Results 21-40 of 101 for "direct provision" speaker:Bríd Smith

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (Resumed) (8 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: ...allowance have been brought into the scheme's remit and the Department of Health and Social Care has already proved that over 110,000 of them cannot work. Is the Department concerned that people in direct provision will be brought into JobPath purely because they cannot get out of the direct provision centres and get work? Does it have any concerns about the direction this has taken?...

Health (Covid-19): Statements (Resumed) (23 Apr 2020)

Bríd Smith: ...people to an acute hospital setting does not seem right. Will the Minister be checking in every single case that the right decisions were made, in the right setting and with the right advice? I shall now turn to the next catastrophe we are facing. Direct provision centres are the next possible catastrophe. In a report released yesterday, the Ombudsman, Mr. Peter Tyndall, stated that...

Priority Questions: Direct Provision System (22 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: ...is very hard on the system of children living in what has been called "state-sanctioned poverty". The Tánaiste will be aware that there is an allowance of €19.10 a week for each adult in direct provision. That was set in 1999 and has not changed. According to my calculation of indexation for inflation, that allowance should be a meagre €27.50. Instead of looking...

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (30 Apr 2020)

Bríd Smith: ...settings, why is it not available in nursing homes? It seems to me that the statement about nobody being left behind does not tally with that fact. My second question to the Minister relates to direct provision, which we also discussed last week. I said at the time that I believed this could turn into our next catastrophe after nursing homes. We all saw on the news last night the...

Topical Issue Debate: Supreme Court Rulings (31 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: In his report, the retired judge, Mr. Justice McMahon, described those living in direct provision as dehumanised and depressed. He said these people were like ghosts. I am sure these people who are like ghosts celebrated when they heard the outcome of the Supreme Court. Can the Minister imagine sitting around, in many cases for five or six years but in some cases for ten, 11 or 12 years,...

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

Bríd Smith: That is fine. The point I want to make is that if it is not their job to query that advice, it is their job to look after the occupants of direct provision. I am of the view that those two things are contradictory. The Minister recently stated on radio that they are in his care and if anyone works for the Minister, surely their care should matter to those who look after them. On 12...

Priority Questions: Direct Provision System (22 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: 13. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will bring forth proposals to end the inhuman conditions attached to the direct provision model operating under her control; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17151/16]

Priority Questions: Direct Provision System (22 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: I hope they are not put in direct provision.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (28 Sep 2016)

Bríd Smith: 53. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her views on recent tragic incidents in a direct provision centre and if they are fit for purpose. [27375/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (15 Nov 2016)

Bríd Smith: 59. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the progress she has made in changing the direct provision system for asylum seekers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34738/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (16 Dec 2016)

Bríd Smith: 23. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to ensure that asylum seekers here will not face another Christmas in the direct provision system that has been described as a severe violation of human rights; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40438/16]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Direct Provision System (15 Feb 2017)

Bríd Smith: 93. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the Government's ongoing rationale for preventing persons in direct provision from working in gainful employment. [7734/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Refugee Data (16 Feb 2017)

Bríd Smith: 49. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of suicides of persons in direct provision and in the asylum application process that have taken place in the past five years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7642/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (30 Mar 2017)

Bríd Smith: 32. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to reform the direct provision system in view of the continued problems experienced by asylum applicants in this system; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15659/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Ancillary Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly Report: Department of Health and the HSE (30 Nov 2017)

Bríd Smith: Mr. Woods has stated the HSE provides language services for migrants. Does it provide other obstetric services for them in direct provision centres?

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Direct Provision System (9 Jul 2019)

Bríd Smith: 805. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated amount it would cost to introduce a weekly allowance for children living in direct provision in line with the rate for a qualified child including the higher rate for children over 12 years of age. [29758/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Child Benefit Eligibility (9 Jul 2019)

Bríd Smith: 807. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated amount it would cost to reinstate child benefit for children living in direct provision. [29760/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (20 May 2020)

Bríd Smith: 438. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number and causes of deaths in direct provision and emergency accommodation centres in 2019 and to date in 2020, in line with the recommendations of the 2020 report by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. [5896/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (20 May 2020)

Bríd Smith: 440. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of positive Covid-19 cases and clusters in direct provision centres; and the number of these occurring in new centres opened specifically as a response to the Covid-19 crisis. [5971/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (20 May 2020)

Bríd Smith: 441. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the safeguards and oversights in place to protect direct provision residents who are forced to self-isolate; and if dietary and other needs at a centre (details supplied) have been deemed as suitable for residents self-isolating. [5972/20]