard from some of the hard-left TDs. They seem to think that there are no limits on...

Services for those Seeking Protection in Ireland: Statements (30 Jan 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: This is a very important debate about co-ordination of services. I am concerned over how the Minister, Deputy Coveney, and Fianna Fáil Deputies are trying to confuse the debate by talking about immigrants who come here working. I have respect for all those people who come here working - as much as the Minister, Deputy Coveney, or anybody else. I have employed people from every part of...

Services for those Seeking Protection in Ireland: Statements (30 Jan 2024)

Chris Andrews: Immigration is causing a breakdown in social cohesion in Irish society and it is happening on the Minister's watch. In the view of the public, and in the experience of service providers in local communities, there is simply no co-ordination of services and no proper communication, as has been highlighted again and again. The Government is treating communities like fools and they have lost...

Services for those Seeking Protection in Ireland: Statements (30 Jan 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...to the debate. I agree with the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment that Ireland has done an extraordinary job. The people have done an extraordinary job over recent months and years. Immigration can mean different things. It can mean people from Great Britain living and working here under the common travel area arrangements or people living and working here through EU...

Services for those Seeking Protection in Ireland: Statements (30 Jan 2024)

Helen McEntee: Without question, immigration is a topic that is at the forefront of many of our minds at this time. We are reading about it in the newspapers, seeing posts online and speaking about it with our family and friends. I am pleased to have this opportunity to speak about it in the House. I want to leave Members in no doubt as to my view of immigration, which is that it has been good for this...

Services for those Seeking Protection in Ireland: Statements (30 Jan 2024)

Holly Cairns: There are challenges within our immigration and asylum system but they are challenges of the Government's own making. They are not the fault of people seeking asylum or of migrants seeking to build a life for themselves and their families here in Ireland. We simply would not function as a country without migration. We would not staff our public services or our private enterprises. We...

Services for those Seeking Protection in Ireland: Statements (30 Jan 2024)

Duncan Smith: I welcome the opportunity to make a statement on the issue of service provision for international protection applicants and recipients, and, indeed, on the topic of immigration, and, more broadly, our international protection system. Certain Deputies have recently given the impression that they believe that this topic is off limits, that having the debate is somehow being stifled by some...

Services for those Seeking Protection in Ireland: Statements (30 Jan 2024)

Matt Carthy: ...and no consideration as to the capacity issues that were evident at that time. Those temporary measures expire next year and the Government must plan, and in a way it did not previously, and signal that our immigration laws and an overhaul of the international protection system will apply across the board. The Government still has not sorted out the international protection process....

Services for those Seeking Protection in Ireland: Statements (30 Jan 2024)

John Brady: Before I begin, I want to draw attention to the absence of the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, who has the responsibility for the Government's response to the co-ordination of immigration. His absence from the debate this afternoon sums up the Government's approach and handling of this entire situation. This debate is-----

Services for those Seeking Protection in Ireland: Statements (30 Jan 2024)

John Brady: ...to signal now to those Ukrainians in Ireland and to the EU that when the temporary protection directive expires in March of next year at the latest, Ukrainians will be subject to the State's immigration laws. Ukrainians who wish to remain in Ireland past that expiration date should be allowed to start applying now for critical skills permits, for example. If their home part of Ukraine...