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Committee on Public Petitions: Ombudsman for Children's Annual Report 2021: Office of the Ombudsman for Children (15 Jun 2023)

...are important to them. The 2021 event was held in the RDS and seven young people took part. Topics on the day included living with scoliosis, equality, climate change, treating children with respect, mental health, gender issues in farming, fast fashion and living in direct provision. The 2022 event was held in the library here in Leinster House and had a theme of "If I were Taoiseach...

Committee on Public Petitions: Ombudsman for Children's Annual Report 2021: Office of the Ombudsman for Children (15 Jun 2023)

...vulnerable. When we conducted the child’s rights impact assessment on the impact of Covid, we picked children experiencing mental health difficulties, homeless children, children living in direct provision, children with disabilities and Traveller and Roma children. We wanted to see how the Covid lockdowns and restrictions had had a particularly negative impact on those children....

Committee on Public Petitions: Ombudsman for Children's Annual Report 2021: Office of the Ombudsman for Children (15 Jun 2023)

Martin Browne: Moving on to direct provision, I am looking at what the Office of the Ombudsman for Children's reports for 2021 and 2022 had to say about the addition of the children coming in from Ukraine. Could we touch on that for a minute, in terms of what kind of extra pressures that has put on, and where we stand with the White Paper on ending direct provision that was talked about?

Committee on Public Petitions: Ombudsman for Children's Annual Report 2021: Office of the Ombudsman for Children (15 Jun 2023)

Martin Browne: ...quickly to address some of those issues? I agree that people in all sectors of society can tell us about shortages and looking for workers. We have people in the country but are sticking them into direct provision centres, giving them €28 per week and telling them to stay there. At the same time, we keep talking about shortages in the workforce.

Committee on Public Petitions: Ombudsman for Children's Annual Report 2021: Office of the Ombudsman for Children (15 Jun 2023)

Dr. Niall Muldoon: We were against direct provision for many years and felt it was the wrong way to go. We thought it inappropriate. We have now stumbled upon a way of doing things that can work in respect of people coming into our country. It is something we need to look at more seriously. Whatever works positively for one group of people should also work for others. I was in Citywest...

Committee on Public Petitions: Ombudsman for Children's Annual Report 2021: Office of the Ombudsman for Children (15 Jun 2023)

...could be made quite quickly would be in the form of a payment similar to child benefit. That was promised but has not started yet. It would be of considerable benefit to the children living in direct provision.

Committee on Public Petitions: Ombudsman for Children's Annual Report 2021: Office of the Ombudsman for Children (15 Jun 2023)

Dr. Carmel Corrigan: I think that where it puts us on direct provision is in a very uncomfortable place as a State, which is where we should always be regarding direct provision anyway. However, we now know that since the arrival of the Ukrainian children, are a lot more children are living in direct provision accommodation and in emergency accommodation as well, and then perhaps...