Results 1-20 of 103 for "direct provision" speaker:Eoin Ó Broin

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision Payments (24 Mar 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 1080. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 164 of 25 October 2018, the way in which he plans to ensure that direct provision centres will provide period products to all residents who need them; and if he plans to amend the direct provision contracts for the products to be procured and distributed to direct...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payments Eligibility (26 Jul 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 1656. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will issue a circular to all local authorities in which there are direct provision centres recommending that the local authority provide homeless HAP payments to residents of direct provision who have secured their leave to remain but due to the housing crisis have been unable to source permanent accommodation and are...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (26 Jul 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 517. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will discuss with the Reception and Integration Agency, RIA, a protocol with providers of direct provision governing the provision of references for private sector landlords for those residents of direct provision who have secured their leave to remain and are trying to access private rented accommodation. [35843/17]

Emergency Homeless Accommodation and Direct Provision Independent Inspection Bill 2018: First Stage (19 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...(HIQA) the power to inspect all emergency homeless accommodation funded by the Department of Housing, Planning and Community and Local Government. The Act also grants HIQA the power to inspect direct provision centres funded by the Reception and Integration Agency (RIA) of the Department of Justice and Equality. There are over 10,000 people, including more than 4,000 children, in...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (8 Dec 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 90. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of direct provision centres that have invoiced his Department for the purchase of period products since March 2021; and if free period products are readily available at all direct provision centres. [60604/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (14 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 465. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the updated estimated cost, broken into current and capital, of ending direct provision, as per Chapter 10 of A White Paper to End Direct Provision and to Establish a New International Protection Support Service. [49885/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision Data (26 Jul 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 442. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons that have been granted some form of status including leave to remain in the years since the direct provision system commenced; and the number of persons that have been through the direct provision system since that system commenced. [34958/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (19 Oct 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 644. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of progress on establishing an independent inspectorate for direct provision centres; if the Health Act 2007 will be amended to extend the remit of HIQA to undertake independent inspections of direct provision centres; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50501/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Direct Provision System (26 Jul 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 1527. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will change the current social welfare payment arrangements applying to residents of direct provision who have secured their leave to remain and who are unable to access permanent accommodation and effectively using direct provision as a form of emergency accommodation; and if they will receive their full social...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision Data (21 Mar 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 216. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of families in a direct provision centre (details supplied) in Dublin 22 by size and number of children; the number with leave to remain; the reason for the recent transfer of 50 families from another centre; when the contract for the direct provision centre ends; and his plans for its renewal. [13052/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Issues (11 Oct 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 216. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department or agencies on his Department's behalf have been engaging with the owner or manager of a direct provision hostel (details supplied) for the purposes of that location being used at a future date for emergency accommodation, a family hub or other housing related accommodation; and if so, if this was carried...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (26 Jul 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 519. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide a list of all HIQA inspections of direct provision centres, in tabular form; details of when the inspections took place; if he will provide a copy or summary of the findings of such inspections; and if he will request a HIQA inspection of the towers direct provision centre in Clondalkin, Dublin 22. [35845/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (10 Nov 2021)

Eoin Ó Broin: 165. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will end the practice of forcing two or three adults to share small bedrooms in direct provision centres such as at a centre (details supplied); and if he has plans to end the forced overcrowding of single persons in direct provision centres, particularly in view of the current alarming rise in Covid-19...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (26 Jul 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will meet with the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government to agree the best way in which to assist those residents of direct provision who have secured their leave to remain but are unable to access permanent housing due to the housing crisis and are effectively using direct provision as a form of emergency...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (12 Mar 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 219. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the tendering process for direct provision services within 40 km of Newbridge, County Kildare, has concluded; if so, the details of the successful bidders; if not, when it will conclude; when the successful bidders will be announced; and the effect the outcome of the process will have for the future of a direct provision...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Legislative Measures (13 Jul 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 406. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when legislation that will enable the Health Information and Quality Authority to undertake inspections of direct provision centres will be before the Houses of the Oireachtas; if the Reception Conditions Directive 2013/33/EU is being considered in the process; if all direct provision centres will be covered...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Homeless Persons Data (19 Jan 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...shelters or step-down accommodation. They do not include non-Irish nationals in emergency accommodation funded by the new communities unit. Crucially, they do not include those families trapped in direct provision having got their stamp 4 status but who are unable to secure alternative accommodation. Tusla and the Department of Social Protection cannot currently give Members numbers...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Supplementary Welfare Allowance Eligibility (22 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 233. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide direction to ensure that emergency needs payments are readily considered to support those in direct provision centres to move on in view of the fact that homeless HAP is not available in most counties and therefore there is a no possibility for those leaving direct provision to access or save the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Direct Provision System (3 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 78. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the large number of persons who remain in direct provision following receipt of their stamp four visas and the threat of these persons and families being made homeless by the Reception and Integration Agency; if with his responsibility for homelessness policy he has raised this...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (26 Jul 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...;naiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will discuss with the Ministers for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government and Social Protection the funding arrangements for residents of direct provision centres who have secured their leave to remain but are unable to source permanent accommodation and are effectively using direct provision as a form of emergency...