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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (14 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 464. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated cost, broken into current and capital, of ending direct provision. [49884/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (14 Nov 2023)

Martin Browne: 472. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of people currently in the direct provision system; to list the type of accommodation IPAs are being housed in; the length of time spent by IPAs in these accommodation types; to provide those figures in increments of three months and based on accommodation types; and if he will make a statement on...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Human Trafficking) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (14 Nov 2023)

Pa Daly: It clearly gets rid of a requirement for trafficked persons to enter direct provision and that is why we are pressing the amendment. As regards amendment No. 16, which is in the name of Deputy Pringle, it allows access for an immigration permission for trafficked person because people who are trafficked are less likely to come forward as they fear deportation. We support that. I am sorry...

Seanad: Gnó an tSeanaid - Business of Seanad (8 Nov 2023)

Jerry Buttimer: ...in the Middle East and elsewhere. Senator Aidan Davitt – The need for the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to make a statement on the total annual expenditure in the operation of direct provision and related services and supports, and the total expenditure to date in the provision of accommodation, supports and services for refugees following...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services (7 Nov 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...to ensure continuity. I ask for an assurance that we do not see a closure of the service and that a new owner can keep it open after taking over. In addition, the State has to be open to the direct provision of childcare. We believe, and I think it is the Minister's philosophy as well, that childcare is a public good so the State has to be willing to open places itself. That is...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Child Safety (7 Nov 2023)

John Brady: The Minister will be aware that the Ombudsman for Children published a report last month which cites concerns that children in direct provision and other forms of accommodation are not safe. He wrote: “How we treat children coming to this country will be a defining issue of our generation, and as things stand, history will not judge us well.” While I welcome the measures in...

Committee on Mental Health: Mental Health Care for Migrants and Ethnic Minorities: Discussion (7 Nov 2023) See 5 other results from this debate

...the needs of those seeking international protection and Ukrainian beneficiaries of temporary protection. It is imperative to act upon recommendation 63 of Sharing the Vision and ensure that persons in direct provision services and refugees arriving under the Irish refugee protection programme have access to appropriate tiered mental health services through primary care and specialist...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (7 Nov 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...from 2017-2019. In the context of the increasing international protection (IP) numbers since January 2022, there is a recognition that the underlying assumptions on which the White Paper to end Direct Provision and Establish a new International Protection Support Service was based need to be re-examined, as the assumptions underpinning it are based on 3,500 new arrivals each year....

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (7 Nov 2023)

Catherine Connolly: ..., Disability, Integration and Youth his plans for the implementation of each of the three recommendations in the special report by the Ombudsman for Children, “Safety and Welfare of Children in Direct Provision” (October 2023); the timeline for implementation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48454/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: White Papers (7 Nov 2023) See 1 other result from this answer

Ivana Bacik: 973. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will make a statement on the implementation of the White Paper on ending Direct Provision. [47281/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Correspondence (7 Nov 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...my Department is working to procure new accommodation, and transition current residents from EACs to more permanent accommodation within the portfolio. The commitments made in A White Paper to end Direct Provision and Establish a new International Protection Support Service are still a key priority for my Department. The implementation of the White paper has been significantly impacted by...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (7 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 1002. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when his Department started to write to people with status or leave to remain in direct provision centres giving them dates by which they would have to leave the direct provision centre or be moved to another centre; the number of such letters issued to date; the criteria for issuing such letters; the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Equality Issues (7 Nov 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...St. Paul’s Community College St. Paul's Community College Integration Project Waterford The Walls Project CLG Waterford Walls Community Wall 2023 Waterford Waterford Immigration Network (WIN) Social Integration Activities for adults and children living in Direct Provision Waterford ...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (7 Nov 2023)

Catherine Connolly: ..., Integration and Youth the timeline for the introduction of a payment equivalent to child benefit for all children in the international protection process, as promised in the White Paper to End Direct Provision and to Establish a New International Protection Support Service; the estimated cost of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48432/23]

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 4: Accountability of the Central Funding of Local Authorities. (26 Oct 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

...for future delivery of water services was agreed in June 2022 and provides the basis for Uisce Éireann to work with local authorities to complete the integration of public water services. Local authorities will cease involvement in the direct provision of water services from December 2026. The Government’s voted Exchequer investment in Uisce Éireann is substantial under...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Code (24 Oct 2023) See 3 other results from this debate

Joe O'Brien: ...plan is that there will be one of these practitioners in every Tusla area. I think there will be 17 in total, and some of these are in place now. This will improve the situation on the ground in direct provision centres.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Discussion (24 Oct 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: ...these parallel but overlapping services. It might be that the Ukrainian kids are getting dropped to school on a school bus that has ten empty places. It might that there is a bus coming from the direct provision centre. It might be that there is a bus coming to service the need of a child with a disability. Then we have the regular school transport bus. Again, it feels like we have...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Oct 2023)

Jennifer Whitmore: The Ombudsman for Children today laid before the Dáil a special report on the safety and welfare of children in direct provision. This is the first time in their 20-year history that they have taken this action, which really illustrates the seriousness of these issues and of their concerns. They want this report to spur Government on to meet the commitments made in 2021. One of those...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consideration of the Citizens' Assembly Report on a Directly Elected Mayor of Dublin: Discussion (19 Oct 2023)

...planning, libraries and the public realm to name a few. Others are very effectively provided on a regional basis, such as homeless services and the fire service, for example. In other areas the council has moved away from the direct provision of some services such as domestic waste and fulfils a more regulatory role. What is proposed will bring about significant change across the entire...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (18 Oct 2023)

Norma Foley: ...in relation to average fleet for the years requested by the Deputy. Bus Éireann school transport scheme benefits from the availability of cascaded vehicles from the wider Bus Éireann PSO fleet for use on direct provision services, due to the extended operating life of vehicles used on school transport services. The 2023/2024 fleet is estimated as any additional fleet is assumed...