Results 1-20 of 21 for immigration segment:8831151
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Brian Stanley: ...from the Department of Justice: Ms Oonagh McPhillips, Secretary General; Mr. Doncha O'Sullivan, deputy Secretary General; Mr. John O'Callaghan, deputy Secretary General; Mr. Richard Dixon, director of immigration services and chief international protection officer; Ms Caron McCaffrey, director general of the Irish Prison Service; Mr. Derek Caldbeck, director of finance and estates at the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) ...which was completed last year. Current expenditure is under two distinct programmes of work across 46 subheads in the Vote. Programme A is criminal justice and programme B is civil justice, which includes immigration. In the year leading to April 2022, the CSO recorded that almost 90,000 people moved to Ireland. Some 22,000 were returning Irish citizens, 25,000 were arrivals from UK...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Alan Dillon: ...2022. Some 158 of these decisions were made, with an approval rate of 86%. Will the witnesses give us an understanding of the demand on applications within their Department relating to visas, immigration permissions and citizen applications?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Mr. Doncha O'Sullivan: Staffing has increased across the immigration service but we have many competing demands across all fronts, whether international protection, visas, as the Deputy says, and citizenship. We balance the allocation of staffing against multiple demands. There is a huge increase in staffing. As the Secretary General said, there is a significant investment in technology...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) ...with an assisted returns programme, which is a voluntary return programme. If the person chooses not to opt for that, a deportation order will issue. That is then provided to the Garda National Immigration Bureau, which will take steps to seek to enforce that order. We work very closely with the Garda National Immigration Bureau and International Protection Accommodation Services, IPAS,...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) ...whether or not somebody has left the country, it is difficult to do so and it is not really possible to say so definitively in the absence of exit controls in the jurisdiction. However, the Garda National Immigration Bureau has in the past reviewed large numbers of cases, looked at them closely and carried out inquiries. Its conclusion is that a very significant number of the people in...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Paul McAuliffe: There are a number of small issues I want to deal with. I will continue Deputy Dillon's line of questioning regarding immigration. For reasons to do with our history, we probably have never seen the significant numbers we have seen in the past number of years and we have probably never had the full public debate on the issue of immigration that we see in many other countries. Sometimes...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Ms Oonagh McPhillips: There were 16.6 million arrivals coming through immigration in Dublin Airport. We are just talking about the airport. Of those, 5,800 were refused leave to land and of those 3,285 did not have papers while 872 had false documents.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Ms Oonagh McPhillips: It is done by the Garda National Immigration Bureau in consultation with our own staff.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Ms Oonagh McPhillips: By the Garda National Immigration Bureau. That happens in some cases. In other cases, there might not be an available flight for a day or so. Those people might be held in the Garda station at the airport, others might have their passports held and be asked to come back and others seek asylum. Quite a substantial number seek international protection at that point.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Ms Oonagh McPhillips: We work very closely with the airlines. The Garda National Immigration Bureau has done the training with airlines and so forth. I will ask Mr O’Sullivan to expand on that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Mr. Doncha O'Sullivan: The Garda National Immigration Bureau and ourselves do great work with the airlines. We founded and fund the training programmes for staff, and we have done direct training with their ground staff. We find that we get a great deal of assistance from them. They have no interest in allowing people who are not legitimate to board. We also have the option of carrier...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) ...be careful around vetting, which has a particular meaning. We work in a legal environment. Vetting has a different meaning. There are checks against European databases both on their movement as immigrants and, if they are wanted in any EU state, that will come up as a hit on the SIS check.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Mr. Doncha O'Sullivan: Yes. Registration outside Dublin is managed by the Garda National Immigration Bureau. There is a longer-term project recommended by the Commission on the Future of Policing in Ireland that we take on that work around the country. We are working on a roadmap to do that and roll that out. There is quite a lot involved in taking that on in terms of technology, staff,...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Ms Oonagh McPhillips: If the person is still here, the deportation order is issued and that goes to the Garda National Immigration Bureau to execute. If the applicant has chosen not to exit-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Ms Oonagh McPhillips: I will get it now for Deputy Burke. There were 692 cases, across the entire immigration area, and not just relating to international protection at the end of January 2024.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Alan Dillon: ...job. I am sure the demands have increased tenfold in the last number of years. It is great to have them here. I will look for clarification on some matters. I firstly want to focus on the immigrant investor programme, IIP, which ceased to accept new applications back in February 2023. Despite the closure, applications which were already submitted continued to be evaluated. Can I...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Catherine Murphy: ...in the international protection area. It is self-evident that there is an increase in the processing times. There is going to be an investment in a major modernisation programme across the entire immigration function. Is that going to be exclusively for the Department of Justice or is it going to integrate with the Department of Social Protection? What will that process look like, what...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Mr. Richard Dixon: A significant investment is being made in modernisation within the international protection operation and more broadly in immigration services. There are a number of key elements, one of which is having a single view of our customer. At the moment somebody who applies for-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Mr. Richard Dixon: Across the immigration services, the modernisation programme has been running for the past year and a half. We will see the first elements of technology and change being introduced this year and the entirety of the programme being delivered over the next three to four years.