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Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 May 2024)

Martin Conway: ...remain in this country. We need a strategy for people who have come here, who have sought refugee status and been granted it, and who are willing, able and want to work. Some of them cannot leave direct provision centres because they cannot find alternative accommodation. Some of them have no car to get to work. These people could make a huge contribution to our construction and...

Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 May 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: ...this island is aware of our history of institutionalising people considered inconvenient and undesirable, yet we seem to be continuing in the same way. The programme for Government included a commitment to end direct provision, for example, yet here we are four years later with no end in sight and no long-term plan. One of the first HIQA reports carried out in IPAS accommodation in...

European Union Migration and Asylum Pact: Motion [Private Members] (1 May 2024) See 2 other results from this debate

Violet-Anne Wynne: ...lead us through, and that has also had a detrimental effect. Accommodation for international protection applicants who are currently here is failing HIQA inspections, including the Knockalisheen direct provision centre where there are currently 52 men accommodated in tents. Because they are not on Mount Street, that story is not making it into the media. I know from a response to a...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Funding (30 Apr 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: ...wrong or has failed to take hold, in communities across the country, there are small stories of community integration where it is going right. I would point to my home town of Tramore. We have had direct provision in Tramore for well over 20 years. I have taught those kids. You look at the pictures of the county final and you see the evidence of positive integration within our...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Apr 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...view that the Government is not on top of issues relating to migration and that nobody competent is in charge. Scrambling around to turn hotels, bed and breakfast accommodation and office blocks into direct provision centres or having tents line the length of Mount Street in Dublin are not the hallmarks of a well-managed system. Ireland is a welcoming, compassionate country and there...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: European Year of Skills 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)

...mentioned the local authorities in particular, which is a really good example. It relates to other areas and another Department's area of responsibilities but that model has changed. The model of direct provision of those apprenticeships of what qualified tradesmen do has changed. As the Deputy will know, a lot of those services are contracted out, which means the level of employment in...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (30 Apr 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...made a commitment to replace the current system of accommodation and supports for International Protection (IP) applicants. As part of this process, the Government approved A White Paper to End Direct Provision and Establish a new International Protection Support Service in February 2021. The White Paper set out a new policy for the accommodation of IP applicants and ensures they are...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (30 Apr 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: ..., Disability, Integration and Youth his views on the recent HIQA report which found that the human rights of residents were not consistently promoted, respected or upheld at the Knockalisheen direct provision centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18771/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Properties (30 Apr 2024)

Catherine Murphy: .... To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide a list of the properties which his Department currently has lease arrangements for the provision of direct provision and other accommodation for those seeking international protections; if he will provide a corresponding list of the service providers in each of these properties; and if he...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...very problematic in Irish politics. We have had difficulty within the Department of Justice for a long time and I have been critical of this myself, having spent 18 months as a Minister of State. The direct provision system allowed people to languish in the system for ten years, with children growing up in the system and becoming institutionalised. There was a reluctance to allow people...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (25 Apr 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: ...of people do so. Neglect of or causing unnecessary suffering to animals is not acceptable in our society. I provide considerable funding to support animal welfare charity organisations in their direct provision of animal welfare supports where necessary. In December 2023, I announced the record allocation of €6 million in funding to 101 animal welfare charities throughout the...

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: The Future of Local Democracy: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Apr 2024)

...are usually better in quality, better value for money and more environmentally sustainable. Fórsa believes that it is time to bring power closer to the people by creating decent local employment through the direct provision of local authority services. It is time to reform Irish local government to reflect the European principle of subsidiarity. Local government can be an...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Development Plan (23 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...34 houses per year each. The capacity is not there, and it is not going to be provided by those small builders. How do we get young people, people who have come to this country and are now languishing in direct provision and people who have finished their apprenticeships but are leaving to go to Canada, Australia or wherever to go into construction? The State should go into the...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Ireland's International Obligations under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

...what she was doing was moving into listening to children in specific areas. She would listen perhaps to children who were in adult prisons at the time or children who might have been coming into direct provision. The young people felt they were not contributing anymore, so we closed down that youth advisory panel. I started my term in office without a youth advisory panel, but we felt...

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

...bit of background on the comprehensive accommodation strategy which effectively is the long-term strategy that answer the Cathaoirleach's question, it looks to build on the White Paper on ending direct provision and focus on very much the numbers the Cathaoirleach quoted - the €76 per head for private providers versus the €30 on State-run centres. We want to bring on stream...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Expenditure (18 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 274. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the amount spent on IPAS accommodation for each of the past ten years; the amount spent on direct provision for each of the past ten years; the amount spent on the provision of accommodation for Ukrainian citizens for each of the past three years; and the average cost of accommodation per night per person for...

EU Police Co-operation: Motion (10 Apr 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: ...no parents to look after them and they should have been given a safe foster place or a residential placement. This is part of the protocol. Indeed, it would be considered a scandal if those children ended up in direct provision centres on their own, never mind homeless on the streets without parents. This left them incredibly exposed to trafficking and exploitation. We then have the...

Ceapachán an Taoisigh agus Ainmniú Chomhaltaí an Rialtais - Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (9 Apr 2024)

Mattie McGrath: ...failures of Simon's government. The ongoing immigration crisis is a direct consequence of Government policy failures. The Minister for the environment's unfulfilled promises to provide proper accommodation and abolish direct provision have only worsened the situation. We are witnessing young people being forced to go abroad on a daily basis. That is not right and it is not good for...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (9 Apr 2024)

Michael McNamara: 1139. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of occupants at each direct provision centre in the State on 1 March 2024; the contracted capacity at each direct provision centre in the State on 1 March 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14716/24]