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- Social Welfare and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (31 Jan 2024)
Paul Murphy: ...up to how Ukrainians were treated with basic humanity. Sinn Féin and the Government are saying that we should level down to the level of inhumanity. Sinn Féin's position was for the scrapping of direct provision. It was opposed to direct provision, correctly, because it is an inhumane system. It is a profiteering, privatised system and we should treat people with respect....
- Social Welfare and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (31 Jan 2024)
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...accept it is the case. Sometimes, bald statements are made but I am not sure there is anything to substantiate this one. As I outlined, there are currently three tiers of provision. First is the direct provision system that has been in place for some 20 years, which has a certain amount of regulation although it is not anything like adequate. Second is the emergency accommodation that...
- Social Welfare and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (31 Jan 2024)
Paul Murphy: ...". Of course, the initial increase it recommended never happened and the €38.80 was not increased in line with the cost of living either. Since 2020, prices have risen by roughly 20%, so families in direct provision, who are already in extreme poverty and hardship, have faced a cut of 20%, or one fifth, in their income in real terms over the past four years. That has forced women...
- Social Welfare and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (31 Jan 2024)
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...into line with the wording of the temporary protection directive. This would place the State in a better position to be able to respond in a flexible way. These designated centres are new. We currently have a regulated, albeit flawed, direct provision system as well as the emergency accommodation created over the past two and a half years, and now we will have this system. Will any...