Results 1-4 of 4 for operation sophia speaker:Lynn Ruane

Seanad: EU Migration: Motion [Private Members] (27 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: ...; - over the past decade the European Union has enacted policies which seek to prevent asylum seekers from reaching Europe’s borders and claiming asylum in Member States; - the European Union has operationalised a number of migration control policies, such as the Malta Declaration, which fund non-EU states, such as Libya, to intercept people attempting to cross the Mediterranean...

Seanad: EU Migration: Motion [Private Members] (27 Jun 2023)

Lynn Ruane: ...rescue, SAR, missions in the central Mediterranean Sea through bilateral treaties. In 2015, our Naval Service rescued 8,592 people from the Mediterranean Sea. In 2017, we were to enter the EU's Operation Sophia, but the then Minister of State at the Department of Defence, Deputy Paul Kehoe told the Dáil that: Transferring to Operation Sophia will result in the redeployment of...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Smuggling of Persons) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (20 Oct 2021)

Lynn Ruane: ...humanitarians and aid workers who help to save those lives that we keep reading about and seeing the reported figures on. Previously, this work was carried out by the European defence forces under Operation Sophia, with the assistance of some of our own ships given to those stranded at sea. Now that work is being left to NGOs such as Médecins Sans Frontières, MSF, which we need...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Smuggling of Persons) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (7 Oct 2021)

Lynn Ruane: ...conflict areas in 2016, military ships, including the Defence Forces' LÉ Róisínand LÉ Eithne, were assisting boats that smugglers had left stranded in the middle of the sea. In 2019, however, the EU mission named Operation Sophia, which called on those ships, was wound up. At the time, this drew criticism from organisations such as Amnesty International and the Irish...