Results 41-60 of 101 for "direct provision" speaker:Bríd Smith

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (20 May 2020)

Bríd Smith: 712. To ask the Minister for Health if positive cases of Covid-19 were identified in a facility (details supplied) among residents in the direct provision system by the HSE; and if so, the date on which these were confirmed or suspected as Covid-19 cases. [5966/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (20 May 2020)

Bríd Smith: 714. To ask the Minister for Health the interventions made by the HSE and the HPSC in direct provision centres, specifically on-site visits or inspections of these sites by public health teams and staff. [5968/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (27 May 2020)

Bríd Smith: 1009. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason for stopping the Covid-19 pandemic unemployment payment to residents in direct provision centres who lost their jobs as a result of the crisis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8123/20]

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

Bríd Smith: 907. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps she will take to abolish the direct provision system; and her plans to replace same. [14776/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (6 Jul 2021)

Bríd Smith: 65. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he has read the recent report on deaths in direct provision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36225/21]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Direct Provision System (3 Dec 2021)

Bríd Smith: 12. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when he expects the last of the direct provision centres to close. [59476/21]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Direct Provision System (2 Jun 2022)

Bríd Smith: 2. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to recent media reports of further delays to his Department’s plans to abolish direct provision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28434/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (2 Jun 2022)

Bríd Smith: ...To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of asylum seekers that have been given own door accommodation since publication of the White Paper For Ending Direct Provision. [28429/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (9 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: 81. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he can clarify the position with regard to the programme for Government commitment to end the direct provision system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6072/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (28 Mar 2023)

Bríd Smith: 112. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has any plans to change the eligibility criteria for CE schemes to include persons in direct provision; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15164/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (30 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: 612. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the current position in relation to the Programme for Government commitment to end the direct provision system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26005/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Direct Provision System (17 Oct 2018)

Bríd Smith: I repeat what I said before: for every hungry belly, there is a pair of hands and a brain, which is quite obvious. The limiting of the right to work by the State for people in the direct provision system is quite shocking. Most of the parents want to work to be able to independently provide their children with accommodation that does not include a communal bathroom shared with grown men and...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Deportation Orders (25 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: ...Justice and Equality the process that sees persons with deportation orders who have been diagnosed with mental illnesses and life-threatening physical illnesses being evicted from and invited to leave direct provision centres and that are therefore at great risk of becoming homeless. [45206/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Socioeconomic Context: Dr. Caitriona Henchion and Mr. Niall Behan, Irish Family Planning Association (15 Nov 2017)

Bríd Smith: ...Daly and others teased out the issue of discrimination against women in terms of being able to access proper heath care. Can Dr. Henchion comment on the number of women with disabilities or in direct provision or asylum seekers whom she sees and whether they are further discriminated against and, if so, how?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (9 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: ...will die in the cold." This was when the Government announced it had no more accommodation for international protection applicants. On top of that are the 5,000 people who have the right to leave direct provision but are still stuck in it because they have nowhere to go. It is baffling the Minister's party in particular made it a point of principle in designing the programme for...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (23 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: 93. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will review the prices being charged in the shop in Mosney to persons in the direct provision system to determine if these are at a reasonable level compared to other shops; the reasons for differences; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24334/17]

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

Bríd Smith: The evidence shows everybody should be moved out of that direct provision centre and alternatives provided. That would be the solution to this horrendous mess and the inhumane conditions these people are being forced to live under, and God knows for how long more. None of us knows when this pandemic is going to subside or become a thing of history.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (2 Apr 2019)

Bríd Smith: 210. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to the practice of direct provision centres encouraging residents to volunteer to undertake duties which could be paid employment jobs; if such practices are widespread; if his Department is consulted by providers before such volunteering is organised; and if he will make a statement on the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Direct Provision System (2 Jun 2022)

Bríd Smith: Is the Minister aware - I am sure he is - of the recent media reports of further delays to the Department's plans to abolish the direct provision system? I ask him to make a statement on the matter. In his response, I ask the Minister to clarify, in respect of the answer he just gave to Deputy Daly, how many of the 37 centres are commercial and run for profit.

Covid-19 (Justice and Equality): Statements (13 May 2020)

Bríd Smith: ...health, and which up until this week had one cleaner with no public health experience cleaning 15 rooms in which Covid-19 infected people were living. Remcoll is not unique, because this system of direct provision is costing the State more than €70 million a year, a significant part of which goes to boost the profits of private companies. We are constantly getting information...