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- Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2024)
Catherine Connolly: ...Dr. Catherine Day produced a report back in September 2020, which said there was an urgent need for a cross-government approach. The report pointed out, as earlier reports had also observed, that direct provision was inhuman and not fit for purpose. Some 24 years later, we are still left with it. Yes, of course, there were over 100,000 people fleeing from the war in Ukraine but that is...
- Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2024)
Matt Shanahan: ...used. Surely that information is available in Departments. Why has the Minister not been able to share that to date in the House? I am old enough to remember when the Green Party promised to end direct provision. At the time, good, thinking people felt it was blight on our national reputation. Now it has suddenly become our national saviour in this situation. It is a marked...
- Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2024)
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...is either part of the solution or part of the problem, and I do not think the Minister is part of the problem. I think he is part of the solution. He came into government with a fair-minded view of direct provision, namely, to get rid of it and to nationalise it, as it was, and not be dependent on the private sector. I applaud him for that vision, and I think that if it were not for the...
- Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2024)
Gary Gannon: ...Would he recoil as we accused their advocates of misinformation in presenting these scared people's fears of cold, disease, harassment or lack of nourishment in these isolated encampments of tents and tarpaulin? Direct provision will have been in existence for 25 years in 2025. Again, I will not personalise it but certainly throughout at least 15 of those years, I have walked alongside...
- Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2024)
Roderic O'Gorman: ...to meet their basic needs but my Department, the Minister of State, Deputy O'Brien, and I are working as hard as we can to address the situation. Three years ago, we set out the White Paper to end direct provision, a policy designed around 3,500 people seeking international protection each year. The landscape has changed radically since then, with an additional 100,000 people seeking...
- Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2024)
Catherine Murphy: ...still are - were bussed to Crooksling, the optics were that they were being hidden from international eyes for the St. Patrick’s Day festival. It is an appalling way to treat human beings. The direct provision system, which was to be phased out, is overwhelmed and cannot cope with the new intake of over 5,500 people who have been through the immigration system and have the right...
- Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2024)
Jennifer Whitmore: ...accommodation capacity had found about 500 extra beds; and — the Department also revealed there were about 2,500 "potential vacancies" among beds contracted for Ukrainians; further notes that: — in February 2021, the Government published a White Paper to End Direct Provision and to Establish a New International Protection Support Service, which was informed by the work of...