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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (7 Mar 2024)

Helen McEntee: ...Admission Programme which was designed as a specific response to the situation in Afghanistan closed for applications on the 11th of March 2022. However, it is important to say that all current immigration avenues remain open for new applications, including visa, employment and family reunification applications. Afghan nationals are visa required and must have a valid Irish entry visa...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (7 Mar 2024)

Helen McEntee: The person referred to by the Deputy has no valid immigration permission to remain in the State. Where a person remains resident in the State without an immigration permission, I encourage them to contact the Immigration Service Delivery (ISD) or their local immigration office and to take all appropriate steps to regularise their status. Any application submitted should explain their...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 Mar 2024)

Leo Varadkar: ...initially 60 rising to 62 because a change has to be made in legislation. Some of the others can be done by ministerial order. Deputy Barry raised the very real and ongoing issues around the abuse of immigration law and employment law in the fishing industry. I do not know enough about the particular case to comment on it. It is the first I have heard about that case. Deputy...

Seanad: EU Talent Pool: Motion (5 Mar 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

James Browne: ...our labour markets. For example, the talent pool could potentially enable a skilled nurse from India to be matched with essential services in hospitals throughout Ireland. Along with other EU member states, Ireland faces demographic pressures with declining birth rates, aging populations and an ongoing decline in the working age population. Facilitating the recruitment of skilled...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (5 Mar 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: Further to Parliamentary Question No. 341 of 20 February 2024, to qualify for a Local Authority Home Loan an applicant must currently have a legal right to reside and work in the State. As previously advised the Credit Policy requires that applicants from outside the EEA/EU must be legally resident in Ireland for a period of 5 years or have leave to remain extending to permit 5 years...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Work Permits (5 Mar 2024)

Helen McEntee: ...for Enterprise, Trade and Employment. All fishers holding a valid permission under the Scheme on 1 January 2023, or with an outstanding application in process at that time, were granted Stamp 4 immigration permission on an exceptional basis. This was arranged to provide certainty and security to employers and employees in the Sector at the time. If a person is resident in the State...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (5 Mar 2024)

Helen McEntee: ...of migrants through many legal pathways. It is the case that citizens of the Palestinian National Authority are visa required and must have a valid Irish entry visa before they seek to enter the State. Details of these legal pathways and guidance on making a successful application for each category can be found on the Immigration Service website at the following link: ...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (5 Mar 2024)

Helen McEntee: I can advise the Deputy that there are two routes in which a non-EEA national can apply for permission to remain in the State on the basis of marriage to an Irish national. Where a person is a non-visa required national, who has entered the State legally within the last 90 days, or where they are a visa required national and within the period of permission granted to them on arrival in the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Applications (5 Mar 2024)

Helen McEntee: The Deputy will appreciate that the establishment of a person’s identity and nationality is an important feature of our immigration processes. The Border Management Unit (BMU) and the Garda National Immigration Bureau (GNIB) are working closely with airlines on a range of measures to ensure that passengers have the appropriate travel documentation when boarding. Immigration officials...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Arson Attacks: Discussion (5 Mar 2024) See 3 other results from this debate

...s actions, there were 51 deaths and 40 injuries. I recommend that every member of the committee reads the report. I will read from the report, because of an important context to this later on. It states: We are satisfied that by January 2017 the individual had a terrorist attack in mind. We are also satisfied that when the individual came to live in New Zealand on 17 August 2017, it...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Feb 2024)

Micheál Martin: ...inalienable and imprescriptible rights". Article 41.1.2° goes on to observe that the family is "the necessary basis of social order and...indispensable to the welfare of the Nation and the State". That text remains unchanged under the proposed amendment, which ensures the constitutional protection and recognition that will be afforded to the family will not be extended to casual or...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (29 Feb 2024)

Helen McEntee: ...are processed and assessed individually in accordance with the provisions of the Act. There is no automatic right to Irish citizenship for the children of Non-EEA national parents resident in the State. Minors cannot apply for naturalisation in their own right, any application must be made by their parent, legal guardian or person acting on the child's behalf "in loco parentis". From...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Work Permits (29 Feb 2024)

Helen McEntee: The person referred to by the Deputy has no valid immigration permission to remain in the State. Where a person remains resident in the State without an immigration permission, I encourage them to contact the Immigration Service Delivery (ISD) or their local immigration office and to take all appropriate steps to regularise their status. Any application submitted should explain their...

EU Talent Pool: Motion (28 Feb 2024) See 2 other results from this debate

Neale Richmond: ...Ultimately, the Deputy and I, and I would actually argue everyone in this Chamber, knows well what it was like to grow up in an Ireland where nobody wanted to come to live. We did not have large-scale immigration. People did not want to come here because we did not have the economy, the society or the infrastructure to attract them. This situation has now changed and changed for the...

RTÉ: Statements (28 Feb 2024)

Carol Nolan: ..., they are absolutely disgusted by the arrogance they see and by RTÉ's arrogance. For some bizarre reason RTÉ feels it has a right to our trust; it does not. Its coverage of everything, from climate to immigration to the impact of Government policies on rural Ireland, has been absolutely woeful and unbalanced. Independent media has stepped up to the mark and has shown more...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: An Inclusive Education for an Inclusive Society: Discussion (28 Feb 2024)

Dessie Ellis: ...for their presentation. It is estimated that 23% to 25% of people have disabilities, generally. I assume that filters down into those of school-going age in a similar fashion. Mr. Kearney stated that there are 3,000 special classes for more than 18,000 children, with 1,800 special classes having been added in the past three years. He stated that the NCSE will lead in opening another...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (28 Feb 2024)

Helen McEntee: ...for a certificate of naturalisation are processed and assessed individually in accordance with the provisions of the Act. Applicants are required to have 5 years reckonable residence in the State prior to making an application, except for spouses of Irish nationals and people granted International Protection where the requirement is 3 years. In all cases, the final 12 months must be...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (28 Feb 2024)

Helen McEntee: ...to submit an application to the Domestic Residence and Permissions Division of my Department. Any application submitted should explain their current circumstances and future intentions in the State and should include the following supporting evidence; A copy of the person's and their spouse's passports A copy of their marriage certificate A copy of the birth certificate for the Irish...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Student Visas (27 Feb 2024)

Simon Harris: ..., the EU, the EEA, Switzerland or the UK for at least three of the five years before embarking on an approved third level course. To qualify for a student grant, the candidate's nationality or immigration status in the State determines whether they meet the nationality requirements. The nationality requirements for the student grant scheme are set out in the Student Support Act 2011 and...

Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (27 Feb 2024)

Thomas Pringle: I would like to echo the words of the Ceann Comhairle in respect of Deputy Collins. It is very true and important. I thank the Minister of State for the opportunity to speak to her on the Bill and I thank Deputy Ward for tabling it. I fully support this legislation for the regulation and reform of CAMHS under the Mental Health Act 2001. I am extremely disappointed with the Government's...