Results 21-40 of 40 for "direct provision" speaker:Louise O'Reilly

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

Louise O'Reilly: ...To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to the issues raised in correspondence by a group (details supplied) regarding health and safety risks in a direct provision centre in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11108/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Orthodontic Services (17 May 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: 861. To ask the Minister for Health the funding for the Health Service Executive orthodontic service in each of the years 2006 to 2016 to date, in tabular form; the cost of extending the direct provision of orthodontic treatment to children with less severe needs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10359/16]

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

Louise O'Reilly: 364. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the outcome of contacts by his Department with asylum seekers living in direct provision centres regarding the opportunities available to them to assist in the effort against Covid-19; the number recruited to the health service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11169/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Orthodontic Services Data (12 Jun 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: ...the Minister for Health the funding for the Health Service Executive orthodontic service in each of the years 2006 to 2017 and to date in 2018, in tabular form; the estimated cost of extending the direct provision of orthodontic treatment to children with less severe needs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25445/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (16 Jun 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: 522. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the testing programme for residents in direct provision in tabular form; the number of centres that have been tested; the number of persons who have been tested; if a plan for the remaining tests to be completed is in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10454/20]

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (7 May 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: ...call and I accept that it may be practised in some instances now, but I do not believe it was practised at the time, and that is an issue that needs to be examined. The next issue I want to raise concerns direct provision. I thank members of the Fingal Communities Against Racism for the good work it continues to do with our neighbours in Balseskin. Yesterday, when I asked the HSE how...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (1 Jul 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: 429. To ask the Minister for Health when residents of direct provision centres will receive their Covid-19 vaccine given that their need is particular acute due to rules prohibiting re-entry to centres after a resident has spent a night away means that residents are subject to 14-days quarantine; if his attention has been drawn to the difficulties this is causing; and if he will make a...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response Final Report: Motion (19 Nov 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: ...next phase, one of which is the restarting of non-Covid care. We can all agree that Covid-19 exposed many of the challenges and deficiencies in the health system. I will touch on three issues - direct provision, waiting lists and, briefly, the issue of image-based abuse. Potentially hundreds of women and girls have been impacted by the leaking and sharing of images of them online...

An Bille um Bearta Éigeandála ar mhaithe le Leas an Phobail (Covid-19), 2020: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Mar 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: We will support amendments Nos. 42 to 47, inclusive, because we have all been contacted by people who are existing in direct provision and they want to play their part. A call has gone out that everyone who can play their part should play their part and we have people who are here living in appalling and shameful circumstances who are putting up their hands. If their qualifications are...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (27 Sep 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: 88. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the action being taken by her Department to ensure that recommendations of the 2015 report on improvements to the direct provision system are implemented; the reason the progress report at part 5.100 lists the recommendation as being implemented by the HSE despite the absence of new protocols and enhanced services; the engagement her Department...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Direct Provision System (27 Sep 2016)

Louise O'Reilly: 541. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the action being taken by his Department to ensure that recommendations of the 2015 report on improvements to the direct provision system are implemented in respect of those falling under the remit of the HSE; the reason the progress report at part 5.100 lists the recommendation as being implemented by the HSE despite the absence of new protocols...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: -----but we will not argue that here. I urge the Deputy who proposed the amendment to consider the case of pregnant rape victims who live in direct provision, and tease out the potential consequences and hurt caused. The majority of people have spoken, we know the results of the referendum and there is going to be legislation. It is open to us to ensure that the services are available to a...

Accommodation Needs for New Arrivals: Statements (23 May 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: ...and neglect by successive Governments are among those most severely impacted by the housing and accommodation crisis. The housing crisis is the reason thousands of people are trapped in the hell of direct provision when they could and should be able to move on. Direct provision was a temporary solution that has endured for decades. When the Government proposes another temporary...

Covid-19 (Health) - Statements (14 May 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: ...there is not another backlog and we do not end up back where we were. Will the Minister comment, if he can, on the letter that was issued by the local department of public health to residents in direct provision in the Skellig Star Hotel in Kerry? These residents are unable to follow social distancing requirements because they are all squashed in together and it is physically...

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: ...we think it will be difficult. We have outlined the fact that barriers to access will not be helpful. There are women in particular circumstances, and I have mentioned domestic violence, women in direct provision and women who live in the North, and I hope we will come away from this evening with some sort of understanding as to how they will be able safely to access the service. I...

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: ...to make multiple journeys, it represents a significant barrier. For a woman subject to domestic violence, it will be a barrier that will effectively render this legislation useless. A woman in direct provision might not be able to get out. These are serious considerations. I reiterate my statement on Committee Stage that the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the...

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Second Stage (4 Oct 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: ...decision such as this lightly and this measure will restrict access in general, but it will also restrict access for marginalised groups, women in abusive relationships, those with a disability and those in direct provision accommodation, among others. It will also affect women in regional, less populated areas, where they may not want to attend their local GP, who will have to travel to...

Covid-19: Reframing the Challenge, Continuing our Recovery and Reconnecting: Statements (21 Oct 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: ...he was Minister for Health or, indeed, when he was Taoiseach. The list goes on. In the few minutes remaining to me, I want to raise with the Minister the case of Mr. Nadim Hussain, a man who is on hunger strike in a direct provision centre. This young man is scheduled to be deported. I will not get into the rights and wrongs of this case, but I want to say that in the midst of a...

Statute of Limitations (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (11 Dec 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: ...of these parallels. Day after day we come in here and talk about scandals of the past. We all nod our heads and say: "We are absolutely certain that it will not happen again." We talk about the Magdalen laundries yet we have direct provision. Now we are talking about a historical injustice but actually the same injustice is being perpetuated. The regulators knew about the risk with...

Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Second Stage (10 Nov 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: .... Fingal Communities Against Racism is a group of people doing what we can to help in our area. Sometimes, that means gathering up clothes and supplies to bring to people who are living in direct provision centres that are inhumane, which I think is the kindest way I can put it. Sometimes, it is about helping out with a language resource or some supports for new members of our...