Results 21-40 of 65 for "direct provision" speaker:Helen McEntee

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

Helen McEntee: ...by the HSE’s Health Protection Surveillance Centre, which can be found on its website www.hpsc.ie. That guidance exists precisely because it is recognised that congregated settings such as Direct Provision centres present specific challenges in this pandemic. During this time, centre managers have also been advised to increase the standard and frequency of cleaning throughout the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Seekers (6 Oct 2020)

Helen McEntee: ...published thereafter. It is the Government's intention to publish a White Paper by the end of this year, informed by the recommendations of the Expert Group, which will set out how a replacement to the Direct Provision system will be structured and the steps to achieving it. It will be a matter for my colleague, the Minister for Children, Disability, Equality and Integration, to progress...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (14 Jul 2020)

Helen McEntee: ...external stakeholders such as Ibec. It also involved a review of the submissions on labour market access made to the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice and Equality in connection with its report on Direct Provision and the International Protection Process published in December 2019. The review is currently being finalised by my Department and I expect to receive it shortly for...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (15 Sep 2020)

Helen McEntee: There are a number of avenues available to public representatives to raise matters with me or directly with officials of my Department in respect of direct provision accommodation centres. Public representatives can make representations on behalf of a person or a group by writing to my office by post or by e-mail or by telephone. Contact details are available on my...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (21 Apr 2021)

Helen McEntee: ...and as relevant to my Department’s areas of responsibility. This includes recommendations to improve application processing times, as outlined in the recently published White Paper on Ending Direct Provision and to Establish a new International Protection Service. The Programme Board is supported by an Implementation Working Group comprising senior officials from the relevant...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (14 Jul 2020)

Helen McEntee: ...as stated in the Programme for Government is to publish a White Paper by the end of this year, informed by the recommendations of the Expert Group, which will set out how a replacement to the Direct Provision system will be structured and the steps to achieving it. It will be a matter for my colleague, the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, to progress the matter following the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (10 Dec 2020)

Helen McEntee: ...Provision of Support including Accommodation to Persons in the International Protection Process to Government and published it thereafter. The report outlines recommendations to replace the Direct Provision system and proposals for process improvements in the International Protection system. A White Paper is due to be published by Minister O’Gorman shortly, informed by the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Aid (10 Mar 2021)

Helen McEntee: ...how processing and general supports to applicants in the International Protection process can be enhanced. They will be engaging with my Department to guide future funding considerations as set out in the recent White Paper to End Direct Provision and to establish a new International Protection Support Service. In Budget 2021, I provided an increased provision of over €2 million for...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (24 May 2022)

Helen McEntee: ...were held with nine ethnic and culturally diverse groups from within our communities, including the Laois African Support Group, the LGBTQ+ Sligo IT, the Father Peter McVerry Trust and the Ballinamore direct provision centre. We have formal correspondence seeking the views and input from Departments as well as local authorities, non-governmental agencies and community representatives as...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (21 Jul 2020)

Helen McEntee: ...as stated in the Programme for Government is to publish a White Paper by the end of this year, informed by the recommendations of the Expert Group, which will set out how a replacement to the Direct Provision system will be structured and the steps to achieving it. It will be a matter for the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, to progress the matter following the transfer of this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Policing Matters: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2023)

Helen McEntee: ...businesses and who said that gardaí were amazing and that they could not commend them enough. There were also separate gardaí who were responding to potential issues which might have arisen outside direct provision centres. Again, speaking to those who work with and support them, they said that gardaí were amazing. We had 500 or 600 people who decided that they wanted...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (30 Mar 2022)

Helen McEntee: ...to applicants in the international protection process can be further enhanced. They will be engaging with my Department to guide future funding considerations as set out in the White Paper to End Direct Provision and to establish a new International Protection Support Service. Funding of €47.197m has been allocated to the Legal Aid Board for 2022, an increase of 7.5% on the 2021...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (15 Sep 2020)

Helen McEntee: ...discloses their self-determined identity to IPAS, they are, in so far as is possible and practicable, assigned accommodation based on their needs. This determination may include the provision of shared accommodation with a partner who is also seeking accommodation or being accommodated within the Direct Provision system.  This would, of course, only...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Policing Matters: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2023)

Helen McEntee: ...said that was going to happen. That was an awful tragedy. I spoke to the Garda Commissioner throughout the day. They were concerned about the potential for trouble. There is a large number of direct provision centres and accommodation in the area. We had to make sure those people were protected. A huge amount of work was done. We should not focus only on what happened in the riots....

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Social Media Monitoring (10 Sep 2020)

Helen McEntee: ...officials followed “hashtags” and keywords that related to An Garda Síochána, prisons, family law, domestic violence, stillhere.ie, family courts, immigration, asylum and, as noted by the Deputy, direct provision. This work meant the Department was in a position to respond earlier to issues that were arising online, when most of its workforce was working remotely. ...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (15 Sep 2020)

Helen McEntee: ...of Children and Youth Affairs. The intention is to publish a White Paper by the end of this year, informed by the recommendations of the Expert Group led by Dr Catherine Day, which will set out how a replacement to the Direct Provision system will be structured and the steps to achieving it. This will be a matter for Minister O'Gorman to progress following the transfer of this...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (21 Apr 2021)

Helen McEntee: .... These letters are not recorded in such a way as to facilitate giving a total number of letters issued from the IPO in any given period of time. Not all applicants are accommodated in the direct provision system and the IPO does not differentiate between groups in this respect, therefore the number of letters that issued to applicants accommodated in direct provision is also not...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (8 Dec 2021)

Helen McEntee: ...the key recommendations in the Expert Advisory Group Report to reduce processing times of both first instance decisions and appeals to 6 months respectively, as outlined in the White Paper to End Direct Provision and Establish a New International Protection Support Service. An end-to-end review of relevant international protection processes by a multi-disciplinary team from my...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (31 Mar 2021)

Helen McEntee: ...the key recommendations in the Expert Advisory Group Report to reduce processing times of both first instance decisions and appeals to 6 months respectively, as outlined in the White Paper to End Direct Provision and Establish a New International Protection Support Service, which was recently published by my colleague, Minister O'Gorman. I have established a Programme Board in my...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Contracts (8 Sep 2020)

Helen McEntee: ...Sector. To do this my officials followed “hashtags” and keywords that related to An Garda Síochána, prisons, family law, domestic violence, stillhere.ie, family courts, immigration, asylum, and direct provision. This work meant the Department was in a position to respond earlier to issues that were arising online, when most of its workforce was working remotely....