Results 201-220 of 6,944 for speaker:Michael McNamara
- 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.
- Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (23 Apr 2024)
Michael McNamara: I just wanted to make a very brief point. I greatly welcome the apology that is going to take place today. It is grossly overdue.
- Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (23 Apr 2024)
Michael McNamara: No, it is on the Order of Business. We also need to deal----
- Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (23 Apr 2024)
Michael McNamara: ----with apologies for what is happening now, in particular what is happening at University Hospital Limerick.
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Foreshore Issues (23 Apr 2024)
Michael McNamara: 493. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a decision will issue on an application for a foreshore licence (details supplied); if it is lawful to carry out acquaculture activities at the site in the meantime; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17894/24]
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Apr 2024)
Michael McNamara: The concentration of land ownership in many parts of the country is a problem. It is particularly noticeable in south Tipperary and, indeed, the OPW's activities in north Clare are creating their own pressures. Obviously, the Tánaiste will be aware of the Irish Land Commission. It was abolished in the last century but he was a Deputy at the time. Nobody is proposing that it be...
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Expenditure (17 Apr 2024)
Michael McNamara: 120. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the amount expended by his Department in 2022 on the accommodation of pets and other animals. [16928/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Expenditure (17 Apr 2024)
Michael McNamara: 121. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to outline the lawful basis for any expenditure by his Department on the accommodation of animals in 2022. [16929/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Expenditure (17 Apr 2024)
Michael McNamara: 122. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide a breakdown of the sums paid to each provider of accommodation to beneficiaries of temporary protection in respect of the accommodation of animals in 2022. [16930/24]
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2024)
Michael McNamara: Well, I have heard others raising two.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2024)
Michael McNamara: The migration pact is not one Bill, but it is several. I believe it would be beneficial to this State to opt into some of them, but some of them would be very detrimental. My concern is that this will come back from the justice committee with a motion that we apply and endorse either all measures or none of them. That would be profoundly undemocratic, and I believe it would be detrimental...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2024)
Michael McNamara: Separate votes