Results 21-40 of 41 for "direct provision" speaker:Paul Murphy

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...? The problem is not just the language but the substance. Parents are rightly fearful this so-called interim measure will become permanent like so many other things in this State, for example, direct provision. They fear this is segregated education, without the opportunities for integration with other students, and are rightly concerned the Government is avoiding doing what it needs to...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (16 Jan 2018)

Paul Murphy: 552. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his views on whether the eviction of a person (details supplied) from their accommodation in Knocklasheen direct provision centre in November 2017 was the result of a fair process in view of the lack of notice, an ability to contest evidence and to appeal the decision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55199/17]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2019)

Paul Murphy: ...Broadly speaking, it agrees with the fortress Europe policy that has seen 10,000 migrants die in the Mediterranean since 2015. If the Tánaiste believes that Ireland should be a leader, we should shut down direct provision, as 6,000 people are in that direct provision using for-profit camps.

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

Paul Murphy: 324. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to unsanitary or unsafe conditions in the direct provision centre at a location (details supplied); if his officials or the international protection accommodation service, IPAS, will be instructed to arrange for an inspection of the building or to publish the findings of a recent inspection of...

Irish Nationality and Citizenship (Restoration of Birthright Citizenship) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (17 Jan 2019)

Paul Murphy: ...must answer to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child for the absence of a process for regularisation, various processes for which exist in other European countries. A point was also made about direct provision. I reiterate to the Minister that we should debate the question of direct provision again. He took offence at Deputy Barry's description of direct provision as...

Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)

Paul Murphy: ...decent people would expect refugees to be treated but treating people who are coming from other conflicts, such as in Syria, Iraq or Afghanistan, in a completely inhumane way, by putting people into direct provision, at best, and putting them onto the streets, where they are vulnerable to being attacked by people whipped up by the far right, at worst.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (15 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: One of the scandalous aspects of the direct provision system is how it has often left direct provision residents and asylum seekers at the mercy of management and those in management abusing their power against them. What measures are in place to stop this happening with regard to Ukrainian refugees who are staying in places that did not previously have refugees, for example, hotels? I...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Direct Provision System (30 Jul 2020)

Paul Murphy: .... It took a hunger strike for a welcome intervention to happen but it should not have. We need reassurance that nobody else will be placed in these situations as well as a wider reassurance that direct provision will be ended.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Asylum Seekers (29 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...in issuing temporary residence cards for international protection. Applicants are unable to get PPS numbers. They are unable to access schools and medical cards. This is without even speaking about direct provision. How is this moral? How can the Government stand over it? Surely this needs to be the end of the old system whereby we now treat all refugees in a decent and humane way.

International Protection Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2015)

Paul Murphy: ...asylum. This follows the unfortunate trend we are seeing throughout Europe. Decisions will now be made by the Minister who will have the power to decide who gets to stay. The Bill does nothing to address direct provision, the degrading dehumanising horrific situation in which people can live for years in what are akin to open prison camps where people survive on €19 a week...

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....

Redress for Women Resident in Certain Institutions Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jan 2015)

Paul Murphy: ...who has gone through these circumstances, and society as a whole, if the Taoiseach's promises are broken by not implementing those minimal recommendations? The point raised by Deputy Boyd Barrett about direct provision centres is a fair one in terms of the similarities that exist and the fact that there is ongoing national shame, and the message sent on this issue is also sent on others,...

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...

Covid-19 (Rural and Community Development): Statements (3 Jun 2020)

Paul Murphy: ...now. I have written to the Minister for Justice and Equality about it and ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development to raise it with him as well. I refer to the conditions inside the direct provision centre in the Central Hostel in Miltown Malbay, County Clare. A series of very worrying reports about conditions inside the centre were relayed to the Minister last week. These...

Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (17 Nov 2015)

Paul Murphy: .... I also wish to discuss the question of appropriate accommodation for refugees and asylum seekers. The Minister of State, Deputy Ó Ríordáin, quite eloquently has described the situation of direct provision as inhumane and intolerable. However, although he stated that well over a year ago, this inhumane and intolerable situation continues and remains. I have visited a...

Reception Conditions Directive: Motion (23 Jan 2018)

Paul Murphy: ...measure and that they are working on something else. The "something else" is still quite vague, as previous Deputies have referred to, and how limited it will be remains to be seen. The key point is that direct provision was originally supposed to be a short-term solution, and this stain on our society, this barbaric system, still exists today. People have to be given the right to...

European Council Meeting: Statements (7 Oct 2015)

Paul Murphy: ...down the fences, break down the racist borders, bring down the racist fortress that is Europe and fight for a decent life for everybody. In this State, that should involve immediately abolishing direct provision and giving people the right to work.

Irish Nationality and Citizenship (Restoration of Birthright Citizenship) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (17 Jan 2019)

Paul Murphy: ...outline the provisions of the Bill simply and briefly. I welcome those activists and those involved in the Migrant Rights Centre Ireland, including Tina, whose son is directly affected. Tina is a woman who lives in direct provision, whose son was born here, who is not entitled to the rights of those who were born to Irish parents because of the discrimination in the existing legislation....

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (26 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...second major point is the real concern that what is presented as an interim measure becomes permanent. We know of circumstances like that too often in this State. Many things still with us today - direct provision is perhaps one of the worst examples - were interim measures. There is also concern about the numbers included in the plan. It states there will be five schools with 24...

Proposal for a Council Decision on Hate Speech and Hate Crime: Motion (9 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...of Melilla, where a couple of thousand desperate refugees made it over the guard wire only to be mercilessly beaten by the Spanish police. Let us look at the Irish State's racist policies of direct provision, DP, and how people are treated in what are basically open prisons. There is a relationship between the two and it is utterly hypocritical not to see this. Turning to the two...