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- Services for those Seeking Protection in Ireland: Statements (30 Jan 2024)
Catherine Connolly: ...a few words on this matter. Background is always very helpful. When we talk about droves of people coming into the country, that is not accurate. We have a total of just under 26,000 people in direct provision. I hope I have a chance to come back to the inhuman, unacceptable direct provision we were supposed to finish a long time ago. Of those 26,000 people, a shocking number have...
- Services for those Seeking Protection in Ireland: Statements (30 Jan 2024)
Catherine Connolly: I would love to talk to the Minister about this but I only have a few minutes remaining. I appreciate his work but, unfortunately, he has not ended direct provision. This Government has presided over mixed messages with regard to our approach to asylum seekers in every possible way, creating a two-tier system and pitting communities against each other. It is all inconsistent. Not too...
- Services for those Seeking Protection in Ireland: Statements (30 Jan 2024)
Pádraig O'Sullivan: I do not know where to start. I have lived beside a direct provision centre in my home parish for the best part of 23 years. We have always been welcoming to migrants from all over the world, and who have settled well and integrated into our community. I would like to bring some balance to the debate. I have been listening upstairs, and listening to the latest speech from the Sinn...
- Services for those Seeking Protection in Ireland: Statements (30 Jan 2024)
Peadar Tóibín: ...and people who need to give help to people coming into the country has been very poor. People are ringing my office to see if they can get baby formula for their children. These are people who are living in direct provision locations. If the Government wants to fix this and gain the goodwill of the people, I ask it to first and foremost listen to the people in the communities of...
- Services for those Seeking Protection in Ireland: Statements (30 Jan 2024)
Holly Cairns: ...be able to handle this number. Of course, the war in Ukraine put pressure on the system but it has reached this point because the system was creaking at the seams from the get-go. In November 1999, direct provision was introduced by Fianna Fáil and it has been a stain on our country ever since. It is a continuation of Ireland's brutal history of institutionalisation. Under the...
- Services for those Seeking Protection in Ireland: Statements (30 Jan 2024)
Martin Kenny: ...a building being prepared and think that it may be perhaps turned into five, six or ten apartments and that their relative will get an apartment. They then discover the building is to be used for direct provision or for Ukrainian people to stay in, which is fine. We have no problem with that but the difficulty is that it causes a huge problem to those people who find the competition for...
- Services for those Seeking Protection in Ireland: Statements (30 Jan 2024)
John Brady: ...directive from the ordinary social protection system. A review of the equity and adequacy of payments to international protection applicants must also be conducted. Sinn Féin remains committed to phasing out direct provision. However, given the significant escalation of the numbers coming here, the priority in the short to medium term must be the provision of larger accommodation...