Results 21-40 of 63 for "direct provision" speaker:Catherine Murphy

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (3 Feb 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 474. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of new direct provision centres opened in 2019 and 2020. [5177/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (31 May 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 506. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of staff who have been assigned to the implementation of the white paper on ending direct provision from 2021 to date in tabular form. [27692/22]

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (28 Apr 2022)

Catherine Murphy: On the direct provision issue raised by Deputy Carthy, Ms McPhillips said she was not in a position to give us the information. Will she pass us a note on that afterwards? The committee cannot find itself falling through the cracks between two Departments. This would have been prior to-----

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (8 Sep 2020)

Catherine Murphy: 895. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if all outstanding direct provision centre inspection reports will be published on the website of her Department; if her attention has been drawn to instances in which reports dating back to 2018 remain unpublished; and the reason for same. [21125/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (24 Sep 2019)

Catherine Murphy: ...ánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he has consulted with the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government regarding accommodation needs of persons that cannot be facilitated in direct provision centres due to lack of accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38587/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Applications Data (18 Jun 2019)

Catherine Murphy: 262. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the location at which children (details supplied) applied for asylum in 2018, by county in tabular form; the number that reside in direct provision centres that have access to educational, learning and developmental opportunities; and the educational level to which they have access. [25285/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision Data (5 Jul 2018)

Catherine Murphy: 44. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons in direct provision who have had their asylum application granted but remain in the system; the reason these persons remain in the system; his plans to address the situation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29642/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (16 Jun 2020)

Catherine Murphy: 347. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason deaths in direct provision centres stopped being notified in 2017; if his Department is notified of such deaths; if so, if deaths have occurred since then; if so, the number and location of each; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10931/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (24 Sep 2019)

Catherine Murphy: 222. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of new direct provision centres planned for 2019 and 2020; the way in which the proposed new centres are selected and or the criteria for same; the way in which the centres will be staffed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38586/19]

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (19 Jun 2014)

Catherine Murphy: The Minister of State needs to set out, chapter and verse, whether the points system will still apply and whether people will be reinstated to a list in the same position. Is this a shift from direct provision to a system where the exclusive responsibility for social housing will delivered by the private sector through a market-led approach?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Direct Provision Centres (26 May 2020)

Catherine Murphy: ...in a situation where there is a Covid positive case in a hotel? Who was responsible for notifying the Department of Justice and Equality in this situation, where it was known that it was also a direct provision centre?

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (8 Sep 2020)

Catherine Murphy: 888. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will introduce a fair complaint procedure as an interim measure for persons living in direct provision in advance of phasing out the system; and her plans to introduce short-term changes to the system in view of the fact that Covid-19 has elevated the problems. [22059/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (17 Oct 2023)

Catherine Murphy: 458. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on HIQA inspections of direct provision centres; the number of inspections that have been undertaken to date; if he will provide a schedule for inspections over the coming months, and if the mandate of HIQA will be broadened to cover emergency accommodation centres. [44842/23]

Public Accounts Committee: HSE Financial Statements 2015 and 2016
Clarification of Matters Relating to Meeting of 2 February 2016 (15 Jun 2017)

Catherine Murphy: ...severing that relationship or changing service provider for those who currently get their services from St. John of God. Given that section 38 covers pension liabilities, would the HSE not look at direct provision of services as opposed to outsourcing them to the charitable sector?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024)

Catherine Murphy: -----even in a note afterwards, that would be appreciated. What happens in the case of a person who does not accept direct provision and does not receive any State assistance? Presumably, that is people who have family who are already here. Does that include the €38 for an adult? Do these people receive no support whatsoever? Does the Secretary General know the numbers involved?

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (24 Sep 2019)

Catherine Murphy: ...of service and accommodation aspects are put out to tender of if a preferred supplier list is used; the number of companies on the preferred supplier list in respect of services and goods related to direct provision; the frequency with which the lists are reviewed and or updated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38588/19]

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed) (11 May 2017)

Catherine Murphy: ...office does not take cases on. Was there a beefing up of the offices of the Ombudsman and the Ombudsman for Children to ensure that there would be sufficient capacity to deal with complaints from direct provision centres?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Oct 2022)

Catherine Murphy: However, there was an accommodation crisis when the programme for Government was put in place. There were then people in direct provision who had been through the process and this commitment was made even at that point so it is not the case that it was unknown. We knew there was going to be a challenge but has the external advisory group been informed? That is one of the key questions we...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Support Services (4 Dec 2012)

Catherine Murphy: ...relation to children residing here in extreme poverty who are asylum seekers or the children of asylum seekers; if his attention has been drawn to the challenges faced by children who are living in direct provision, many of whom lack the most basic of opportunities for education and development; the extent of his Department's function in seeking to alleviate these challenges; and if he...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Direct Provision Centres (26 May 2020)

Catherine Murphy: ...in writing to tell me what the line of communication is in a situation where there is a Covid positive case? Who has responsibility to notify the Department of Justice and Equality with regard to a direct provision centre? Perhaps that could be followed up with me in writing.