Results 341-360 of 3,512 for "direct provision"

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Disability, Mental Health and Ageing: Engagement with Minister of State at the Department of Health (17 Nov 2022)

Mary Butler: ...for home care workers working in the HSE are better than some of the private providers, yet we are still challenged trying to recruit through the HSE. There are challenges there. We want to increase the direct provision of home support provided by the HSE. Nursing home care is an 80-20 split, with 80% private and 20% public. That is what we are doing to try to support workers. One...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Regulations: Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Nov 2022) See 1 other result from this debate

Eoin Ó Broin: ...the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth and IPAS with respect to providing emergency accommodation to people fleeing the war in Ukraine and the growing crisis in our direct provision and international protection system. It is a very considerable increase in the volume of work. People are working around the clock and it is right that we acknowledge that...

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022: Second Stage (16 Nov 2022)

Malcolm Noonan: ...will remain unchanged. These staff may continue to work in water services under the management and direction of Irish Water until 31 December 2026. Local authorities will no longer have any involvement in the direct provision of water services to the public beyond that date. Further opportunities for staff who do not seek to transfer to Irish Water will be identified during the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (15 Nov 2022)

Norma Foley: ...and 2016 national census data as represented by the Pobal HP Deprivation index. It also took 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. Enabling children with special...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (15 Nov 2022)

Johnny Mythen: 438. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of adults and children remaining in direct provision in each centre in County Wexford who have been granted leave to remain for the most recent date available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56531/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (15 Nov 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: ...charities involved in rescuing and rehoming animals, through the annual Animal Welfare Grant Programme. The Animal Welfare Grants Programme for animal welfare charities provides funding for the direct provision of care to animals, including veterinary fees, with additional funding available for education initiatives including awareness campaigns. This is the appropriate funding mechanism...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...started bawling and crying, just thinking about their situation. Sadly, such cases are repeated again and again. This week, another woman came to my clinic. She spent five years living in direct provision and now lives in a hostel with her young son who is very seriously traumatised. I could see that because he came in to my office with his mother. He was carrying a little bag which...

Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Second Stage (10 Nov 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: .... Fingal Communities Against Racism is a group of people doing what we can to help in our area. Sometimes, that means gathering up clothes and supplies to bring to people who are living in direct provision centres that are inhumane, which I think is the kindest way I can put it. Sometimes, it is about helping out with a language resource or some supports for new members of our...

Long Covid Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (9 Nov 2022)

Pa Daly: ...also draw attention to the acute hospital in Kerry, University Hospital Kerry, which is at breaking point. If we do not have confidence in the Government to deal with issues of health, housing and even direct provision, how can we have any confidence that it will deal with this issue properly? As for the hospital in Kerry, more damning information emerged recently. In July, August and...

Seanad: Housing for All: Statements (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022) See 1 other result from this debate

Fintan Warfield: ...children in emergency accommodation, funded by the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage. We think the real figure is closer to 16,000 when you take into account the 4,500 people in direct provision who have a legal right to stay in our country but who are trapped in direct provision. We must also include the number of rough sleepers and of women and children in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disadvantaged Status (8 Nov 2022)

Norma Foley: ...and the relative disadvantage within a given school. The DEIS identification model took into consideration the significant educational disadvantage experienced by Traveller and Roma learners and by students residing in direct provision or emergency homeless accommodation. Schools were not required to apply for inclusion in the DEIS programme and the model has been applied fairly and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disadvantaged Status (8 Nov 2022)

Norma Foley: ...and 2016 national census data as represented by the Pobal HP Deprivation index. It also took 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 Schools that were not...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disadvantaged Status (8 Nov 2022)

Norma Foley: ...and 2016 national census data as represented by the Pobal HP Deprivation index. It also took 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. Schools that were not...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disadvantaged Status (8 Nov 2022)

Norma Foley: ...2016 national census data as represented by the Pobal HP Deprivation index. It also 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 Schools that were not satisfied...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Ukraine War (8 Nov 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...current system of accommodation for International Protection applicants and replace it with a new model that is based on a not for profit approach. As part of this process, I 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: Departmental Properties (8 Nov 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...current system of accommodation for International Protection applicants and replace it with a new model that is based on a not for profit approach. As part of this process, I 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...

Seanad: Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Bill 2022: Second Stage (27 Oct 2022) See 2 other results from this debate

Mary Fitzpatrick: ...arrived in our country and at least 45,000 of them are in some form of emergency temporary accommodation; they are not in what they would consider to be their homes. In addition to that, between direct provision and international protection roughly another 10,000 people are in emergency accommodation. When anybody is watching this debate, they need to keep it in mind that we are talking...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Chapter 13 - Guardian Ad Litem Follow-up Report (27 Oct 2022) See 19 other results from this debate

Brian Stanley: ...matters: Appropriation Accounts 2021: Vote 40 - children, equality, disability, integration and youth. The Department has been advised that the committee has expressed a particular interest in direct provision, emergency accommodation, and related matters. Also for examination from the Comptroller and Auditor General's 2021 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services is chapter 13 -...

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

Norma Foley: ...2016 national census data as represented by the Pobal HP Deprivation index. It also 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. Schools that were not satisfied...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Ukraine War (27 Oct 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide a list of all properties which his Department currently has lease arrangements with 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. [54036/22]