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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)
...criteria be provided. It is not clear to us from the Bill who will make the determination as to whether a person has reckonable residency. It is our understanding that the Garda National Immigration Bureau and the Immigration Service Delivery do not issue such documents. Rather, the officials of these bodies make a determination on reviewing a person's residency criteria and issue a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)
...Other legal and advocacy groups have greater expertise and experience than CLM on what those specific cases might look like. Those organisations include Crosscare, which was mentioned earlier, the Immigrant Council of Ireland and the Irish Refugee Council. Regarding the real-life implications of the general scheme, it would be helpful to hear from those communities and those...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)
...came back to Ireland with her spouse and five children. Her husband is non-EEA. They did not have any accommodation when they came back and her application was refused because of her husband’s immigration status. They were left without access to any form of social housing support. Crosscare did step in and is working with them on that. The local authority has since accepted the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)
Ms Mary Heavey: We are not experts in immigration law. There are organisations, such as the Irish Refugee Council and the Immigrant Council of Ireland, and individuals out there who have that expertise. Lawful residence, as far as I understand it, means that someone has a lawful entitlement to be in the State.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)
Mr. David Kelly: On the EU and EEA part, yes, it is three months. On the non-EEA, it is potentially five years but it may be less, depending. There are different categories of residence under immigration legislation.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)
Mr. David Kelly: Yes. I mean it is consistent with immigration legislation. I might bring in my colleague here, Deputy.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)
Ms Dorothy Kellegher: The intention for the non-EEA nationals, excluding those ones or people who have successfully gone through immigration or the refugees who have successful international protection status, and it is consistent as well with Circular 41/12 as it currently stands and that policy, is that a non-EEA national would have either five years of reckonable residency or a potential...