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Committee on Public Petitions: Petition on Justice and Marine Safety: Discussion (22 Feb 2024)

John Brady: I will make a final comment. It all adds to the frustration. I have been dealing with this issue and I know Deputy Whitmore has too over recent years. I had hoped there would be a collective approach from the five TDs in Wicklow.

Committee on Public Petitions: Petition on Justice and Marine Safety: Discussion (22 Feb 2024)

John Brady: I initiated a process in the past year to try to pull together the five TDs to push this solution on the Government, given that we have two senior Ministers in the county. Unfortunately, only Deputy Whitmore came back to me and none of the other three even acknowledged my attempt to pull together the five TDs. I sense the frustration. The issue is being kicked to touch and being kicked...

Committee on Public Petitions: Petition on Justice and Marine Safety: Discussion (22 Feb 2024)

John Brady: Thank you, Acting Chair.

Committee on Public Petitions: Petition on Justice and Marine Safety: Discussion (22 Feb 2024)

John Brady: To follow up on that point, and Mr. Gaffney referred to this earlier, other serious issues have arisen in this State. The mica scandal impacted on thousands of people from Donegal right down the western seaboard and in other parts of the State. It was not any fault of any individual homeowner, and was completely outside of their responsibility. The Government devised a scheme - rightly so...

Committee on Public Petitions: Petition on Justice and Marine Safety: Discussion (22 Feb 2024)

John Brady: Europe has handed us a solution. We need to grab it and try to end this nightmare for Mr. Gaffney and his family. There is precedent. The Government just needs to find a way of utilising the offer put forward by the Commission.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Emergency Accommodation (29 Feb 2024)

John Brady: 79. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide details of what audits are being carried out in areas where his Department has taken the decision to place refugees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9685/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Emergency Accommodation (29 Feb 2024)

John Brady: Due to Government failure to ensure proper amenities and services are put in place, many communities right across the State are under huge pressure. What audits are carried out of community services and amenities by the Minister, his Department or other Departments before the placement of refugees or asylum seekers in a particular area?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Emergency Accommodation (29 Feb 2024)

John Brady: I thank the Minister for his reply. Unfortunately, he failed to answer the specific question. He stated that his Department met Fáilte Ireland regularly, but he did not address the serious issues facing communities across the State. For example, more than 100 Ukrainians have been placed in Carnew in my constituency of Wicklow, but there is only a part-time GP service with waiting...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Emergency Accommodation (29 Feb 2024)

John Brady: The approach taken by the Department and the Government has failed utterly and seems to be led by speculators making millions of euro from the process. It does not take into consideration the needs of communities on which additional pressures have been placed. Many Ministers have given false promises in this Chamber. For example, additional services were promised when Syrian refugees first...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Direct Provision System (29 Feb 2024)

John Brady: 96. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when he expects to publish the revised White Paper on ending direct provision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9686/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Direct Provision System (29 Feb 2024)

John Brady: We need a fair, efficient and enforced immigration system. On the Government's watch, it has failed on all three of those counts and probably no more so than with the failure to tackle the issue of direct provision in a policy that was laid out in 2020. There has been some chatter and commentary about a revision of the ending of direct relation. In November, it was said that a memorandum...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Direct Provision System (29 Feb 2024)

John Brady: I thank the Minister for that. Unfortunately, however, there is no clarity. Assurances were given as far back as November that an updated or revised memo on the White Paper would be produced and given to Cabinet within weeks of that. We are now in March and the Minister is failing to address the elephant in the room that is the war profiteering by many speculators right across the State....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Direct Provision System (29 Feb 2024)

John Brady: It is providing the basics of a tent.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Direct Provision System (29 Feb 2024)

John Brady: A tent to 1,000 asylum seekers?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Direct Provision System (29 Feb 2024)

John Brady: Not only is the Minister failing communities, he is also failing those who are coming to these shores seeking protection by providing non-human right-compliant accommodation, something he gave a commitment to end. I appreciate without a doubt that there have been challenges. However, when the war in Ukraine broke out, the Minister and his Government colleagues were saying we should expect...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Direct Provision System (29 Feb 2024)

John Brady: There is no efficient system.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Direct Provision System (29 Feb 2024)

John Brady: What about international protection applicants?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Direct Provision System (29 Feb 2024)

John Brady: The rules are not enforced.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Direct Provision System (29 Feb 2024)

John Brady: Rules are only as good as their enforcement.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Schemes (27 Feb 2024)

John Brady: 90. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if there are plans to review the energy credits for properties that were vacant or had low usage; if his attention has been drawn to the fact a lot of vulnerable people were unable to qualify for the energy credit after receiving an offer of social housing from their local authority as some local authority homes were...