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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 apologise that I have to take parliamentary questions in the House later. I would have moved or changed them otherwise. I am pleased to be here today to discuss the proposal that the State exercises its option to participate in the EU asylum and migration pact and I thank the committee for its engagement on this matter. As the committee will be aware, following intensive...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Mattie McGrath: ...are repetitive. I was addressing other issues in the Dáil. Opting into this pact greatly undermines Ireland's democratic sovereignty by giving exclusive power to the EU to decide on our immigration policies. The pact includes a mandatory solidarity mechanism, forcing countries to choose between accepting migrants or paying hefty sums into a common fund. A question I wish to pose...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Michael McNamara: The Minister pointed out that it is an offence for the vast majority of people to present at Dublin Airport or any frontier of the State without a passport. In 2023, 3,285 people did so and there were no prosecutions; the previous year there were 4,200 people and no prosecutions. I asked in a parliamentary question why that was the case and the Minister stated that prosecutions are entirely...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Helen McEntee: All I can state clearly is that decisions taken to prosecute are decisions taken by An Garda Síochána and the DPP. The Garda National Immigration Bureau, GNIB, is working collectively with the system to make sure that where people are potentially abusing the system or where there are laws that are abused that, at its discretion, it makes those decisions. It is the case that now...