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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)

Helen McEntee: ...asylum in another EU country. The system allows us to check whether someone has lodged an application for asylum. The new regulation will extend the system to collect more information for wider immigration purposes and enhance the sharing of information between EU countries on irregular arrivals. This will include collection of a facial image as well as fingerprints and we are...

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

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...guess, there are already bad actors in this space who are trying to give an interpretation of what this migration pact actually means. God help us, in an election year, if people try to play the immigration card and get a few cheap, racist votes for themselves when trying to tell lies about this migration pact. Are we going to separately legislate for each one? Does the Minister plan to...

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?

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

Michael McNamara: ...is not that much bigger. France transferred 3,311 people. Will the Minister explain the massive discrepancy between the ability of the German and French departments of justice to implement their immigration policy and our ability to implement ours? It is the same system. How come they are able to operate it and we are not?

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

Michael McNamara: I asked for this figure two months ago and the Minister said she would give it to me when she had it to hand. She still does not have it to hand. Does she have any handle on immigration? Does the Department have a handle on it? I do not mean the Minister personally. Does the Department have a handle on what is happening in immigration in Ireland?

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

Robert Troy: ...that is across the EU and that would help identify whether somebody who presents at a port or airport had already commenced an asylum process in another country, or what stage they were at in an immigration process in another country. Does the Minister think it would be wise to reconsider whether we should sign into that visa information system?

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

Mattie McGrath: ...are repetitive. I was addressing other issues in the Dáil. Opting into this pact greatly undermines Ireland's democratic sovereignty by giving exclusive power to the EU to decide on our immigration policies. The pact includes a mandatory solidarity mechanism, forcing countries to choose between accepting migrants or paying hefty sums into a common fund. A question I wish to pose...

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

Helen McEntee: ..., all which I always endeavour to respond to. For the last eight years, it has been open to Members of the Houses to put down questions or to seek to engage on this. We had recent debates on immigration and there were two significant debates in the Houses in which I outlined this. Obviously, it was open for Deputies to raise concerns there as well. In terms of whether this takes away...

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

Michael McNamara: ...prosecute this offence? Is not the real problem that Ireland is being criticised by the Council of Europe Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment for having no immigration detention facilities? It correctly states that it is wholly inappropriate for people who have committed immigration violations to be housed with general remand...

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

Helen McEntee: All I can state clearly is that decisions taken to prosecute are decisions taken by An Garda Síochána and the DPP. The Garda National Immigration Bureau, GNIB, is working collectively with the system to make sure that where people are potentially abusing the system or where there are laws that are abused that, at its discretion, it makes those decisions. It is the case that now...

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

Sharon Keogan: ...Ireland. People are coming in through Belfast and down into the Republic. What is happening to stop that flow? Nothing is happening. The Department of Justice is not working. The Department of immigration is not working. That is why we have the chaos we have on our streets today, with all those people out there in tents, and I do not believe it will get any better. I do not believe...