Results 61-65 of 65 for "direct provision" speaker:Gerry Adams

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (21 Oct 2014)

Gerry Adams: ...to these people and they are mostly young people. It is not their fault that they are where they are. I want to acquaint the Taoiseach with what I found to be an interesting experience. I visited the direct provision centre in Mosney. Some people have been there for ten years. It is a pitiful existence, no matter how attractive the accommodation may be or any of the rest of it. It...

Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Summits (28 Sep 2016)

Gerry Adams: ...slow in meeting its commitments to resettle Syrian migrants. Of the 4,000 Syrian refugees we committed to accept, fewer than 1,000 have been resettled. We also have the scandal of people being incarcerated in direct provision centres, which has been ongoing under successive Governments. The International Rescue Committee called on Ireland to accept 1,223 refugees per annum for the next...

Commission of Investigation Announcement on Tuam Mother and Baby Home: Statements (9 Mar 2017)

Gerry Adams: .... We continue to fail to protect women with crisis pregnancies while the Government continues to cut funding for rape crisis and family refuge centres. Some day, we may well have another inquiry into the treatment of people, including children, in direct provision centres, into the failure to provide proper resources or into protection of children with disabilities or mental health...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 Nov 2015)

Gerry Adams: ...have other information on the progress of the programme, such as the numbers anticipated, when they will arrive and the provision of accommodation and services for them? Given the way we treat people in direct provision centres and the way we treat members of the Traveller community, we must be sure we are not creating more difficulties for these people when they reach our shores. Did...

Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Meetings (25 May 2016)

Gerry Adams: ...human tragedy has been disgraceful. Given our history and our memory of coffin ships and of forced exile, the Government's response is shameful. It is much like the ongoing treatment of citizens in direct provision across the State. These men, women and children are fleeing devastating war and oppression to get asylum in the EU and yet, with smiles and handshakes, the EU has decided...