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International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2024)

Helen McEntee: I thank all of those who spoke. Including this week, last week and in the Seanad, there have been more than 12.5 hours of debate and questions on the migration pact, as well as numerous debates in this House prior to that and questions at the Oireachtas committee. I have listened to and been part of all those debates and responded to questions any time I have been asked. When we are...

International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2024)

Cormac Devlin: I join in the tributes expressed across the House on the passing of two Irish legends of broadcasting. The wonderful Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh was the sound of the GAA, the sound of Sunday and for generations of fans he was an exceptionally descriptive broadcaster and was also generous with his time, particularly in promoting the Irish language, his native tongue. I offer my...

International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: There must be an election looming again as Sinn Féin has done another U-turn. It now states it no longer wants open borders. It now wants to look at things differently. I am working with many nationalities in this country and always have done so. It is harder now to get into the country with paperwork than it is without paperwork in certain cases. I refer to people who come with...

International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2024)

Pearse Doherty: What we are debating today is whether Ireland should opt in fully and wholesale to the EU migration pact. Sinn Féin's position is crystal clear and it is that we should not. It is not in Ireland's interest. Ireland and Europe have seen a significant increase in migration rates for a number of years. In 2019 the number of people applying for international protection in the State was...

International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2024)

Joan Collins: I will not support the pact. It writes a broken system into law. It disregards the humanity of people fleeing war and persecution. It weakens our humanity by treating people who need help with detention and punishment. It reinforces the false idea we have a refugee crisis and not a crisis in how we run our economies, societies and international system. We do not have refugee crisis....

International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2024)

Leo Varadkar: I join with colleagues who earlier expressed their condolences on the passing of Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh and Tommie Gorman. It is a very sad day for Ireland to see two such wonderful people pass away, people who have made such an enormous contribution to society in so many different ways. I support the EU migration and asylum pact and will vote for it tomorrow. In the...

International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2024)

Pat Buckley: I welcome this opportunity. I have listened to everybody. I feel like we are chaining ourselves to the asylum and migration pact in the sense of taking an all-or-nothing approach. While there are good elements to it, I have some fears in regard to it. The current system is broken and we have not got it right. We cannot buy a bee in a box because we do not know what will be in the final...

International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2024)

International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2024)

The following motion was moved by the Taoiseach on Tuesday, 18 June 2024:

International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2024)

Debate resumed on amendment No. 1: - (Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire)

International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: When the debate on the motion was nearing an end the last day, Deputy Durkan was offering. I call him now.

International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I am glad to have an opportunity to speak on this issue. I have listened to the debate so far. I was intrigued by the tone it took at some stages, which was reminiscent of the debate that took place in the UK before Brexit. It would appear that we had decided we were going to assert ourselves in a way we had not known about before, we were going to go it alone and come up with our own...

International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2024)

David Stanton: If a jumbo jet with 500 people were to crash in the Atlantic Ocean tonight and all the passengers drowned, it would make headline news tomorrow. Last year, the equivalent of six jumbo jets full of people drowned in the Mediterranean Sea trying to cross into Europe. These were desperate people getting on coffin ships. We had this happen in our own history. Some 186,000 people tried to...

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (25 Jun 2024)

Helen McEntee: As I did not do so earlier, I would like to offer my sincerest condolences to the family of Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh. I had the pleasure of meeting him on many occasions. I know people remember him fondly for many different reasons, in particular his wonderful and colourful coverage of our national sports. Later on, as the Minister of State with responsibility for older...

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (25 Jun 2024)

Amendment put.

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (25 Jun 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: In accordance with Standing Order 80(2), the division is postponed until the weekly division time on Wednesday, 26 June 2024.

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (25 Jun 2024)

Helen McEntee: I move: That Dáil Éireann resolves that section 8 of the Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009 (No. 32 of 2009) shall continue in operation for the period beginning on 30th June, 2024 and ending on 29th June, 2025.

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (25 Jun 2024)

Pa Daly: I move amendment No.1: To delete all words after "Dáil Éireann" and substitute the following: ": — resolves that section 8 of the Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009 (No. 32 of 2009) shall continue in operation for the period beginning on 30th June, 2024 and ending on 29th June, 2025; and — calls on the Minister for Justice to bring forward legislation to...

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (25 Jun 2024)

Amendment put.

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (25 Jun 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: In accordance with Standing Order 80(2), the division is postponed until the weekly division time on Wednesday, 26 June 2024.