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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)

Sharon Keogan: Regarding the extra gardaí appointed today under Operation Sonnet-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)

Sharon Keogan: No, that is okay. One hundred extra gardaí were allocated to Operation Sonnet today. That operation had some success late last year and again this year when it returned to the UK people who had come through Northern Ireland. They were returned via ferry from Dublin Port. Twenty-five people were caught between 9 and 13 October. This February, 25 people were removed from the State as...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)

Sharon Keogan: Some of the witnesses are in favour of it and some are not. I would like to know who among our guests is in favour of Ireland opting in and who is in favour of Ireland opting out. It is a simple question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)

Sharon Keogan: Maybe we can ask the question of each witness. Would people be in favour of opting in or opting out of the EU migration pact?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)

Sharon Keogan: It is the country’s problem.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)

Sharon Keogan: What is happening now? Is the Chair saying that, following this meeting, the committee will make a decision that will be referred to the Dáil?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)

Sharon Keogan: It will just be members.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)

Sharon Keogan: And that will happen today at 7 p.m.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)

Sharon Keogan: I am well aware of that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)

Sharon Keogan: That is fine.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)

Sharon Keogan: I will be sent to Rwanda.

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: The Future of Local Democracy: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Apr 2024)

Sharon Keogan: I thank the Cathaoirleach for the words about my uncle Jim. He lived a life of service, just a we as politicians do. He was a Kiltegan missionary and part of the famous Gunnar Brady family, who would have been very well known in the football circles but also in the political circles through Fianna Fáil. Uncle Danny served as a county councillor for Fianna Fáil for almost six...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó (Atógáil) - Order of Business (Resumed) (24 Apr 2024)

Sharon Keogan: A few weeks ago, I hosted an information afternoon in Leinster House on the World Health Organization, WHO, pandemic treaty. Attendees included an international panel of speakers comprising doctors, lawyers and politicians, some of whom have given evidence before the US Congress and Senate regarding the WHO's rule in the last pandemic. This treaty will have a significant impact on future...

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

Sharon Keogan: The Minister referred to a 50% GDP and 50% population calculation. Will she clarify this is the calculation in Article 44k of the asylum and migration management regulation, which states that "The share of solidarity contributions to be provided by each Member State referred to in Article 44b(2) shall be calculated in accordance with the formula set out" in annexe 3? In 2022, 5.1 million...

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

Sharon Keogan: What are the numbers? Does the Minister know how many people we would have been required to take in 2022 if this were the law?

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

Sharon Keogan: They are migration numbers, yes.

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

Sharon Keogan: Can she base her figure on that? Wars happen all of the time. Crises will happen all of the time. Based on something that might happen in the future and the fact that 5.1 million migrants came to the EU from outside in 2022, has somebody in the Department run calculations of what our figure would be based on that?

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

Sharon Keogan: I have run the figure, and it is just over 100,000. How could we possibly handle a minimum of 100,000 migrants at any point in the coming years?

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

Sharon Keogan: At the end of the day, it could happen-----

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

Sharon Keogan: It could happen.