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

Michael McNamara: Can I ask a question?

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

Michael McNamara: My apologies.

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

Michael McNamara: The Minister pointed out that it is an offence for the vast majority of people to present at Dublin Airport or any frontier of the State without a passport. In 2023, 3,285 people did so and there were no prosecutions; the previous year there were 4,200 people and no prosecutions. I asked in a parliamentary question why that was the case and the Minister stated that prosecutions are entirely...

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

Michael McNamara: If the 4,000 people were to be prosecuted, we literally have nowhere to put them.

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

Michael McNamara: Did the Minister confer with the Commissioner about these prosecutions?

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

Michael McNamara: How is it decided? Some people are being made an example of, because there are not thousands of people being prosecuted. How is it decided which poor divils are to be made an example of-----

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

Michael McNamara: -----and which ones are just waved through?

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

Michael McNamara: I appreciate that.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Apr 2024)

Michael McNamara: Last week, we heard the chilling words of Aoife Johnston's mother, "we told her she would be looked after, but she wasn't. We told her she was in the best place". That has destroyed what little confidence there was in the mid-west in the accident and emergency unit. We are good at addressing the injustices of 40 or 50 years ago in this House. That is absolutely necessary and I commend the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Apr 2024)

Michael McNamara: I listened carefully to what the Taoiseach said earlier. He told Deputy McDonald about the importance of this State being able to frame its own migration policy. He told Deputy Bacik about how important the open border with Northern Ireland remains. That is exactly what the Irish people voted for in the Lisbon treaty when we had an opt-out on the asylum area. Some aspects of the migration...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Aid Board: Chairperson Designate (30 Apr 2024)

Michael McNamara: First, I congratulate Ms Egan on her designation as chair of the Legal Aid Board. The Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, at Article 47, states, “Everyone whose rights and freedoms guaranteed by the law of the Union are violated has the right to an effective remedy”. It also provides that legal aid shall be provided to those who need it. Obviously, the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Aid Board: Chairperson Designate (30 Apr 2024)

Michael McNamara: Obviously, it becomes particularly problematic to represent yourself where the only remedy available is judicial review. If it is a plenary matter, perhaps a person might have a chance. Where it is judicial review, however, it is very difficult to see how somebody can represent themselves successfully. Does Ms Egan agree with the assessment of Ms Justice Deirdre Murphy, a retired judge of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Aid Board: Chairperson Designate (30 Apr 2024)

Michael McNamara: My apologies for the duplication. I congratulate Ms Egan.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 May 2024)

Michael McNamara: In March, the High Court struck down returns to the UK. The judgment states that in October 2021: the UK authorities advised that the Applicant had been convicted on an offence [...] in the UK and was in consequence registered as a sex offender. It appears that this information had been redacted by reason of data protection concerns before being placed on [his] immigration file. It...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 May 2024)

Michael McNamara: Do you have confidence in the Department?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 May 2024)

Michael McNamara: Do you have confidence in the Department?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 May 2024)

Michael McNamara: This is Harry Whelehan territory.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (2 May 2024)

Michael McNamara: 211. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of applicants for international protection that have made an application for international Protection and have not yet been issued with a decision. [20013/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (2 May 2024)

Michael McNamara: 212. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of applicants for international protection that have lodged an appeal against their decision from the IPO and have not yet been issued with a decision. [20014/24]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 May 2024)

Michael McNamara: I thank the Ceann Comhairle. I wish to bring to the attention of the Taoiseach a worrying trend that has come to my attention and give one example of it. It concerns a young man from the Indian subcontinent who travelled to the United Kingdom on a valid student visa issued by the UK Government. That visa allows him to work for ten hours a week only. He obviously hoped to work much more....