Results 641-660 of 11,583 for speaker:Jim O'Callaghan
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: International Protection Accommodation Service: Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration (23 Sep 2025)
Jim O'Callaghan: All companies that we enter into contracts with must be registered with the Companies Registration Office.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: International Protection Accommodation Service: Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration (23 Sep 2025)
Jim O'Callaghan: A company can have a tax clearance certificate and may, in the past, have been involved in tax wrongdoing.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: International Protection Accommodation Service: Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration (23 Sep 2025)
Jim O'Callaghan: As I said, they have to have complied with public service contracts in the past. If there was a public service contract in the past that the company had not complied with, we would not enter into a contract with that company. Companies have separate corporate identities, Chairman.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: International Protection Accommodation Service: Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration (23 Sep 2025)
Jim O'Callaghan: It should be €30,000 for private accommodation.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: International Protection Accommodation Service: Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration (23 Sep 2025)
Jim O'Callaghan: I appreciate the concern that members have in respect of these issues and it is my job to provide them with information. In respect of deportations and repatriations, 1,461 have been effected this year. People who have been served with a deportation order cannot work here or get social welfare benefits. It is extremely difficult for them to operate here. The information I have, which is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: International Protection Accommodation Service: Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration (23 Sep 2025)
Jim O'Callaghan: It was 4,154 flights. It is a lot. I was doorstepped myself recently coming off a flight. It is a very effective mechanism. Deputy Guirke mentioned how State accommodation cost €12,000 and private accommodation cost €30,000. Of course we should be getting the level of State accommodation up, and I have got it up. Last year, there were 900 State-owned accommodation units....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: International Protection Accommodation Service: Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration (23 Sep 2025)
Jim O'Callaghan: The Deputy's last question was how do we get it down-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: International Protection Accommodation Service: Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration (23 Sep 2025)
Jim O'Callaghan: There are some people at present in prison who have not yet been deported. Regarding enforced deportations and people removed via charter flights, I think the number is probably around 200. Last year, there were 200 imprisoned and I think this year there are around 278 or 280, but the number is bigger than that in terms of people who are imprisoned.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: International Protection Accommodation Service: Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration (23 Sep 2025)
Jim O'Callaghan: While we do have prison overcrowding, the solution to prison overcrowding is not to say there are a certain group of people whom we will allow to break the law without there being-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: International Protection Accommodation Service: Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration (23 Sep 2025)
Jim O'Callaghan: No one is released from prison deliberately to accommodate somebody who is the subject of a deportation order.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: International Protection Accommodation Service: Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration (23 Sep 2025)
Jim O'Callaghan: No one has been released because there is a deportation person coming in and we need the space to release somebody. It does not operate like that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: International Protection Accommodation Service: Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration (23 Sep 2025)
Jim O'Callaghan: Did the Deputy say 197?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: International Protection Accommodation Service: Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration (23 Sep 2025)
Jim O'Callaghan: In terms of the number of children, there are 9,000 children. The vast majority of them are applying for international protection. Regarding the numbers who have deportation orders, I would say it is more than 200 now. Very few of them have been in the country for three or four years.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: International Protection Accommodation Service: Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration (23 Sep 2025)
Jim O'Callaghan: We will get it for the committee but it is very few.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: International Protection Accommodation Service: Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration (23 Sep 2025)
Jim O'Callaghan: It is very few. The days of people staying here for three, four or five years do not happen anymore.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: International Protection Accommodation Service: Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration (23 Sep 2025)
Jim O'Callaghan: Can I come in on that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: International Protection Accommodation Service: Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration (23 Sep 2025)
Jim O'Callaghan: I hear what the Deputy says. A lot has been done by the Department in terms of people fleeing the slaughter in Gaza. Medevac which I am working on with the Minister, Deputy Carroll MacNeill, has resulted in many people needing medical attention coming here. Student visas have been issued for people coming here from Gaza. There were sports clubs that came during August that got visas and...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: International Protection Accommodation Service: Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration (23 Sep 2025)
Jim O'Callaghan: I will answer them as quickly as I can. On airline fines, I will have to forward the Senator that information. I do not have it to hand. In terms of gardaí in trafficking units, there is a unit within An Garda Síochána that deals with human trafficking. I have been out to see them in their location. They do excellent work. There is also a very significant section within...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: International Protection Accommodation Service: Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration (23 Sep 2025)
Jim O'Callaghan: A total of 87.66% of IPO applicants are applying at the IPO office, so they are not applying at ports or-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: International Protection Accommodation Service: Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration (23 Sep 2025)
Jim O'Callaghan: The suspicion is that they are coming over the Border. They could apply at an airport or a port when they arrive in the first instance.