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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Youth Work Supports (5 Mar 2024)

John Brady: 601. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide the total capital funding allocation for youth work within each budget per year from 2009 to 2024, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10822/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Youth Work Supports (5 Mar 2024)

John Brady: 602. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide the total current funding allocation for youth work within each budget per year from 2009 to 2024, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10823/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Youth Work Supports (5 Mar 2024)

John Brady: 603. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the details of the €1 million allocated to the youth employability scheme in Budget 2024, such as when this funding will be available to services; how it will be allocated; what the review process of the pilot will entail ahead of Budget 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10824/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Youth Work Supports (5 Mar 2024)

John Brady: 604. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide the total allocation to each youth work funding scheme per year for the years 2014 to 2024, or from when the funding scheme was introduced if later than 2014, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10825/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Youth Work Supports (5 Mar 2024)

John Brady: 605. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 312 of 15 February 2024, the estimated cost of conducting a scoping exercise and workforce development plan for the youth work sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10826/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Youth Services (5 Mar 2024)

John Brady: 606. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for a progress report on the review of youth information centres; when this review will be completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10827/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Direct Provision System (29 Feb 2024)

John Brady: It is providing the basics of a tent.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Direct Provision System (29 Feb 2024)

John Brady: A tent to 1,000 asylum seekers?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Direct Provision System (29 Feb 2024)

John Brady: Not only is the Minister failing communities, he is also failing those who are coming to these shores seeking protection by providing non-human right-compliant accommodation, something he gave a commitment to end. I appreciate without a doubt that there have been challenges. However, when the war in Ukraine broke out, the Minister and his Government colleagues were saying we should expect...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Direct Provision System (29 Feb 2024)

John Brady: There is no efficient system.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Direct Provision System (29 Feb 2024)

John Brady: What about international protection applicants?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Direct Provision System (29 Feb 2024)

John Brady: The rules are not enforced.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Direct Provision System (29 Feb 2024)

John Brady: Rules are only as good as their enforcement.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Direct Provision System (29 Feb 2024)

John Brady: 96. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when he expects to publish the revised White Paper on ending direct provision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9686/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Direct Provision System (29 Feb 2024)

John Brady: We need a fair, efficient and enforced immigration system. On the Government's watch, it has failed on all three of those counts and probably no more so than with the failure to tackle the issue of direct provision in a policy that was laid out in 2020. There has been some chatter and commentary about a revision of the ending of direct relation. In November, it was said that a memorandum...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Direct Provision System (29 Feb 2024)

John Brady: I thank the Minister for that. Unfortunately, however, there is no clarity. Assurances were given as far back as November that an updated or revised memo on the White Paper would be produced and given to Cabinet within weeks of that. We are now in March and the Minister is failing to address the elephant in the room that is the war profiteering by many speculators right across the State....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Emergency Accommodation (29 Feb 2024)

John Brady: I thank the Minister for his reply. Unfortunately, he failed to answer the specific question. He stated that his Department met Fáilte Ireland regularly, but he did not address the serious issues facing communities across the State. For example, more than 100 Ukrainians have been placed in Carnew in my constituency of Wicklow, but there is only a part-time GP service with waiting...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Emergency Accommodation (29 Feb 2024)

John Brady: The approach taken by the Department and the Government has failed utterly and seems to be led by speculators making millions of euro from the process. It does not take into consideration the needs of communities on which additional pressures have been placed. Many Ministers have given false promises in this Chamber. For example, additional services were promised when Syrian refugees first...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Emergency Accommodation (29 Feb 2024)

John Brady: 79. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide details of what audits are being carried out in areas where his Department has taken the decision to place refugees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9685/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Emergency Accommodation (29 Feb 2024)

John Brady: Due to Government failure to ensure proper amenities and services are put in place, many communities right across the State are under huge pressure. What audits are carried out of community services and amenities by the Minister, his Department or other Departments before the placement of refugees or asylum seekers in a particular area?