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Seanad: EU Regulations: Motion (26 Apr 2023)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...set of new API rules, for example, on those people seeking international protection. I have already noticed some contradictions. The Department has said that API data can be consulted for immigration purposes in accordance with existing API rules and used to identify persons of concern who are due to arrive or have arrived on a relevant flight, including undocumented arrivals. However,...

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

Alice-Mary Higgins: .... I know that Belarus is not directly concerned here but we heard about it in the debate. A member state, Poland, is effectively denying people their rights under the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, by refoulementand pushing people back into Belarus who have crossed that border. It is important that we are clear that no matter what means people have come into contact with...

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

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...who is in fact entering a prosecutorial system where he or she must defend themselves as a humanitarian, particularly when that might be the caregiver or the person who needs to be navigating the immigration process. Even the fact of being in a potential prosecution could compromise somebody's ability to even seek asylum, for example, or other legitimate immigration status. Most of these...

Seanad: Provision of Accommodation and Ancillary Services to Applicants for International Protection: Statements (27 Nov 2019)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...seek asylum coming from wherever. Legal migration takes many courses. If it turns out that a person does not satisfy the criteria, which are very strictly set out, for achieving refugee and protected status, it does not mean the person is illegal or a fraud. It means people have not qualified under one remit and there are other remits, under which they may qualify. If they do not, in...

Seanad: Irish Nationality and Citizenship (Naturalisation of Minors Born in Ireland) Bill 2018: Second Stage (21 Nov 2018)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...which we have had since then. The principle of the children's rights referendum was that each child has rights inherent in themselves. The debate on the 2004 referendum was focused on the immigration status of a parent. The children's rights referendum we had since shows that the people of Ireland believe children have inherent rights and should be able to access them. It would be...

Seanad: Immigration (Reform) (Regularisation of Residency Status) Bill 2016: Second Stage (29 Jun 2016)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...and properly applied, which we can stand over.Not only do I reject the amendment, I also reject arguments to the effect that we should suspend fair systems within our asylum, refugee and immigration system in order to facilitate negotiation in respect of a common travel area. Are we to chase the narrative on immigration that we have heard in the UK? Unfortunately, that is what some of...