Results 61-65 of 65 for "direct provision" speaker:Catherine Murphy

Criminal Justice (Smuggling of Persons) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (4 Nov 2021)

Catherine Murphy: ...right to liberty and security, the right to asylum, the right to fair procedures and the right to an effective remedy. The State continues to fail in this regard. We need only look at the conditions in direct provision centres or the appalling standards on so many of our fishing trawlers to see just how severely we have failed these people. We saw a story on social media in the last few...

Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Nov 2021)

Catherine Murphy: ...by asylum seekers, human rights groups and several Members of the Oireachtas. The delay in affording driver licences to asylum seekers has caused more hardship than has been necessary. It has added to the hardship. Direct provision centres are often in isolated locations and not having the ability to drive has been an impediment to getting work, bringing children to school, socialising...

EU Migration and Refugee Crisis: Statements (28 Apr 2016)

Catherine Murphy: ...about such matters and take a lead on it. It is not acceptable to say that we can take migrants and refugees if we do not have in place the services that allow us to treat them with respect. Direct provision is not acceptable to most of us. Nor is the chaotic waiting times for the application and processing of asylum claims. We must maintain our humanity in all aspects of our response...

Supporting Inclusion and Combating Racism in Ireland: Statements (17 Jun 2020)

Catherine Murphy: ...our society equally. To do anything different is, quite bluntly, to perpetuate racism. Although it is very welcome that there is a commitment in the programme for Government to phasing out direct provision within the lifetime of the incoming Government, that does not mean we should not do things now or call things out. Several issues have come to the fore in recent weeks. I do not...

Health and Criminal Justice (Covid-19) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021: Second Stage (3 Dec 2021)

Catherine Murphy: ...violence, the isolation of older people in nursing homes and who are cocooning, the isolation of single people, the unsafe conditions for people in crowded and substandard accommodation like, for example, direct provision, and gardaí not being clear on - although this was much more at the beginning - what was guidance and what was law. I saw some of that myself. A fundamental...