Results 61-80 of 134 for "direct provision" speaker:Trevor Ó Clochartaigh

Seanad: Immigration (Reform) (Regularisation of Residency Status) Bill 2016: Second Stage (29 Jun 2016)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: He has not said he will scrap direct provision though.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Direct Provision: Minister of State at the Department of Justice and Equality (1 Apr 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: ...ím leis. Tá sé ráite leis cheana go bhfuil sé ag gniomhú ar an gceist seo agus aontaím go hiomlán leis go bhfuil sé fíor-thábhachtach gníomhú ar an gceist. We could discuss many issues relating to direct provision, but we-----

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Apr 2013)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: ..., it would be apt and appropriate that a new Minister of State be appointed to make sure there is a full team working on all of the issues involved. I would also like to commend the Irish Refugee Council on its day of action on direct provision yesterday. I also note that Mrs. Justice Catherine McGuinness has echoed the sentiments of myself and other Senators that the direct provision...

Seanad: Criminal Law (Human Trafficking) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (23 May 2013)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: ...here and have serious special needs by way of disabilities, or mental or physical disorders? I think I have asked this question before. A number of people who are trafficked end up in the direct provision system. Is the Minister of State concerned with the system of direct provision as it is currently constituted? The system houses many of these victims and is dealing with people who...

Seanad: Direct Provision: Statements (4 Oct 2017)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: For the past six years, when Fianna Fáil has been asked to condemn the direct provision system, it has not done so. I would like to be constructive because we need to work together to get this system scrapped and I welcome the change in tone. An injustice has been done to Mr. Justice McMahon. The terms of reference for his report were limited. They precluded an examination to...

Seanad: National Vetting Bureau (Children and Vulnerable Persons) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2012)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: ...which is carried on by a person in relation to persons,and in particular children and other categories of vulnerable persons within the meaning of this part, who are currently accommodated in a direct provision accommodation centre.?.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 May 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: .... It was pointed out at the inaugural ISPCC lecture that 1,000 children live in emergency bed and breakfast accommodation in Dublin, which is unacceptable, while more than 1,400 children are in direct provision centres. They are certainly not equal in the eyes of the State. It would be appropriate for us in light of the concerns raised by HIQA yesterday and by other Members to have a...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Oct 2013)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: ...connected to Niall. His death is an awful tragedy. We had a very good debate last night, one of the best in which I have taken part in this Seanad, in which Members on all sides raised serious issues about the direct provision system. However, I was totally dismayed by the Minister's response to the debate. His prepared speech was a regurgitation of replies to Adjournment matters and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Office of the Ombudsman Reports: Mr. Peter Tyndall (30 Sep 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: ..., and I welcome the fact that Mr. Tyndall has stated the position regarding the prisoners, which is something the committee may support and has supported in the past. I welcome the comments on direct provision, which is an issue all members of this committee are passionate about. We will see a huge influx of refugees, particularly from the Syrian conflict, and a new system will be put...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Irish Presidency of EU: Discussion with Amnesty International (16 May 2013)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: ...'s recommendations on treating migrants and asylum seekers fairly. I contend that they are somewhat mild-mannered, to put it mildly. We are seriously lacking in Ireland, especially in the area of direct provision, in which I have a specific interest. We should opt in to the EU reception conditions directive. I gather we are the only EU state that has not done so, apart from Denmark,...

Seanad: International Protection Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (7 Dec 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: ...is a fundamental issue in regard to asylum internationally. It is a fundamental building block that needs to be put in place. The Minister of State has visited centres and he speaks to people in direct provision on a regular basis.One of the greatest frustrations of asylum seekers in direct provision is that they are not allowed to work. We have people from all kinds of backgrounds. I...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Jul 2017)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: ..., with a particular focus on the development and use of family hubs, absolutely alarming. For a member of Fianna Fáil to have the audacity to condemn IHREC, when it was Fianna Fáil that designed and implemented the direct provision system, a system of therapeutic incarceration, is quite astounding.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Jan 2016)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: ...of local authorities to provide adequate housing for Traveller children and their families; the failure to recognise Travellers as an ethnic minority and the continued holding of asylum-seeking children in direct provision centres, sometimes for their entire lives. There is also the issue that the Ombudsman cannot investigate issues relating to direct provision. Child poverty rates and...

Seanad: International Protection Bill 2015: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: I welcome what the Minister of State has just said and I equally welcome the statement he made on 23 July 2014, when he said that direct provision needs radical reform. I also agree with the statement he made in the Dáil when he described the system as inhumane and intolerable and said it was a system he refused to stand over in its current form. It certainly needs to be changed,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Direct Provision: Minister of State at the Department of Justice and Equality (1 Apr 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: ...Minister of State is aware of the large number of issues involved, but it is important that we put them on the record as having been raised with us. The sense that I get from most of the speeches on direct provision that I have heard from the Minister of State and his predecessor is that, if we sort out the length of time people stay in the system, the issues will be solved. After...

Seanad: Business of Seanad (12 Dec 2012)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: No. While I appreciate the Leader is allocating additional time, a number of quite complex amendments are to be discussed and I refer specifically to the areas of direct provision. I suggest that Report Stage might possibly be left to a different time to enable Members to try to get through all the Committee Stage amendments. This debate has been highly constructive and these proceedings...

Seanad: International Protection Bill 2015: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: ...legislation that will address it? Why not put it into this legislation to clear it up once and for all? It is both the place and the time to do it. Where do those children who are now living in direct provision - some of whom were born in that system - but who do not belong to a state, stand under this legislation? What is being done, in the spirit of the work done by the working...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Annual Report 2013: Office of the Ombudsman (4 Jun 2014)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: I hope that we will have some good news for Mr. Tyndall. His predecessor, Ms Emily O'Reilly, and some of those who held the office before her, raised the issue of direct provision, which is the method we use to house asylum seekers when they come to these shores. We have included the issue in our work programme and have indicated that we want to consider whether it can be included in the...

Seanad: Ombudsman (Amendment) Bill 2008: Committee Stage (4 Oct 2012)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: ...in the way she sought in her critique of the Bill in 2008. I contend that this is one of the areas that we most need to allow her to have jurisdiction over. I have raised the issue of the Lisbrook direct provision centre in Galway on a number of occasions in this House in the past two weeks, which was in danger of being closed. I also highlighted the Irish Refugee Council's recent...

Seanad: Racism in Ireland: Motion (4 Jun 2014)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: ...with people and groups from different cultural backgrounds, what strikes me most are the practical and current examples of racism in Ireland. Probably the most profound aspect of a very recent and moving presentation on direct provision in Galway related to the videos made by three teenagers in respect of their experiences of direct provision in the city. The teenagers in question...