Results 21-40 of 103 for "direct provision" speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (29 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 571. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will consider allowing all persons in direct provision to work given the new refugee programme for those fleeing war in Ukraine; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14565/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Direct Provision Payments (12 Dec 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 252. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person who lives in a direct provision centre is entitled to a weekly payment for transport if attending a full-time or part-time course; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52330/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (24 Sep 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 11. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will consider closing the 34 direct provision centres in the State and putting an end to the institutionalisation that is having such a detrimental effect on the lives of asylum seekers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35426/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (9 Jun 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 258. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to end the direct provision system here in view of the recent events in the United States of America and increased awareness of the dangers of racism and discrimination; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10421/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (13 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 396. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to phase out the reliance on direct provision centres as a method of housing asylum seekers especially in view of the overcrowded conditions of centres increasing the likelihood of Covid-19 transmission; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29927/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision Data (6 May 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 258. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons in direct provision centres who have been granted leave to remain or have been issued with a stamp 4, but who have been unable to leave due to difficulties such as finding accommodation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17459/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Direct Provision: Department of Social Protection (18 Nov 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To simplify my question, what will happen, if let us say one is in a direct provision centre in Dún Laoghaire and then one tries to get rent allowance in Bray? Will one be told by the community welfare officer in Bray that because the person is not on the Wicklow list, he or she cannot get rent allowance?

Other Questions: Emergency Accommodation Provision (28 Jan 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...to report on the United Nations committee hearings on Ireland's record on children's rights and the new measures he is planning following the hearings, in particular in relation to children in direct provision and children in emergency homeless accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3201/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (9 Jul 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 313. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the person or body responsible for inspecting direct provision centres; the regularity with which these inspections occur; the parameters for the inspections; if the reports have provoked action from his Department; if so, the details in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30029/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Direct Provision System (8 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...Affairs his views on whether the model of accommodation for asylum seekers leads to a well-integrated society; if not, his plans for alternative models in view of the recent death by suicide in a direct provision centre in Carrickmacross, County Monaghan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22332/20]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Priorities for Budget 2019: Discussion (19 Jun 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...I will make one last point on the social housing side of things. Do the witnesses agree that expenditure on the housing assistance payment, HAP, rent allowance payments and so on rather than the direct provision of public housing is very badly misplaced? Although the Government talks a great deal about-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2012: Discussion (6 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...was exempted from the normal application of freedom of information in some way. Does Anti-Deportation Ireland want information to be fully available on the way in which contracts are given out to direct provision centres, and the rules for running them? That information is currently not available to the organisation but would be important to it.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Testing and Tracing (25 Jun 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...know who is contracting the disease? We have heard that young people are contracting the virus. Are they young people who were drinking cans on the banks of the canal or are they young people in direct provision? There is a big difference between those things and we need to know them in order to make informed decisions.

Written Answers — Social and Affordable Housing: Social and Affordable Housing (15 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...use of public funds, behind his new social housing policy and its focus on providing social housing through leasing and other arrangements with private landlords and bodies rather than through the direct provision of new local authority housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24235/11]

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: 398. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the direct provision centres here; the location, address and number of residents in each location by age and gender; the number of residents in each location who are victims of torture and trauma; the annual cost of each location by payments to the companies running the location and the different companies providing services;...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Current Housing Demand: Discussion (15 Apr 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...of social housing from the private rented sector through leasing arrangements and so on. That idea was nonsense. It has failed and clear statements must be made to the effect that we must return to direct provision of social housing via the representatives' organisations or the local authorities. How would the representatives respond to that?

Business of Dáil (6 Apr 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The remit of NAMA must be changed so that it can immediately bend all of its resources and energy towards the direct provision of council and affordable housing. This has to happen immediately and we must cease allowing NAMA to do things that are worsening that crisis. These issues have to be addressed as an absolute matter of urgency. They are of far more importance and interest to the...

Written Answers — Social and Affordable Housing: Social and Affordable Housing (28 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...Environment, Community and Local Government the number of social housing units that will be provided in 2012 and 2013 in each local authority; the manner in which they will be provided whether by direct provision of council houses, by leasing arrangements with private landlords or by discussions with the National Assets Management Agency; if he will provide details of any agreements...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Direct Provision: Department of Social Protection (18 Nov 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...to apply for rent assistance in a particular area. Given the chronic lack of affordable rental accommodation, that is a crazy situation. I would have thought it applied very much to people coming out of direct provision trying to find what is very difficult, namely, affordable rental accommodation that accepts rent allowance. It seems to me that we must have great flexibility at that...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee
Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018 (Resumed): Minister for Finance (27 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...in Rebuilding Ireland? At present, Rebuilding Ireland proposes 87,000 houses will be delivered out to 2020 through the housing assistance payment as opposed to 40,000 through various forms of direct provision. This is two thirds to one third, with two thirds being current expenditure going out, year in, year out. The Government has given a figure whereby if we hit the target,...