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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Beds Closures (19 Jun 2019)

Jack Chambers: It provides an important discharge facility for patients of the Mater hospital, Connolly Hospital, Beaumont Hospital and other hospitals across the city. It acts as a bridge between the acute hospital system and people returning home after a stroke, people with dementia or an acute intervention in the hospital system. It helps people who are well but who need that bridge to facilitate their...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Drugs Availability (19 Jun 2019)

Jack Chambers: 211. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a service is no longer being provided under the medical card scheme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25821/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Direct Provision and the International Protection Application Process: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)

Jack Chambers: I thank the officials for appearing before the committee. To follow up on one of Senator Conway's questions about emergency accommodation, what is the average and maximum time spent in such accommodation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Direct Provision and the International Protection Application Process: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)

Jack Chambers: Ms Buckley mentioned a figure of nine months. Would anyone have spent longer than that in emergency accommodation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Direct Provision and the International Protection Application Process: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)

Jack Chambers: Does Ms Buckley accept that the Department has one set of standards for direct provision centres and less governance control over emergency accommodation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Direct Provision and the International Protection Application Process: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)

Jack Chambers: The Department has an issue with increasing numbers in emergency accommodation for increasing periods of time. What governance arrangements is it developing to ensure it will develop standards for emergency accommodation in order that we will not have the scenario Senator Conway mentioned of people being shipped like cattle around the country to facilitate private providers? That is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Direct Provision and the International Protection Application Process: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)

Jack Chambers: The fact that it happened at all-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Direct Provision and the International Protection Application Process: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)

Jack Chambers: The fact that human beings who were already vulnerable-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Direct Provision and the International Protection Application Process: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)

Jack Chambers: -----were put in that scenario cannot be defended.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Direct Provision and the International Protection Application Process: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)

Jack Chambers: The point remains that it should have been a trigger to ensure the Department developed proper protocols and governance arrangements for emergency accommodation. Clearly, as Ms Buckley mentioned, people who have come here have been left at the behest of others who have shown total disregard and disrespect for their basic physiological needs and human rights. For anyone to be thrown around...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Direct Provision and the International Protection Application Process: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)

Jack Chambers: Has everyone in emergency accommodation been assessed by a general practitioner?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Direct Provision and the International Protection Application Process: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)

Jack Chambers: How is the right to an education being vindicated for children within emergency accommodation to meet their educational needs?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Direct Provision and the International Protection Application Process: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)

Jack Chambers: What would an ad hocarrangement involve for, say, a seven year old child in emergency accommodation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Direct Provision and the International Protection Application Process: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)

Jack Chambers: Is Ms Buckley satisfied that every child in a direct provision centre has access to education services?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Direct Provision and the International Protection Application Process: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)

Jack Chambers: Is there any circumstance where that is not the case?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Direct Provision and the International Protection Application Process: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)

Jack Chambers: Does the Department audit that? The suggestion is that the Department has no awareness. Does it audit that within direct provision centres? Is it only audited if the matter is brought to the attention of the Department? How does it assess the position?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Direct Provision and the International Protection Application Process: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)

Jack Chambers: Does Ms Baxter not think it would be better to have separate, independent oversight of that important right within our centres? The same applies to healthcare and HSE interventions. The officials have mentioned wraparound services. Is the Department satisfied with the level of healthcare provided within these centres?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Direct Provision and the International Protection Application Process: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)

Jack Chambers: How many direct provisions centres has the Department had to close based on serious difficulties around governance, management or oversight?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Direct Provision and the International Protection Application Process: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)

Jack Chambers: Has the Department formalised any concerns about other issues within direct provision centres that might necessitate closures in the future?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Direct Provision and the International Protection Application Process: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)

Jack Chambers: What are the issues involved in that regard?