Results 41-60 of 1,683 for speaker:Sharon Keogan
- 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: The system we are currently operating at this moment whereby we have access to all of the data that Ms Kenny outlined will be null and void if we do not opt into this pact. Is that correct? Is that what Ms Kenny is saying?
- 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: Does that also apply to Interpol?
- 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: On the detention centres that are proposed in the legislation, the Government, in a document it put out on 27 March, referred to providing reception and integration centres and accommodation centres that would be State-run and that would hold up to 13,000 people. It also stated that it had contingency accommodation, developed to national standards and run by commercial providers, for up to...
- 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: This is obviously to do with the pact because it is exactly the kind of thing the centres-----
- 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: These are different centres completely. The centres proposed in the pact will be additional detention centres.
- 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: The Euro pact basically states that detention should be a last resort. These detention centres, I assume, are within the 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: The Minister put out a document on 27 March on-----
- 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: Yes.
- 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: While I agree with an Cathaoirleach, there is one hand doing something and another hand doing something else.
- 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 all very relevant in the context of what is happening within this country at present.
- 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: The detention centres are within the 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 with the Department of children and integration. A similar proposal has been made about these detention centres. They are also actually called that. They are referred to as "Reception and Integration Centres and Accommodation Centres, at or above national standards". They are also referred to as being State owned and capable of holding up to 13,000 people.
- 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: This is from the new strategy that was put forward by the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, on 27 March.
- 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 all linked.
- 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 all linked.
- 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.