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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...

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

Imelda Munster: I will raise the current situation in Drogheda for the simple reason it highlights some of the Government's failures in dealing with immigration. The Minister is more than familiar with the problems the Government has caused there. The two main hotels in the town are being used to house refugees and international protection applicants. That is a loss of more than 60% of accommodation...

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

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I thank the Deputy. Deputy O'Reilly is sharing time with her party colleagues.

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

Louise O'Reilly: Sinn Féin believes in common sense and common decency. These are the two points that will guide my contribution. Sinn Féin wants what most Irish people want: a system that is fair, efficient and enforced. The measures in the EU pact are not in Ireland's interests and will not deliver a system that will work for Ireland. We can better create a fair, efficient and enforced...

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

Joe Flaherty: I will be the first from the Government benches to put my hand up to acknowledge we have been far too slow to respond to the immigration crisis. We entered Government in early 2020 with fewer than 3,000 arrivals per annum and a commitment to end direct provision as part of the programme for Government. Over the intervening four years, numbers have soared and we have peppered the country...

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

John Lahart: I will continue where Deputy Flaherty left off. My focus is on what my constituents would like to see on the issue of migration and the enforcement of rules, and what kind of system in Ireland would give them confidence. Our parliamentary party had detailed discussions on this a few months ago and came up with a lot of suggestions. They were humanitarian-based, reasonable and formed the...

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

Emer Higgins: I thank the Minister, Deputy McEntee, for enabling this really important debate. I know how hard she and her officials have worked on this issue and how many hours she spent speaking with stakeholders both at an EU level and here in Ireland. I know that this pact has Ireland's best interests in mind. That is because Ireland helped to negotiate it. We are all aware of the change and...

Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (19 Jun 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: With one minute remaining, Deputy McGuinness is next but I will have to ask him to propose the adjournment at 4.31 p.m.

Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (19 Jun 2024)

John McGuinness: I will start by welcoming the Bill, I suppose.

Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (19 Jun 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Yes. It is up to yourself.

Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (19 Jun 2024)

John McGuinness: Should I propose the adjournment now?

Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (19 Jun 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: No, it is not 4.31 p.m. now but I will tell you when it is.

Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (19 Jun 2024)

John McGuinness: I welcome the Bill. I have a few concerns to express, particularly about the childcare sector, both the private and community care, and the interaction with Tusla. I acknowledge there is a need for regulation and a need to continue to supervise how children are being looked after, to ensure they are getting the proper care and attention and that a response mechanism is in place to address...

Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (19 Jun 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: We will be returning to that important matter in due course.