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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Direct Provision System (29 Feb 2024)

Direct Provision System

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

...Duggan: Yes. The main modelling we use is the CSO data on age profile and demographics and the indices we get from lots of different agencies, such as Pobal, on homeless poverty and children in direct provision. We are looking at lots of different factors. We are predicting an ongoing increase in the numbers being referred but what we had not expected, and this shows the complexity of...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Emergency Accommodation (29 Feb 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: In February 2021 A White Paper to End Direct Provision and establish a new International Protection Service was published. The paper set out a new approach for accommodating applicants that seek International Protection in Ireland and contains three core themes – accommodation, integration and supports. Since January 2022, more than 29,000 people have come to Ireland seeking...

Recent Arson Attacks: Statements (27 Feb 2024) See 5 other results from this debate

Catherine Connolly: ...in that sea. A total of 110 million people have been displaced worldwide, of whom 43.3 million are children, due to wars, conflict and climate change, and for many other reasons. Ireland's direct provision system was brought in in 2000 as a temporary measure. I sat on the Committee of Public Accounts and was never impressed with the Department of Justice officials coming before me at...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (27 Feb 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

John Brady: ...ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide a list of the properties for which his Department currently has lease arrangements for the provision of direct provision and other accommodation for international protection applicants; if he will provide a corresponding list of the service providers in each of these properties; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (27 Feb 2024)

Duncan Smith: 436. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the short and medium-term plans for Mosney direct provision centre; if there are any plans to transfer residents to other locations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8914/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (27 Feb 2024)

John Brady: 459. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of adults and children in direct provision centres, broken down by centre, in County Wicklow; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9291/24]

Seanad: Second Anniversary of Russian Invasion of Ukraine: Statements (22 Feb 2024)

Annie Hoey: ...just speak empty words at such a tipping point in this conflict. We need to maintain financial support, provide accommodation supports and improved conditions for those coming here, while working toward the abolition of direct provision for other refugees and people seeking asylum here. We have extended the hand of welcome to Ukrainian people coming here. I would like us to extend that...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Asylum Seekers (22 Feb 2024) See 2 other results from this answer

Peadar Tóibín: 260. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the nature of accommodation for asylum seekers, Ukrainians and residents in direct provision in Ireland in terms of previous usage, hospitality, nursing homes, State building and so on. [8509/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (22 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 264. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when his Department started to write to people with status or leave to remain in direct provision centres giving them dates by which they would have to leave the direct provision centre or be moved to another centre; the number of such letters issued to date; the criteria for issuing such letters; the rationale...

Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2022 (Section 4(2)) (Scheme Termination Date) Order 2024: Motion (21 Feb 2024) See 2 other results from this debate

Michael McNamara: ...being played between the Minister’s Department and that of the Minister, Deputy O’Brien - the Department of housing - with regard to who is ultimately going to house people when they come out of direct provision. That is a different conversation, which I look forward to having with the Minister during Topical Issues, when I hope I will finally get some information which I...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: EU Directives (20 Feb 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...Irish Government. Given it is highly likely that at the expiration of the directive they will either have to apply for visas or seek international protection and then be on the lower rate people in direct provision get, I do not think it is fair on anyone. It is not right in terms of the system and transparency nor is it right for people on those payments to be living in the dark. Given...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) See 4 other results from this debate

Catherine Murphy: -----even in a note afterwards, that would be appreciated. What happens in the case of a person who does not accept direct provision and does not receive any State assistance? Presumably, that is people who have family who are already here. Does that include the €38 for an adult? Do these people receive no support whatsoever? Does the Secretary General know the numbers involved?

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: An Garda Síochána (14 Feb 2024)

Helen McEntee: ...past few months. Other arrests have taken place related to vandalism at these properties. It is so important that people realise vandalism is not protesting. Somebody who believes that by breaking a window at a direct provision centre, they are merely making a point should realise that doing so is a criminal act. There are very serious penalties when it comes to arson. The maximum is...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Homeless Accommodation (13 Feb 2024)

Maurice Quinlivan: ..., family members or even your partner's parents to stay on their couch would be a dent to anyone’s pride and a blow to their confidence. These figures do not include people in domestic refuges or direct provision centres or those who are couch surfing. In Limerick, there were 344 people living in Department of housing emergency accommodation. These are people who have nowhere else...

Seanad: Social Welfare and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Second Stage (13 Feb 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Heather Humphreys: ...directive. As a result of these new arrangements, newly arrived beneficiaries of the directive who are living in designated accommodation centres will receive a new weekly payment of €38.80 in line with the daily expenses allowance paid to people in direct provision. This payment will be administered by the Department of Social Protection on behalf of the Department of Children,...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (13 Feb 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 535. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department plans to house applicants for international protection at a location (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6312/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (13 Feb 2024)

Brendan Griffin: 537. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if there are plans to use a facility in County Kerry (details supplied) for direct provision; if so, what are his Department's intentions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6352/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Needs of Persons with Dementia and the Services Available: Discussion (7 Feb 2024)

...fix this. The fact of the matter is that if the Government doubled the budget overnight, we could not staff it. We have pulled out of providing in-home respite in CHO 4 because historically the pattern there was direct provision by the HSE. As a result, the private providers operating in the area were reduced to operating on the margins and it was impossible to have, over time, a...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (7 Feb 2024)

Alan Dillon: 454. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for up-to-date figures on the number of people in County Mayo currently in the direct provision system; to list the type of accommodation international protection applicants are being housed in; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5453/24]