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Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Refugee Accommodation Crisis: Engagement with Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (22 Nov 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...”. That, again, is a good summation. We are responding still to a crisis and very significant numbers of people arriving and we have not had that space. When I brought in the White Paper on ending direct provision, I was hoping we would have that opportunity to create that space in terms of our response to people seeking international protection and looking at new ways of...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Refugee Accommodation Crisis: Engagement with Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (22 Nov 2022)

Holly Cairns: ...tier system. The response for Ukrainians has shown it is possible to allow people fleeing violence to take up work immediately, to be issued with PPS numbers and that kind of thing. While those in direct provision are waiting months for the temporary residence certificate and have highly restrictive working permissions, will the changes be afforded to them now that we have seen it in...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Refugee Accommodation Crisis: Engagement with Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (22 Nov 2022)

Mark Ward: ...to be doing business with any elected representative. My community in Clondalkin is very generous and welcoming, much like the community in East Wall. In fact, when there were threats to close a direct provision centre in my area in Clondalkin, the local people rallied behind the residents in the direct provision centre because the people in that centre had become part of our...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Refugee Accommodation Crisis: Engagement with Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (22 Nov 2022)

Patrick Costello: ...real housing crisis that is being exploited as part of this, and we are never going to address the issues we are talking about here without addressing that. We are never going to address ending direct provision without addressing that, and I appreciate that the Minster understands that. He mentioned co-ordination among Departments, which is what I wanted to raise, but it is important that...