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International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2024)

James Lawless: I might need one to keep up with you, although that might be to your credit, given you are a busy man, as I know. I do not want to personalise this, but I do want to rebut very strongly any Member suggesting there was not adequate time, which is completely incorrect. On another point, this is not by any means the end of the debate on the pact. The next Dáil might feature a...

International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to talk about this migration pact. I am totally opposed to this pact, as are most people in the country. In the council elections a few weeks ago, the biggest issue was immigration. The people do not the trust the Ministers with this pact. It was disingenuous of the Minister, Deputy McEntee, to try to confuse the issue last night by saying we need migrant workers. Yes, we do,...

International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: We should never tire of reminding people that Independence transformed the fortunes of this country and the people who live here. It transformed the country from being a provincial backwater of the United Kingdom into being a modern European state. In looking for evidence of that transformation, we probably need look no further than at the impact of migration into and out of Ireland over...

International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2024)

Dessie Ellis: Generations of Irish people were forced to emigrate to places like the United States, Australia and England as a result of famine, poverty and conflict. Irish people for the most part have made a positive contribution to their adopted lands. Often newly arrived Irish people faced discrimination, racism and ostracisation. It is not that long ago that there were signs in England saying,...

International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2024)

Michael Collins: The decision to join the EU migration pact is a significant one for Ireland with far-reaching implications. This pact is essentially a set of rules and guidelines for managing migration within the European Union and could place a substantial economic and social burden on the country. It could strain public services and local amenities including housing and medical services, which are...

International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2024)

Peter Burke: I welcome the opportunity to contribute on this very important debate on the asylum and migration pact. From a country with a population of more than 5 million, I know how many people we have who claim Irish descent right across the world. There are approximately 70 million people around the globe. That is so much a part of our story and what it means to be Irish and the shared experiences...

International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2024)

Denis Naughten: The aim of the migration pact is to create a fair and efficient asylum system, ensuring that EU member states share responsibility equitably, while also streamlining the asylum process. This is a commendable goal. What is imperative in this debate is that we have an accurate handle on the scale of migration. As of 1 January 2022, there were 23.8 million non-EU citizens residing within the...

International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Sinn Féin and I believe Ireland can create a fair and efficient asylum system in a better way. We will vote against the migration and asylum pact. We oppose it for very good reasons. First, it undermines human rights. That has to be the basis of everything. That must be the basis of the message that goes out from this House. All people are equal. I will never support any...

International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: If the Minister, Deputy Foley, comes in - she is in a committee at the moment - I will share time with her. I welcome the opportunity to speak on this important motion. The EU migration pact forms a central part of our national response to the migration crisis. It is collective action working together to address a common challenge in a humanitarian way. That is part of the best...

International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2024)

Norma Foley: I appreciate the opportunity to express my support for the EU migration and asylum pact. Migration has been always with us and has been always a part of the fabric of our life here. We in Ireland have a particular affinity with the United States, for example, and so many of our people went to the United States when times were very difficult here in Ireland, so we in Ireland have an...

International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2024)

Bríd Smith: We will be opposing this proposal, although not for similar reasons to any mentioned in the House today. I reject the idea that this is all about our sovereignty. I want to start from the point of view of looking at why we have this pact in the first place. It has been said repeatedly by backbenchers on the Government side that we need a fair, firm, efficient and enforced process for...

International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2024)

Robert Troy: I thank the Minister of State for sharing time with me. It is fair to say that, as a consequence of war, famine, climate change and general unrest across the globe, migration is something that we will be dealing with as a country for a considerable time to come. Despite what people in the Opposition claim, if we want to deal with this issue comprehensively, we cannot do so alone. The...

International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2024)

Martin Browne: Ireland needs to be able to adapt its approach to match our particular circumstances and any further challenges that may arise in future. Shackling ourselves by agreeing to an all-or-nothing approach is not in our interests and we will be voting no on the Government’s proposal. Most people recognise that people genuinely fleeing injustice and seeking asylum should be given...

International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2024)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I am pleased to have the opportunity to speak on the European migration and asylum pact. I will answer some of the questions asked about what Europe is doing to prevent or ease conflict elsewhere and stem the flow of migration. It is important to look at the proportion of the European Peace Facility that is used to try to prevent conflict in Africa, reduce the incidence, duration, intensity...

International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2024)

Catherine Murphy: This debate is a facade. The Government will be able to point to it to claim there was a debate in advance of the Government opting in, which it has already decided to do. It will be in advance of the various legislation that will be required. When we talk about legislation, there are five Stages to Bills, the first of which is when a Bill is published and considered in advance of...

International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: We need a fair, efficient and enforced immigration system. To date, we have not had this. Our system over the past couple of years has been shambolic. We know that from people working in the system and genuine applicants. We can see what is happening on the ground. Things have been contradictory, with no coherence or consistency. We need a transparent and common sense system where the...

International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: A significant number of us have stated that we think it is crazy for Ireland to opt in fully to the EU migration pact. A significant number of these measures are not beneficial to us putting a migration system that suits Ireland. Sometimes it becomes trite. We all use similar terminology about fair, efficient and enforced but that is what people want to see. They want to see a fair and...

International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2024)

Heather Humphreys: I am pleased to give my support to Ireland opting into the EU migration and asylum pact. We can all agree on the immense value that people coming here to work, live or study bring to Ireland economically, socially and culturally. The importance of the international protection process for those fleeing persecution and Ireland's duty to provide shelter for those most vulnerable also need to...

International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2024)

Michael McGrath: I very much welcome the opportunity to make a contribution to this important debate and to speak in favour of the motion. This debate offers the House the opportunity to speak not only on the detail of the pact itself but on the issue of migration more widely. EU migration is a shared European challenge that requires shared European solutions. EU agreement on the pact demonstrates that...

International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2024)

Thomas Gould: The Government has worked day and night to put migration at the heart of politics and debate in recent months. It is a distraction from its failures of the housing crisis, the health crisis, the cost-of-living crisis and the crisis in disability services and supports. A person said to me recently that they feel the Government has made them racist because they are fighting for services...