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- Industrial Relations (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage (18 Oct 2018)
Pat Breen: .... The Garda associations have participated fully in this process and more detailed discussions facilitated by the WRC. The House may be aware that some of the Garda associations have expressed disappointment at the decision of the Government not to extend trade union status and the benefits that status gives to the Garda representative associations in the same manner as other employee...
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Rights (27 Sep 2016)
Pat Breen: ...a General Employment permit application was refused on 1 September 2016 for a number of reasons: the occupation of barber is included on the current list of ineligible occupations; the visitor immigration status held by the employee precluded him from taking up employment; and the employer did not have any employees at the time of application and therefore did not satisfy the requirement...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Second Global Irish Economic Forum: Discussion with Department of Foreign Affairs (8 May 2013)
Pat Breen: ...in the Global Irish Economic Forum are just one part of the story of the Irish diaspora. It is very important that we continue to prioritise the plight of the many undocumented Irish in the US. Their status leaves them in a legal limbo which affects their lives in many ways, whether it is their ability to get secure employment or travel home for family funerals. Addressing this issue...
- International Human Trafficking: Motion (Resumed) (18 Nov 2009)
Pat Breen: ...when they arrive in a country like Ireland and find they have no jobs. As they are in a strange country, they become dependent on the trafficker. They do not know anybody else and their illegal status gives the trafficker the upper hand. The Leas-Cheann Comhairle will be aware of the case in his constituency in 2001 when eight Turkish refugees lost their lives coming to Ireland. They...
- Undocumented Irish in the United States: Motion (6 Nov 2007)
Pat Breen: .... That is how serious the situation is at the moment. When I pass through Shannon Airport, I often see a picture of John F. Kennedy waving goodbye as he left Ireland in 1963. If the current US immigration laws had been in force when his great-grandfather, Patrick Kennedy, left Ireland, John F. Kennedy would never have been President of the United States â that is the funny thing about...