Results 101-120 of 948 for "direct provision"

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Irish Refugee Council (19 May 2016)

Mr. Rory O'Neill: In the context of homelessness, it is during the transition from direct provision that people need help. If they got help with integration while they were in direct provision, that would make the transition a lot easier. They need to learn about the systems and structures they will have to negotiate once they get out. The big issue is integration while they are in the...

Direct Provision: Statements (30 Mar 2017) See 2 other results from this debate

Kathleen Funchion: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this issue which is of huge concern to many of us here. With good reason, direct provision can be called the Magdalen laundries of our time. I believe it will be the subject of inquiry in years to come. Direct provision centres are often referred to as holding camps and sites of deportability. The Free Legal Advice Centres states that these privately...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed) (11 May 2017) See 2 other results from this debate

Catherine Murphy: In his opening statement, Mr. Waters made reference to the fact that there were no "cheaper alternatives" to direct provision. As a country we have been criticised repeatedly about direct provision in the context of human rights. We can always do things more cheaply. However, we must look at things in the round. We must balance the cost of direct provision against meeting our human rights...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Direct Provision Centres (26 May 2020)

Michael Collins: People in direct provision centres in this country have been treated appallingly. This is something I have said before, and I say it again today. Our Government has failed these people, and the people of the communities in which people in direct provision live. As I said a few months ago, this is a box-ticking exercise by the Government. It was trying to show Europe and the world how it...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Direct Provision System (11 Nov 2020)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...Protection Process on 21 October. Minister McEntee and I submitted the report to Government the previous day and the Government accepted the Advisory Group’s conclusion that the current system of Direct Provision is not fit for purpose and must be replaced. The Programme for Government contains a committment to ending the Direct Provision system and replacing it with a new...

Committee on Public Petitions: Safety and Welfare of Children in Direct Provision Report: Discussion (22 Jun 2021)

Jerry Buttimer: ...whole-of-government - I did not want to use the word "Government" - approach, that everyone moves in the same direction and that we all engage and listen. We have probably not listened to people in direct provision. They are people, and all they want is a better life for themselves. The Chairman referred to the perception of a social welfare state. I know no one in direct provision who...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payments Eligibility (26 Jul 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 1656. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will issue a circular to all local authorities in which there are direct provision centres recommending that the local authority provide homeless HAP payments to residents of direct provision who have secured their leave to remain but due to the housing crisis have been unable to source permanent accommodation and are...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (11 May 2021)

Holly Cairns: 574. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on the finding in the Ombudsman for Children's report Safety and Welfare of Children in Direct Provision that Tusla has failed to identify a named social worker for a direct provision centre in their area or to provide cultural diversity training and interpreting services for staff working with...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Jul 2020)

Eileen Flynn: I echo what has been said about the third day of hunger strike for the people in direct provision. This is one example of people living in pure poverty in 2020 Ireland. It is clear that people living in direct provision do not want to be there and are getting treated horribly by the State and some in the communities around them. I, therefore, support the call for a debate on ending direct...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Asylum Seeker Accommodation (20 Nov 2019)

Jim O'Callaghan: As of this month, approximately 7,500 people are availing of accommodation services under the direct provision system run by the Department of Justice and Equality. In total, 35% of those residents have been waiting in direct provision more that two years, and 22% have been waiting more than three years. What is the Government's plan for dealing with this ever-increasing issue and does it...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Direct Provision Payments (12 Jun 2018)

Regina Doherty: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1202 and 1203 together. Protection seekers are offered accommodation under the system of direct provision operated by the Reception & Integration Agency (RIA) of the Department of Justice and Equality. Those who accept direct provision are provided with accommodation, food and health services together with other facilities and services designed to...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2022 (Supplementary)
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Revised) (12 Oct 2022)

Mark Ward: The Government made the important commitment to end direct provision and the situation in Ukraine and other world crises impact that. One of the biggest direct provision centres is in my area in Clondalkin. It is there a long time and the families are part of our community at this stage. They play on the local football team and go to school with my kids and other children in the area. ...

Written Answers — Asylum Support Services: Asylum Support Services (18 Dec 2007) See 1 other result from this answer

Brian Lenihan Jnr: The Reception and Integration Agency is responsible, inter alia, for the accommodation of asylum seekers through the policy of Direct Provision. The Direct Provision system seeks to ensure that the accommodation and ancillary services provided by the State meet the requirements of asylum seekers in the period during which their applications for asylum are being processed. This system provides...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with the Society of St. Vincent de Paul and Family Carers Ireland (5 May 2021)

Paddy Burke: ...across the State or is it the SVP and similar organisation which define it? It has been stated that there are 600,000 households who are below the poverty line. My second question relates to direct provision. I had presumed that all of those in direct provision are on the same level. It has been mentioned that people in direct provision contact our guests' organisations. Is that...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jul 2020)

Annie Hoey: I will speak about direct provision and some serious concerns raised by residents of direct provision centres about how they are treated. These are based on recent correspondence residents received from the international protection accommodation service, IPAS, regarding those who leave direct provision overnight and similar matters. The correspondence states that in line with previous public...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Children and Family Services (27 May 2015)

James Reilly: As the Deputy is aware, Direct Provision is under the remit of my colleague, the Minister for Justice and Equality. With regards to the welfare of children in Direct Provision centres, there are a range of supports available to families resident within the centres facilitated by Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, as well as other bodies such as the Department of Education, Department of...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Direct Provision Data (19 Jan 2016)

Kevin Humphreys: The direct provision allowance is a non-statutory payment administered by the Department of Social Protection on behalf of the Department of Justice and Equality to persons in the Direct Provision system. The Government has provided €3.6 million for direct provision allowance in 2016. The Government has recently approved an increase in the weekly direct provision allowance payment in...

Committee on Public Petitions: Office of the Ombudsman Annual Report 2021: Office of the Ombudsman (16 Feb 2023)

Martin Browne: I totally agree with Mr. Deering, as would all public representatives. Some of the forms we help people to fill in are mind-boggling. As regards the White Paper on direct provision, all present agree in respect of the need to do away with or scale down direct provision. Instead of the numbers reducing, however, they have increased by 80. Has the Office of the Ombudsman received...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (17 Sep 2014) See 3 other results from this answer

Tommy Broughan: 693. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will indicate, of the current numbers of persons in direct provision here, the length of time those living in direct provision are awaiting a decision on their application to remain here; if she will provide a breakdown of the number of people living in direct provision for one year, two years, three years, four years, five years, six...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Direct Provision System (17 Oct 2018)

Bríd Smith: What plans does the Minister have to end the direct provision system? It is more than three years since the McMahon report was published, which has been discussed at length in the House. Judgment was passed in the court case on the right to work, which is extremely restricted and very difficult for people in direct provision to access. I ask the Minister to comment on the latest figures on...