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Seanad: Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Second Stage (11 Jul 2022)

Barry Ward: ...well on Ireland. Ukrainian Members of Parliament, including the four who visited this House not very long ago, are astonished at the flexibility of our Government in dealing, for example, with the immigration issue. From a justice perspective, the ability of a government to react to that crisis and to remove immigration restrictions on Ukrainian citizens coming to Ireland was not just a...

Seanad: Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2020)

Barry Ward: ...the amendments because she identifies some important issues. Section 121 of the Bill inserts into the Act of 2015 three new sections, 51A, 51B and 51C. Section 51B refers to the power of an immigration officer or member of An Garda Síochána to arrest a person and bring a person to a place of detention. On the face of it, that sounds like a draconian power. I acknowledge what...

Seanad: Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2020)

Barry Ward: ..., we should err on the side of caution. While I am sympathetic to that view, that is not what the amendment states. Amendment No. 17 refers to the situation where the relevant officer, being an immigration officer or member of An Garda Síochána, does not have documentation to prove the person's age. I suggest that there is a large gap between knowing and being able to prove a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2020: Engagement with the Minister for Justice (6 Oct 2020)

Barry Ward: ...has experience and competence in that area. The other small issue I wanted to raise was in relation to the use of the term "non-national", which is varied in the Statute Book in so far as the immigration legislation tends to refer to non-nationals and even aliens going back to 1935. In the 1950s, or certainly by the end of the 1990s, we were changing the word "alien" and using the word...