Results 61-65 of 65 for "direct provision" speaker:Mick Wallace

Topical Issue Debate: Refugee Numbers (14 May 2015)

Mick Wallace: ...that regard. I welcome Ireland's decision to take in approximately 300 refugees; it is a small start. Given that they have been sanctioned by the UN as worthy of protection, will they go into direct provision or will be they given proper facilities to participate in Irish society and look for work? I know there is a second stage to this and there is an effort to redistribute many...

Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (10 Jun 2014)

Mick Wallace: ...in. If she had, she might never have seen her daughter again. That was not the 1960s, it was the 1980s. How do we treat our most vulnerable today? Are we proud of how we treat the 4,000 people in direct provision? Are we proud of how we export 4,000 young women each year to terminate pregnancies abroad? Are we proud of how we treated single mothers, those who find the strength to...

Direct Provision for Asylum Seekers: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Oct 2014)

Mick Wallace: ...rights. However, here at home we have the hypocrisy of the Government withholding legal rights for asylum-seeking immigrants and their children, many of whom are Irish-born. They are placed in direct provision facilities where a process which is supposed to take months can take years. According to the Irish Human Rights Commission, it takes between five and ten years in many cases. ...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2018 Second Stage: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Jan 2018)

Mick Wallace: ...of unsuitable temporary and emergency accommodation each month in Dublin, some suspect that emergency accommodation is becoming a long-term housing response. This draws an obvious parallel with the direct provision system which, as I said earlier, are nothing short of refugee camps. Some 18 years on, the Government is still pumping millions of euros every year into this temporary measure...

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

Mick Wallace: ...minors. We cannot go wrong with that. The Government will find Irish families that are prepared to taken them in. They will not be a burden on the State. They will not have to go through the difficult direct provision process, which I had planned on discussing but will not now. We are blessed in Ireland with opportunities. We are not afraid of bombs falling on us at night while we...