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Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

...: It is to maintain or increase the public-funded home care. In parts of the country, such as the east, this care is predominantly voluntary or private whereas the rest of the country has more direct provision, so this would be to rebalance it. That said, we always will need to work with both voluntary and private partners around this.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Oct 2022)

Brian Stanley: ...of Public Expenditure and Reform, and a guardian ad litem follow-up report with the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth. We will also examine that Department’s expenditure on direct provision. In November, we will hold an engagement with the regulator of the national lottery to examine Exchequer receipts from national lottery ticket sales. If there...

Housing for All Update: Statements (4 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...something dramatic changes, and I hope it does, we will exceed the figure of 11,000. A figure of 11,000 is not even the full figure because the Minister knows in Tusla funded domestic violence refuges, direct provision centres where people are trapped with leave to remain or hostels funded by the State, there are another 3,000 or 4,000 people in emergency accommodation. In many local...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Oct 2022) See 1 other result from this debate

Paul Gavan: ...000 people across the State. That does not include thousands of people who are effectively homeless, sleeping on couches, surfing across various apartments and so on. It does not include people in direct provision who cannot leave because of the state of the housing emergency. I want to make a clear call that the Government must act. It must do what the Scottish Government did. It...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (4 Oct 2022)

Norma Foley: ...cohort and the relative disadvantage within a given school.  The DEIS identification model takes into consideration the significant educational disadvantage experienced by Traveller and Roma learners and by students residing in direct provision or emergency homeless accommodation.  A detailed paper on the refined DEIS identification model is available on gov.ie...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (4 Oct 2022)

Norma Foley: ...cohort and the relative disadvantage within a given school.  The DEIS identification model takes into consideration the significant educational disadvantage experienced by Traveller and Roma learners and by students residing in direct provision or emergency homeless accommodation.  A detailed paper on the refined DEIS identification model is available on gov.ie...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (4 Oct 2022)

John Brady: 487. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide the accommodation capacity of each direct provision centre in County Wicklow by centre for each year since they were first used; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48515/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (28 Sep 2022)

Norma Foley: ...cohort and the relative disadvantage within a given school.  The DEIS identification model takes into consideration the significant educational disadvantage experienced by Traveller and Roma learners and by students residing in direct provision or emergency homeless accommodation.  A detailed paper on the refined DEIS identification model is available on gov.ie at:...

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Budget Statement 2023 (27 Sep 2022) See 1 other result from this debate

Thomas Pringle: ...our constituents. This is not a budget for our fishing communities, who have taken a huge hit this year, or for families affected by defective blocks. This is not a budget for those living in direct provision, for Travellers, farmers, small business owners, carers, foster carers, nurses, SNAs and teachers, our young people or those who live in rural Ireland. We seriously need to...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Sep 2022) See 1 other result from this debate

Eileen Flynn: ..., Disability, Integration and Youth, Deputy O'Gorman, I am in here two and a half years and it is more than a year and a half since the White Paper was published but I have not seen an end in sight for direct provision. I am not living in those horrible situations or living through that life experience. People in direct provision are in desperate need of answers. Before the summer...

Seanad: Budget 2023 (Public Expenditure and Reform): Statements (27 Sep 2022)

Frances Black: ...issues affect us all but not equally. We are making several steps forward in this area but we must ensure the groups in our society who experience the most acute suffering, including asylum seekers in direct provision, people in prisons and Travellers, get the mental healthcare they need. Senator Flynn will speak about Travellers in a few minutes. People who are on the margins of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disadvantaged Status (27 Sep 2022)

Norma Foley: ...and the relative disadvantage within a given school. The DEIS identification model takes into consideration the significant educational disadvantage experienced by Traveller and Roma learners and by students residing in direct provision or emergency homeless accommodation. A detailed paper on the refined DEIS identification model is available on gov.ie at...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disadvantaged Status (27 Sep 2022)

Norma Foley: ...and the relative disadvantage within a given school. The DEIS identification model takes into consideration the significant educational disadvantage experienced by Traveller and Roma learners and by students residing in direct provision or emergency homeless accommodation. A detailed paper on the refined DEIS identification model is available on gov.ie at...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (27 Sep 2022)

Josepha Madigan: ...relative disadvantage within a given school. The DEIS identification model takes into consideration the significant educational disadvantage experienced by Traveller and Roma learners and by students residing in direct provision or emergency homeless accommodation. A detailed paper on the refined DEIS identification model is available on gov.ie at: ...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: EU-UK Withdrawal Agreement: Discussion (22 Sep 2022)

...refugees who have come here from Ukraine has been positive and heartening. I applaud the different groups that are working to provide that response. Unfortunately, however, those people in the direct provision system in Ireland continue to experience human rights violations within their international protection experience. That is what we most want to see addressed. We want direct...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Dental Services (21 Sep 2022)

Mary Butler: ...about today by enabling vulnerable groups to access oral healthcare and improve their oral health. I have taken on board everything the Deputy said. I had a case where I was contacted by somebody in a direct provision centre in Carrick-on-Suir, which is not in my constituency but is only a few miles down the road. Again, I was able to go through the HSE and refer her on. It did take...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (21 Sep 2022)

Frank Feighan: ...included third level campuses, social and nightlife venues, needle exchanges, festivals, public STI clinics/ hospitals, the LGBTI+ Pride week, rapid HIV testing sessions, World AIDS Day events and direct Provision centres. NCDS condoms are also available through STI clinics and GPs registered to provide pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV prevention. It should be noted that, as...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Foster Care: Discussion (20 Sep 2022)

...not going away and new children are coming. We know with poverty and things like the cost-of-living crisis there will be an increase in children coming into care. We know from our experience in direct provision that, when children come from places of war, more children come into care and need more services. That crisis, if one wants to call it that, is not going away. It needs to be...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disadvantaged Status (15 Sep 2022)

Norma Foley: ...and the relative disadvantage within a given school. The DEIS identification model takes into consideration the significant educational disadvantage experienced by Traveller and Roma learners and by students residing in direct provision or emergency homeless accommodation. A detailed paper on the refined DEIS identification model is available on gov.ie at...