Results 261-280 of 3,512 for "direct provision"

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Seekers (28 Feb 2023)

Simon Harris: ...period for access to the labour market to 3 months as recommended by the Catherine Day Report, the reduction of the waiting period to 6 months was guided by the Report of the Inter-Departmental Group on Direct Provision and the Review of Access to the Labour Market for persons seeking international protection. The review of access to the labour market also recommended that the changes...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Development Projects (23 Feb 2023)

Heather Humphreys: ...example of how we can have real and meaningful community engagement that delivers for people. Deputy Kerrane mentioned Ballaghaderreen. The local development company is providing support to the direct provision centre there. In fairness, these local development companies have done good work throughout the country. In my constituency, the local development company has engaged in Cavan...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Schemes (23 Feb 2023)

Joe O'Brien: ...employees reported across the 5 organisations with outputs outlined below: - 433 Bicycles Upcycled - 49 of these have been redirected to relevant end users (those on low incomes, disadvantaged individuals/communities, and those in direct provision or similar). - A total of 4 individuals have been certified as qualified bike mechanics/trainers through the programme. - A total of 10...

Eviction Ban Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Feb 2023)

Verona Murphy: ...between two stools are those who are working hard but will never own their own home. We have 11,632 people homeless and those figures are very debatable given that we have 4,500 people within the direct provision system who are now citizens of this country. Even though they no longer belong in direct provision, they cannot find accommodation and so are stuck in the system. This is...

Seanad: Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Statements (22 Feb 2023) See 2 other results from this debate

Sharon Keogan: ...and logistics, we are limited in our ability to adequately care for the people we take in and, as we take more in, that ability is stretched to breaking. In 2020, the Government stated it would end direct provision. It has since had the honesty to state that it would no longer be possible to achieve that within the allotted timeframe due to the requirement to handle the processing and...

Housing and Evictions: Motion [Private Members] (21 Feb 2023)

Duncan Smith: ...weeks as we pick up more information on the ground. I put to the Minister our concern that we are seeing not the extension of accommodation for international protection applicants but, rather, the extension of direct provision and actors in that space in whom we are not confident to deliver what we need for these people.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Feb 2023)

Eileen Flynn: ...' mental health, as well as some of the positive changes that have been made. It is not all negative. I welcome the discussions that will be held tomorrow about people who are living in direct provision and their accommodation. I ask people with all my heart that before they come in here tomorrow to remember that in order to debate these people’s lives we have to understand...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Integration and Refugee Issues: Discussion (21 Feb 2023) See 4 other results from this debate

.... Figures and groups try to insert themselves, both online and offline, into local communities. They exploit locals’ concerns to further their agenda and this has been evident in protests against direct provision centres for years, including in Oughterard, Roosky and Killarney. In 2020, the far-right used Covid-19 theories to grow their reach, particularly through the use of...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Ukraine War (21 Feb 2023)

Michael McGrath: As the Deputy will be aware, the direct provision of service and supports to Ukraine and the Ukrainian people primarily falls to other Government Departments. However, the Department does provide support through a number of indirect channels, notably EU Member State guarantees for Macro-Financial Assistance (MFA) loans and monies to cover the associated interest rate costs; the Revenue...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: State Bodies (21 Feb 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: ...analysis of the market for data on the non-profit sector. This report examined, inter alia, issues around the demand for the data concerned; methodologies and technologies used; the potential for direct provision by the State of these services itself, and; the maturity of the market to provide these services efficiently. On foot of this report, a review was undertaken in 2020 which found...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Ukraine War (21 Feb 2023)

Paschal Donohoe: ...Works (OPW). Costs to date stand at €2.4 million on the OPW Vote. This spend relates to supports for building works, provision of temporary structures and associated costs to allow to for increased numbers at receptions centres and direct provision centres.

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Ukraine War (21 Feb 2023)

Catherine Martin: ...of Ukraine by Russian forces on 24 February, Ireland has stood in unwavering solidarity with the people and government of Ukraine. As the Deputy will be aware, my Department is not responsible for the direct provision of public services.Therefore my Department has not provided direct supports to Ukrainian refugees in the State. However, in addition to supporting the Department of...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Asylum Seekers (21 Feb 2023) See 1 other result from this answer

Carol Nolan: ..., Disability, Integration and Youth if he will explain the thinking behind his decision in February 2021, to write tweets in 47 different languages publicising the report recommending the end of direct provision and proposals to provide "own-door" accommodation to asylum seekers; and if he will outline the contribution this made to the number seeking asylum in Ireland in the intervening...

Co-ordination of International Protection Services: Statements (16 Feb 2023) See 9 other results from this debate

Joan Collins: ...couple of points in the three minutes available to me. For years, the Opposition has called for changes to the asylum process in this country, including when the Green Party was in opposition. The direct provision system is a national disgrace and a national embarrassment. It was set up to discourage people seeking international protection in Ireland by creating a service that was...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Resumed) (16 Feb 2023) See 11 other results from this debate

Brian Stanley: ..., Integration and Youth to resume examination of the appropriation account 2021 for Vote 40 – Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth. The committee is particularly interested in direct provision expenditure and international protection, emergency accommodation, modular homes, and accommodation contracts and related processes. We are joined by the following officials...

Committee on Public Petitions: Office of the Ombudsman Annual Report 2021: Office of the Ombudsman (16 Feb 2023) See 3 other results from this debate

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...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (15 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: One of the scandalous aspects of the direct provision system is how it has often left direct provision residents and asylum seekers at the mercy of management and those in management abusing their power against them. What measures are in place to stop this happening with regard to Ukrainian refugees who are staying in places that did not previously have refugees, for example, hotels? I...

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

Mattie McGrath: ...confirm if his Department has had any discussions with any person, business or organisation in Cahir, County Tipperary, in relation to the use of a building (details supplied) in Cahir town as a Direct Provision centre or to use as emergency accommodation for persons seeking international protection; if he will outline any engagements his Department may have had in relation to said...

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

Catherine Connolly: 443. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 1125 of 19 January 2022, the number of direct provision centres, emergency centres, reception centres and tented accommodation locations which were in use by the International Protection Accommodation Services as of 31 December 2019, 2020 and 2022; the occupancy of each of...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice (Revised)
Vote 41 - Policing Authority (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised) (14 Feb 2023)

Martin Kenny: ...íordáin mentioned National Public Health Emergency Team, NPHET, and Covid-19 - the same people who were shouting at people going into injection centres are the same people who are now roaring and shouting outside direct provision centres. They are the same people leading this charge. There are people in the community who have, for many good reasons, issues with the Government...