Results 41-60 of 225 for immigration speaker:Leo Varadkar

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Work Permits (15 Dec 2020)

Leo Varadkar: ...be made, subject to the application fulfilling all relevant criteria. A person who entered the State, initially on a valid employment permit but who has fallen out of the employment permit and immigration system through no fault of their own, may be eligible to apply for a Reactivation Employment Permit subject to certain qualifying criteria. Details on how to apply for an employment...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Public Services Card Provision (1 Jun 2017)

Leo Varadkar: ...on the documents which a person should provide are available on the Department’s website at . Ordinarily, the identity document required for a person, who is not an EU citizen, is in line with immigration requirements, i.e., a current valid passport. I understand that the person in question attended for a SAFE registration but to date has failed to submit the required...

Unemployment Rate: Motion (2 Apr 2008)

Leo Varadkar: ...eGovernment, assisting business to embrace new technology, raising education standards, increasing investment in information technology in schools; and to promote greater involvement of immigrants in the economy by granting 'knowledge visas' to highly-skilled workers from overseas and by relaxing the restrictions on 291 immigrants who want to set up a business." I wish to share time with...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (24 Feb 2021)

Leo Varadkar: ...of the service to allow for a fully online process involving electronic/scanned documents and all decisions/outcomes now issue via e-mail rather than by post. Agreement was reached with the Immigration Service Delivery in the Department of Justice and Equality on arrangements to introduce, on a temporary basis, a type of “e-employment permit” and a similar soft copy process...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (26 Sep 2023)

Leo Varadkar: ...affairs and public services oversees the implementation of programme for Government commitments in the areas of social policy and public services. The committee covers a range of topics, including immigration and integration, with a particular focus on equality and public service reform. Other topics covered by the committee include support, social protection, arts and culture, and...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Public Services Card (29 Jun 2016)

Leo Varadkar: ...on the documents which a person should provide are available on the Department’s website at . Ordinarily, the identity document required for a person who is not an EU citizen is in line with immigration requirements, i.e., a current, valid passport. Out of date documentary evidence is not generally accepted for registration with the exception of Irish and UK passports which may be...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (2 Oct 2019)

Leo Varadkar: ...to urge the UK to ensure it is respected and taken into account in any agreement on the UK’s withdrawal from the EU. This is a welcome and important statement from the US Administration. We did not discuss immigration issues in great detail on this occasion. The Vice President is already keenly aware of Ireland’s perspective on immigration issues, including our...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (26 Mar 2019)

Leo Varadkar: ...arrangements; the recently launched national childcare scheme; child protection and welfare issues, particularly those related to Tusla; social enterprise and the new social enterprise strategy; immigration and direct provision issues; the publication of the LGBTI+ national youth strategy; the action plan for online safety; the ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Jun 2019)

Leo Varadkar: ...society. The Cabinet committee has considered a range of social policy issues recently, including childcare and the early years strategy, child protection and welfare issues, social enterprise, immigration, the publication of the LGBTI+ national youth strategy, the action plan for online safety, ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and a range...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Jun 2017)

Leo Varadkar: ...the same time, I will also ensure that I promote the values of this country and the European values for which this Government stands. I will also continue the efforts of my predecessor to prioritise immigration reform in my engagements with the US Administration with a view to regularising the situation of the up to 50,000 undocumented Irish in the United States.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (4 Mar 2021)

Leo Varadkar: ...of the service to allow for a fully online process involving electronic/scanned documents and all decisions/outcomes now issue via e-mail rather than by post. Agreement was reached with the Immigration Service Delivery in the Department of Justice and Equality on arrangements to introduce, on a temporary basis, a type of “e-employment permit” and a similar soft copy process...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2019)

Leo Varadkar: ...implementing those standards but they are not fully implemented yet and we acknowledge that. The Department of Justice and Equality, the Refugee Integration Agency and the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service, INIS, would welcome complaints by any resident in direct provision at Mosney or any other centre and any complaint would certainly not affect a person's application, either...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (31 Mar 2021)

Leo Varadkar: ...of the service to allow for a fully online process involving electronic/scanned documents and all decisions/outcomes now issue via e-mail rather than by post. Agreement was reached with the Immigration Service Delivery in the Department of Justice and Equality on arrangements to introduce, on a temporary basis, a type of “e-employment permit” and a similar soft copy process...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Work Permits (10 Nov 2020)

Leo Varadkar: ...elements of the service to allow for a fully online process involving electronic/scanned documents and all decisions/outcomes now issue via e-mail rather than by post.  Agreement was reached with the Immigration Service Delivery in the Department of Justice and Equality on arrangements to introduce, on a temporary basis, a type of “e-employment permit” and a similar soft...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (17 Dec 2020)

Leo Varadkar: ...of the service to allow for a fully online process involving electronic/scanned documents and all decisions/outcomes now issue via e-mail rather than by post. Agreement was reached with the Immigration Service Delivery in the Department of Justice and Equality on arrangements to introduce, on a temporary basis, a type of “e-employment permit” and a similar soft copy process...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (7 Mar 2023)

Leo Varadkar: ...committee on social affairs and public services oversees implementation of programme for Government commitments in the areas of social policy and public services. The committee covers a range of topics, including immigration and integration, in the area of social policy, with a particular focus on equality of public service reform. Other topics covered by the committee include sport,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (2 Oct 2018)

Leo Varadkar: ...relative to that in other countries. It is higher than the figure in Britain, France, Germany and the Netherlands. We have done much better on integration than those countries, largely because immigration has been diverse, rather than migrants coming mainly from one country. They have come here from other parts of Europe and all over the world. In addition, they are very well...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (18 Feb 2021)

Leo Varadkar: ...of the service to allow for a fully online process involving electronic/scanned documents and all decisions/outcomes now issue via e-mail rather than by post. Agreement was reached with the Immigration Service Delivery in the Department of Justice and Equality on arrangements to introduce, on a temporary basis, a type of “e-employment permit” and a similar soft copy process...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Nov 2023)

Leo Varadkar: ...the UK left the European Union was so that it could control its borders but it is seeing record numbers of people arriving now on boats. Italy elected a Government that promised to crack down on immigration but in the past few weeks more people landed on Lampedusa than live on the island. It is not realistic to think it is possible to put a cap on the number of people who might arrive in...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Work Permits (12 Nov 2020)

Leo Varadkar: ...of the service to allow for a fully online process involving electronic/scanned documents and all decisions/outcomes now issue via e-mail rather than by post. Agreement was reached with the Immigration Service Delivery in the Department of Justice and Equality on arrangements to introduce, on a temporary basis, a type of “e-employment permit” and a similar soft copy process...