Results 561-580 of 11,984 for speaker:Helen McEntee
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)
Helen McEntee: As the UK is not in the EU, it would not be part of this migration pact so we have a separate agreement with it. We have a returns agreement with the UK. There have been issues in recent weeks because of a High Court ruling. To my earlier point I will bring forward legislation to address that in a matter of weeks because it has to be the case that we can return people to the UK. We have an...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)
Helen McEntee: No. Once we opt in, we are opting in to the measure. We would be speaking about something much more significant for us to pull out of measures or potentially to pull out of the EU. We are opting in. We have passed legislation which means we are legally bound. If changes are to take place, we would negotiate and work through those changes with our colleagues. With regard to the UK, it is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)
Helen McEntee: If we opt in, we are opting in to these measures. It is the case at European level that any measures or laws that are passed are continuously reviewed. A new asylum agency has been established, which we opted in to last year. One of the benefits of the agency is that we are pooling together our resources to look at migratory flows, the challenges and issues that arise, what works and what...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)
Helen McEntee: That shows the inefficiency of the Dublin III system-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)
Helen McEntee: We can only issue a take-back request. It is then for those countries-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)
Helen McEntee: Again, it is my understanding that it was not within the timeframe. I have not seen the details of the cases but if it is not within that timeframe, even if-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)
Helen McEntee: If the other country frustrates-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)
Helen McEntee: If Deputy McNamara can show me they were accepted within the six-month timeframe-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)
Helen McEntee: If Deputy McNamara can show that to me-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)
Helen McEntee: I cannot-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)
Helen McEntee: I cannot speak for other countries and I do not know the overall figures they received. As a much larger country with a much greater influx of people seeking-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)
Helen McEntee: -----protection, there is obviously a much greater number of people that Germany may be able to return. One of the biggest challenges we have faced is getting acceptance within the six-month period.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)
Helen McEntee: We did have a situation last year whereby Greece and Italy stopped accepting some of the returns.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)
Helen McEntee: They did not take them after accepting them.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)
Helen McEntee: The Department has done outstanding work in recent years.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)
Helen McEntee: I can do so.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)
Helen McEntee: As I outlined in response to an earlier question, while we cannot opt in to the return border procedure because we are not part of Schengen, the intention is that we will still apply the 12-week rule in terms of the returns procedure. It would be for us to develop the legislation.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)
Helen McEntee: I propose that we vote on them collectively-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)
Helen McEntee: -----because they have been negotiated together and they are all very much interconnected.