Results 101-120 of 143 for "direct provision" speaker:Trevor Ó Clochartaigh

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Sep 2012)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: ...on children's rights as a positive move forward in our efforts to protect the welfare of children in this country. However, I take this opportunity to draw Members' attention to the plight of the scores of children currently residing in the Lisbrook direct provision centre in Galway, all of whom are facing a very uncertain future. Residents of the centre were told two weeks ago that they...

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Feb 2017)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: ...in Ireland received newly published 60 page questionnaires, to be completed and returned to INIS within three weeks. It was 60 pages long, and there was a 30 page guidance booklet, ostensibly to help fill out the 60 page form. There is a shameful pall of stress and tension hanging over every direct provision reception centre at the moment, Mr. O'Kelly tells us. People try to find a...

Seanad: Directive of European Parliament on Sexual Abuse and Exploitation of Children: Statements (19 Sep 2013)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: ...that have not signed up to the directive. Denmark has not done so because it has gone further than the directive calls for. I note Senator Keane's comments about Portugal. Senator Conway and I recently visited its equivalent of direct provision in Lisbon. It is a much better model than the system we have. That is an issue to which I will return, but the Minister needs to take...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Direct Provision: Department of Social Protection (18 Nov 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: ...the local welfare office find in advance of someone taking up a lease that it would allow an increase on the rent supplement given the circumstances? Take for example someone who is moving out of direct provision and finds a suitable house in Galway, where there is an issue with rent limits. The rent for the house identified by the person is above the rent limit. Can he or she go to the...

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

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: I am doing so. The authors of the report claim that the sustained and prolonged restriction of human rights and civil liberties inherent in the direct provision system amount to child abuse. These are very serious allegations based on numerous complaints. The Ombudsman has said that the people who made those types of complaints, which have been catalogued by the Irish Refugee Council,...

Seanad: Criminal Law (Human Trafficking) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (24 Apr 2013)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: ...and a very low rate of prosecutions. The Government should use this opportunity to outline how it plans to improve victim identification with a view to improving the support to and protection of victims and to prepare witnesses for criminal prosecution. Yesterday, we saw a day of action on the issue of direct provision, and we had a meeting today of the Seanad ad hoc group on direct...

Seanad: Housing (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2013)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: ...support the Bill, I am compelled to use this short opportunity to highlight the broader failure of Government housing policy. For some years the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government, supported by two Governments, has been abandoning the direct provision of social housing by the State. In its place they have been pushing private sector solutions to the housing...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Mutual Assistance) (Amendment) Bill 2014: Second Stage (15 Oct 2014)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: ...budget decreasing from €22 million to €15 million. Is there a specific reason for it and how will it affect the equality and integration issues which we have raised with the Minister so often here? Most of my colleagues in the Seanad have supported the recent statements by the Minister of State, Deputy Ó Ríordáin, on direct provision. As the senior Minister...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Asylum Seeker Accommodation (14 Feb 2013)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit. Tá mé thar bheith buíoch gur tháinig sé isteach chun an cheist seo a phlé. The matter relates to the direct provision system and the accommodation provided through the Department of Justice and Equality for people seeking refugee status. Throughout the State, hotels, hostels, caravan parks and so on are used to house people in this position and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Role and Remit: Office of the Ombudsman for Children (11 Mar 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: ...;rsaí oideachais. An mbeadh sé in ann tuilleadh a rá linn faoi na cineálacha gearáin a thagann isteach? An bhfuil siad ar fad mar a chéile? An bhfuil go leor ceisteanna nó fadhbanna difriúla a thagann chun cinn? Tá mé thar a bheith sásta leis an ráiteas atá déanta ag an ombudsman faoin gcóiriú díreach,...

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

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: ...until the final determination of the protection claim. A protection applicant who has the right to access the labour market and is successful in finding employment, and who wishes to remain in Direct Provision, should be subject to a means test to determine an appropriate contribution to his/her accommodation and the other services provided to him/her. That is the recommendation. It...

Seanad: Regulation (EU) No. 603/2013 on the Establishment of Eurodac: Motion (3 Jul 2014)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: ...of asylum seekers. The Irish system involves adopting a guilty-until-proven-innocent approach to the consideration of asylum claims. Asylum seekers are stigmatised and our system makes them feel like criminals. Having spoken to people in direct provision asylum centres here, I note that they are very critical of the approach taken by the State, as are the NGOs that work with them. This...

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2016: Second and Subsequent Stages (15 Jul 2016)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: ...when the Government is coming around to Sinn Féin's position to provide voting rights for Irish citizens in the Six Counties and the diaspora, it is disappointing that this legislation ignores them completely. It would not have taken much extra work or imagination to include them in this plan. There is also the issue of those who are in direct provision or the asylum process. I...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Jul 2017)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: That system needs to be dismantled. It is very worrying that this new system is being compared to direct provision. This morning's presentation by Dr. Rory Hearne and Dr. Mary Murphy of Maynooth University on their report, Investing in the Right to a Home: Housing, HAPs and Hubs, was very important. Whenever we raise housing issues in this House we are told of certain initiatives brought...

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Mar 2013)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: ...extend an invitation to him this week. If he has time on his hands and is interested in improving his Irish, he will be welcome in Connemara any time. I support Senator van Turnhout's call on direct provision. I have visited some of the centres. This serious and complex issue has been raised a number of times on the Adjournment. The letter in today's edition of The Irish Times puts...

Seanad: Domestic Violence: Motion (8 May 2013)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: ...violence, with a target of at least 1 refuge place per 10,000 of population,and resources ring fenced to make progress towards that target; -- to take action to ensure that there are adequate safeguards in Direct Provision accommodation centres to ensure that any potential for domestic violence is minimised, and to ensure that the residents of such centres have reasonable and effective...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Direct Provision System (27 Jun 2017)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: ...a athcheapachán mar Aire. I congratulate the Minister on his reappointment as a Minister. I thank him for coming in to take this question, which arises out of the case of a Burmese man who spent eight years in direct provision before getting refugee status. He unanimously won his Supreme Court appeal over laws preventing him working in Ireland before his status was decided. The...

Seanad: Order of Business (23 May 2012)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: ...which has been long fingered and kicked into touch once more by him. I talked to people from the Galway Refugee Support Group and people in this country are living in desperate conditions while in direct provision. Some of them have waited up to ten years to get a case hearing and to resolve the issue. It is very important that we deal with these people. We would jump up and down if it...

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Nov 2017)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: ...; as sin. He is certainly a scholar, but I am not so sure that he is a saint, nor that he would want to be one. Certainly, this House has been very much enriched by his presence. We have had slight differences of opinion on matters such as direct provision but we have always been working towards the same goal. The Senator has always stood up for those who need somebody to stand up for...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (7 Oct 2014)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: ...House and take part in a fruitful debate. Anybody who would like to vote for her can still consider that. Senator Norris raised a serious issue relating to the potential visit of the President to a direct provision centre. Will the Leader seek clarification from the Minister for Justice and Equality as to why the President was not allowed to visit the Athlone centre and whether that...