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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (24 May 2022)

Helen McEntee: ...were held with nine ethnic and culturally diverse groups from within our communities, including the Laois African Support Group, the LGBTQ+ Sligo IT, the Father Peter McVerry Trust and the Ballinamore direct provision centre. We have formal correspondence seeking the views and input from Departments as well as local authorities, non-governmental agencies and community representatives as...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Women, Peace and Security: Engagement with the Irish Consortium on Gender Based Violence (24 May 2022)

...'s perceptions on this being the right thing to do. Here in Ireland that is also coming up as working with communities here and some of our organisations, for example Action Aid, are working in direct provision centres on issues around FGM. It is a challenging one for sure. I might pass over to Ms Van Lieshout to talk about the UN Security Council. To clarify, the eight meetings were...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Construction Costs in Housing: Discussion (24 May 2022)

Francis Noel Duffy: ...be in the workforce, what the shortfall is and how that needs to be made up. We could then push that with the Government or whomever. The issues of 35,000 units per year, retrofitting, Ukraine and direct provision are all in there. What construction workforce do we need? From what the witnesses stated, it sounds like we are only halfway to where we need to be if we are only able to...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 May 2022)

Brian Stanley: ...of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, dated 9 May 2022. It provides information requested by the committee regarding a timeline for the implementation of the White Paper to end direct provision and the establishment of a new international protection support service. The Secretary General addresses the impact of the war in Ukraine on that work, stating that almost...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (19 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: 337. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason that was used by her Department in 2000 when the decision was taken to commence the direct provision system; the studies, risk assessments and policy deliberations and so on that were conducted by her Department at the time; the advice that the advisors Government and external advisors relied upon to support the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 May 2022)

Micheál Martin: ...December and is currently open for applications; advancing proposals to deal effectively with the issue of domestic, sexual and gender-based violence through a third national strategy; ending the direct provision system and replacing it with a new international protection accommodation policy; extending paid parental leave, allowing parents to spend more time with their baby during his or...

Seanad: Quality in Public Procurement (Contract Preparation and Award Criteria) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (18 May 2022)

Frances Black: ...This is what made outrageous the National Gallery of Ireland's decision to award the contract for its café to the multinational catering conglomerate, Aramark, which is involved in running several direct provision centres in the country.I do not need to list the many outrageous elements of the direct provision system to the Chamber. I know that the Government has expressed a desire...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (18 May 2022)

Pa Daly: .... To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide a list of the properties which his Department currently has lease arrangements for the provision of direct provision and any other accommodation for those seeking asylum; and if he will provide a corresponding list of the service providers in each of these properties. [25055/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (17 May 2022)

Micheál Martin: ...efforts to address domestic, sexual and gender-based violence, and matters relating to arts and culture, children, justice, policing reform and community safety, disability, social inclusion, direct provision, the Irish language, and sport. In addition, the section has departmental oversight of the National Economic and Social Council. It participates in relevant interdepartmental...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Ukrainian Crisis: Discussion (17 May 2022) See 3 other results from this debate

Roderic O'Gorman: ...an influx of refugees like that we have seen over the past three months. We are receiving this influx at a time when our own housing crisis is severe and when more than 10,000 people are in direct provision, which is a system, as we know, the Government is working to end. My Department’s role is focused on the immediate accommodation needs of those who have fled here. To date,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disadvantaged Status (12 May 2022)

Norma Foley: ...through the application of a weighted process. It also takes into consideration the significant educational disadvantage experienced by Travellers and Roma learners and of students residing in direct provision or state funded emergency homeless accommodation. Schools were not required to apply for inclusion in the DEIS programme and the model has been applied fairly and equally to all...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Ukraine War (10 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will reconsider the decision to award a company (details supplied) the contract to provide meals to Ukrainian refugees in direct provision centres; and if he will revoke the current contract for the company for direct provision centres given the reports of below standard food being provided by the company. [22803/22]

Accommodation Needs of Those Fleeing Ukraine: Statements (5 May 2022) See 5 other results from this debate

Catherine Connolly: ...for refugees, as I do, but she makes it perfectly clear that they are white and European or on the European Continent and we have a completely different approach when refugees are not from the European Continent and when they are of a different colour. I raise that as a serious cause of reflection because as we speak, we have 2,000 people in direct provision who have permission to go...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Situations of Risk and Humanitarian Emergencies: Discussion (Resumed) (5 May 2022)

..., this is not about us doing something that is kind or nice; it is about our obligations as a state party to an international treaty. We spoke about inaccessible accommodation. The reality is that direct provision centres are anything but accessible or inclusive for autistic people. As long as people are staying there, we are deeply failing in that regard. The Deputy spoke about...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí agus ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy and Legislation (28 Apr 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...has been a very controversial company It has been criticised for the poor quality of its catering in US prisons and for the poor quality of some of the catering it provides people in the abhorrent direct provision system. There were protests by artists and workers at the National Gallery about it getting the contract for the café in the National Gallery, which is right here beside...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (28 Apr 2022) See 4 other results from this debate

Matt Carthy: I welcome our guests. We have spoken before about direct provision and responsibility for that has moved to the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth. Will Ms McPhillips comment on or explain why she believes it the case that the responsible Department has now determined so many direct provision contracts to be non-compliant? I understand these are contracts...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Apr 2022)

Brian Stanley: Procurement generally will need to be discussed with it at the meeting. It is on the work programme and responsibility for direct provision now resides with that Department. I also propose that we schedule an engagement with the National Pediatric Hospital Development Board in June, with representatives from the Department of Health. The board was last before the committee in July last...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Issues relating to International Surrogacy Arrangements and Achieving Parental Recognition: Discussion (28 Apr 2022)

Lynn Ruane: We think of the number of people in direct provision, the delay in this and their access to the right to family life and to pursue all of this if they want to travel abroad. Let us imagine for a moment a delay in the naturalisation process of one intended non-biological parent. Under the guardianship process of the other intended non-biological parent would the child have automatic...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (27 Apr 2022) See 2 other results from this debate

...margins are facing from the very first point of access. Going back to the points around coverage, if a person is in a rural area that does not have a GP service robustly in place or lives in a direct provision centre and does not have a PPS number yet or, indeed, a medical card, that person will face challenges trying to use public transport to get to a provider. It really speaks to...