Results 301-320 of 1,815 for diaspora

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Diaspora Issues (10 Mar 2021)

Niall Collins: 422. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on matters raised in correspondence in relation to a building (details supplied) in New York; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12482/21]

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Governance in Irish Athletic Boxing Association: Discussion (3 Nov 2021)

Shane Cassells: That is the nub of the question. As regards the focus, was it the wrong decision to focus on the elite side rather than also on the wide diaspora of the membership?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Offshore Renewable Industry Forum and Ireland’s Offshore Wind Industry: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

Mr. Kieran Ivers: We have identified that there are considerable numbers of the Irish diaspora already working in the industry. In the first instance, organisations such as Green Rebel and others to follow will encourage them to move back. That is an area that we need to focus on.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Diaspora Issues (21 Mar 2023)

Alan Dillon: 121. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he intends providing additional funding and resources to the Emigrant Support Programme to help remove barriers facing returning Irish emigrants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12748/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Diaspora Issues (11 May 2023)

Holly Cairns: 198. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he is taking to ensure that voting rights for Irish emigrants are aligned with the criteria used in other European countries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22228/23]

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Future of Sports Broadcasting: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jul 2023)

Imelda Munster: It has been updated, but the CCPC initially gave clearance on the basis of it being for the diaspora.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Diaspora Issues (25 Jan 2024)

Alan Dillon: 25. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will outline how his Department is supporting returning Irish immigrants who wish to return to Ireland but face barriers in terms of housing, driving licences, opening bank accounts, educational and work opportunities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3205/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Diaspora Issues (30 Apr 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: 141. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of the 30 recommendations of a report (details supplied) provided to the Government on the plight and problems of returning Irish citizen immigrants to Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18868/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Diaspora Issues (8 May 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: 72. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 141 of 30 April 2024, if he will revisit the question and itemise the 30 recommendations in the report, with a correlated update on what work has been undertaken to address and progress the recommendations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20593/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Official Engagements (28 May 2024)

Patrick Costello: 90. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade for an update on international engagements carried out by the Minister for International Development and the Diaspora carried out since the start of 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23952/24]

Written Answers — Irish Emigrants: Irish Emigrants (15 Mar 2012)

Eamon Gilmore: ...the Irish Abroad Unit within the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in 2004.This Unit has responsibility for developing Government policy towards Irish communities abroad and the wider Irish Diaspora and management of the annual Emigrant Support Programme (ESP) grant round. Since 2004, over €93m has been provided, through the Emigrant Support Programme, to Irish organisations in...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadcasting Service Provision (2 Oct 2012)

Pat Rabbitte: My officials and I have met with RTÉ on several occasions over the course of the last 12 months and we have discussed a wide range of issues, including provision of RTÉ services to the wider Irish Diaspora. Section 110(4) and (5) of the Broadcasting Act 2009 require RTÉ to review and report on the provision of such services and I received RTÉ’s latest report in...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Development (22 Nov 2012) See 1 other result from this answer

Willie O'Dea: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the mechanisms that have been developed to promote and deliver early stage investment by the Irish diaspora in new indigenous and inward startups as promised in the Action Plan for Jobs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51857/12]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Initiatives (13 Feb 2013)

Peadar Tóibín: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the total value of fees paid under the diaspora, job finders, fee scheme as part of succeed in Ireland; and the number of applications made and the total number of new jobs now in place as a result of this scheme. [7744/13]

Order of Business (9 May 2013)

Mary Lou McDonald: In the last four years, 300,000 people have emigrated. Does the Government have any plans to bring forward a strategy for Irish emigrants and the diaspora now that so many of our young people are forced to live overseas? Perhaps, that is the youth employment initiative to which the Tánaiste alluded earlier.

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Enterprise Support Schemes (8 Dec 2015)

Tom Fleming: 193. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the ten projects selected for the €500,000 competitive start fund to encourage enterprise and the diaspora to set up here, when the successful applicants will start these enterprises and in what location; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43564/15]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Census of Population (17 Nov 2020)

Paul Murphy: ..., Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will consider bringing forward the date for publication of the 1926 census from 2026 to 2021 in view of the fact this would stimulate interest amongst the Irish diaspora and possibly increase international travel to Ireland in the coming years. [36567/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (21 Apr 2021)

Mairead Farrell: 341. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 480 of 17 October 2017, the progress that has been made to reduce the burden facing the diaspora when applying for a locally issued driver licence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18933/21]

Order of Business (18 May 2011)

Mary Lou McDonald: The Taoiseach made a pre-election promise on political reform to give voting rights to the diaspora for the presidential election. Will the Government consider fast tracking legislation to afford a right to Irish citizens living in Ireland, but outside the 26 Counties, to participate in the election of the first citizen?

Written Answers — Citizenship Applications: Citizenship Applications (23 Mar 2010)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...and Law Reform the routes to citizenship open to persons whose great grandparents were Irish born emigrants; if there are plans to amend citizenship eligibility rules in the context of Irish diaspora; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12374/10]