Results 281-300 of 3,512 for "direct provision"

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Ministerial Responsibilities (9 Feb 2023)

Joe O'Brien: ...crisis arising from the conflict in Ukraine. A call for proposals for projects under AMIF is planned in 2023. The exact budget is to be determined. As committed to under the White Paper to end direct provision and to establish a new international protection support service, a new international protection integration fund was launched in 2022. This fund offered grants to civil society...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (9 Feb 2023) See 2 other results from this debate

Roderic O'Gorman: ...been delays and we are looking at how to address them. The Deputy is also correct about the need to streamline and speed up the assessment of people's applications for international protection. One of the reasons direct provision became such a problem is that people were left in the system for so long. I recognise the work the Minister, Deputy McEntee, did and the Minister, Deputy...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Feb 2023)

Brian Stanley: ...McAuliffe. I will now move on to our work programme. Next week we will resume our engagement with the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth with specific focus on direct provision expenditure, international protection and emergency accommodation. On 23 February, we will engage with the Central Bank, representatives from the Office of the Revenue...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (9 Feb 2023) See 1 other result from this answer

Matt Carthy: 73. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of persons seeking international protection currently in emergency accommodation and-or direct provision centres within each local authority area. [5850/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (9 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: 81. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he can clarify the position with regard to the programme for Government commitment to end the direct provision system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6072/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Unaccompanied Minors and Separated Children (9 Feb 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 88. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of unaccompanied minors currently seeking asylum in Ireland; and the number who are resident in direct provision centres, residential care or foster care. [5637/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Raising Awareness of the Lived Experience of Congregated Settings: Discussion (9 Feb 2023)

...Ireland today is that of institutionalisation and institutional thinking. Ireland has a long and sad history of institutionalisation, from workhouses to Magdalen laundries and psychiatric institutions to direct provision centres and congregated settings for disabled people. We have closed many institutions in Ireland in recent years and yet the legacy of institutionalisation lives on...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2023)

Fiona O'Loughlin: .... It has a huge responsibility to help those who are fleeing from persecution. Regarding the situation of those not having papers and those seeking asylum here, something that we hear quite often – I certainly do about the direct provision centre that is just beside my office – we need to have these situations dealt with in a quicker fashion. We need to have both...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Revised)
Vote 25 - Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (Revised) (8 Feb 2023) See 2 other results from this debate

Roderic O'Gorman: ...an increase of €33 million to €395 million in 2023. The funding will allow for the continuing provision of accommodation to those seeking international protection. The allocation also includes funding towards implementing the recommendations of the White Paper to end direct provision and to establish a new international protection support service. International protection...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (8 Feb 2023)

Cathal Crowe: ...set up and it has also worked very well in the mid-west. In County Clare, about 3.5% of our county's population is Ukrainian, and that is not counting asylum seekers who have come here under the direct provision model. It is quite large and onerous. I do not want to lay any fault on the Minister's Department, given the situation has been well managed. Nevertheless, largely down to...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (8 Feb 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...is based on a not for profit approach. As part of this process Minister Roderic O'Gorman T.D., Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, published A White Paper to end Direct Provision and to Establish a new International Protection Support Service on 26 February 2021. This paper sets out a new approach for accommodating applicants that seek...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (8 Feb 2023)

Aindrias Moynihan: ..., Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the strategies in place within his Department in engaging and communicating with local communities on buildings identified for temporary and permanent direct provision and Ukrainian accommodations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6159/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: International Protection (1 Feb 2023)

Micheál Martin: ...following a request for assistance from Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth Affairs. This site is a Department of Defence landholding which was already in use  as a Direct Provision centre.   My Department is engaging closely with the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth Affairs regarding the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (1 Feb 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: 161. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of persons who have died while residing in direct provision centres in the State in each year since direct provision was introduced; and if he can provide details on the cause of death and age at death in each case, in tabular form. [5221/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (31 Jan 2023)

Pa Daly: .... To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on his Department's implementation of the measures specific to it contained within the White Paper on ending direct provision. [4312/23]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jan 2023)

Brian Stanley: ...of interest is expenditure on emergency departments. On 16 February, we will resume our engagement with the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth with a specific focus on direct provision expenditure, international protection and emergency accommodation. Members have billions there to get their teeth into, in case Deputy McAuliffe thinks we are dealing with...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jan 2023)

Sharon Keogan: ...decried as being uncaring, unsympathetic and even xenophobic. Over roughly the same period, from 2021 to 2023, the number of people living in international protection accommodation services, IPAS, direct provision accommodation has more than doubled from 7,000 to over 19,000. The vast majority of these applicants for international protection are from Georgia, north Africa and sub-Saharan...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Jan 2023)

...homes over the five-year period. At the end of this year, it is projected that 130 homes will be delivered under the plan. Longford County Council uses a number of delivery schemes, including the direct provision of units through the four-stage and single processes, turnkeys and approved housing bodies. In the fourth quarter of 2022, Longford County Council appointed a vacant homes...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Funding (24 Jan 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...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2023)

Brian Stanley: ...is expenditure on emergency departments. On 16 February, we will resume our engagement with the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, with a specific focus on direct provision expenditure, international protection and emergency accommodation. I also flag that we should also mention in the invitation the issue of the provision of modular units. On 23...