Results 21-40 of 116 for "direct provision" speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett

Supporting Inclusion and Combating Racism in Ireland: Statements (17 Jun 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...finish school as distinct from 70% of settled females; and that Travellers are six times more likely to die from suicide than people from the settled community. Of course, there is the horrific system of direct provision, which segregates asylum seekers and refugees in inhumane and degrading conditions that no person would accept for his or her own family or loved ones but which we seem...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (16 Jun 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 398. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the direct provision centres here; the location, address and number of residents in each location by age and gender; the number of residents in each location who are victims of torture and trauma; the annual cost of each location by payments to the companies running the location and the different companies providing services;...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (9 Jun 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 258. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to end the direct provision system here in view of the recent events in the United States of America and increased awareness of the dangers of racism and discrimination; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10421/20]

Covid-19 (Taoiseach): Statements (4 Jun 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...Floyd lost his life and of which millions of Americans and millions more across the world are victims? Will he match his words against racism by eliminating the racist injustice that is the direct provision system? It is an inhumane and degrading system that marks people of colour out as different, other and separate and, consequently, leads to encouraging that poison and racism....

Health (Covid-19): Statements (23 Apr 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...that system. That must happen immediately and that commitment must be given immediately by the Government. There can be no return to people living in overcrowded homelessness facilities or to the direct provision status quo. That simply cannot happen. It was immoral before this crisis hit and it is now completely incompatible with the protection of public health. There can be no...

Health (Covid-19): Statements (2 Apr 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...and scientific evidence shows. That is why it is critical that the Dáil sits, whether remotely or in a different venue or whatever. It is essential because Deputies are being contacted by people in direct provision centres who are terrified because they cannot adhere to social distancing. Urgent action is needed. People in homeless hubs and hostels or in overcrowded family...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Asylum Seeker Employment (20 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...from the health service to special needs education, childcare and construction. I could go through a list. Despite this, thousands of people who are forced to live in fairly inhumane conditions in direct provision centres, many of them in isolated areas, want to work but cannot do so. This does not make sense for them or for society. Why should applicants be forced to wait nine months...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision Data (15 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 248. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons employed in direct provision centres by the companies operating same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41655/19]

Housing (Regulation of Approved Housing Bodies) Bill 2019: Second Stage (24 Sep 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...failure. I worry when I hear the Minister say he has great ambition for the approved housing body sector. That ambition seems to be growing at the expense of that for local authority housing - the direct provision of public housing by the Government and specifically the local authorities. I have heard some of the approved housing bodies indicate that they think the burden placed on...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (9 Jul 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 313. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the person or body responsible for inspecting direct provision centres; the regularity with which these inspections occur; the parameters for the inspections; if the reports have provoked action from his Department; if so, the details in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30029/19]

Mother and Baby Homes: Motion [Private Members] (15 May 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...was politically convenient to control society while not taking responsibility for the State's own policies. Amazingly, this still goes on in a number of areas in new forms. For example, there is direct provision and the continued control of the church over many aspects of health and education in this country. Even today, when we question Ministers about abuses, suffering, allegations,...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (8 May 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...able to. This is something on which they have given evidence on a number of occasions at various committees. While they play an important role, I worry that, in addition to the retreat from the direct provision of housing by local authorities which I perceive and the well discussed and debated over-reliance on the private sector, there is an over-reliance on the AHB sector, which does...

Educational Supports for Children Experiencing Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (3 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...this problem immediately. Otherwise, we will be guilty of the same sort of crimes that we now condemn such as the Magdalen laundries and the industrial schools and let us not forget the people in direct provision or children coming out of residential care who are homeless. The State is failing people in the most terrible way and we need to act quickly to resolve that.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Direct Provision Payments (12 Dec 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 252. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person who lives in a direct provision centre is entitled to a weekly payment for transport if attending a full-time or part-time course; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52330/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Financing of Social Housing: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...cost and viability of PPPs, or privatised forms of social housing delivery, being crazy from the point of view of trying to resolve the housing crisis. Instead, we need to move urgently towards the direct provision of public housing on public land. I am curious to know the delegates' opinions on what is happening in the private sector and its capacity to deliver. We have gone over how...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...fleeing from violence, and said it would promote the integration of migrants in this country. The deportation order for Shepherd Machaya is anything but compassionate. He has lived nine years in direct provision, a pretty awful system, but he made an effort to secure a FETAC level 5 qualification before going to DCU, where he completed his first year with flying colours, but now he is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (26 Sep 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...the markets. What do the witnesses think about that? Should we not move in the opposite direction? While HAPs might be a temporary necessity, over time we should wean ourselves off HAPs and see the direct provision of council housing increase and HAPs reduce. If we do not, apart from anything else it will cost us a lot. I ask that based on the DCC figures but it is a question for...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Priorities for Budget 2019: Discussion (19 Jun 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...I will make one last point on the social housing side of things. Do the witnesses agree that expenditure on the housing assistance payment, HAP, rent allowance payments and so on rather than the direct provision of public housing is very badly misplaced? Although the Government talks a great deal about-----

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (13 Jun 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...regeneration, by local authorities in 2017 and no affordable housing schemes, despite repeated commitments by the Government to do so; — the central pillar of any Government policy must prioritise a decisive shift towards the direct provision of public and affordable housing on public land rather than the current reliance on private sector solutions; and — notwithstanding...

Appointment of Members of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission: Motion (29 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...not being upheld; of Travellers, whom the State has systematically failed and continues to fail in many areas of equality and human rights; of the failure to secure the rights of refugees living in direct provision centres and of the completely unacceptable hardships imposed particularly on children in direct provision; and of the failure of the Government to deliver on its promise to take...