Results 1-20 of 3,585 for "direct provision"

Committee on Children and Equality: General Scheme of the Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (8 Jul 2025)

...in accessing the healthcare they need, as well as culturally competent healthcare. Migrant women also face considerable barriers in the housing area such as overcrowding and their experience of direct provision. They also face challenges in accessing services for domestic and sexual violence. There are significant challenges due to the lack of interpretation services, access to legal...

European Union Regulations on International and Temporary Protection: Motions (3 Jul 2025)

Michael Collins: ...to struggling parents. Meanwhile, we are spending billions on international protection and refugee accommodation. The figures released show that over €1.5 billion is being spent this year alone on accommodation services and direct provision for asylum seekers and refugees and that figure is rising every year without any democratic consent. Students are dropping out of college...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Detention Centres (3 Jul 2025)

Gary Gannon: ...timeline for establishing the national preventive mechanism; and to outline the barriers that remain to enabling independent, unannounced inspections across all places of detention, including Garda stations, direct provision centres, and Oberstown. [36739/25]

Nursing Homes: Motion [Private Members] (2 Jul 2025)

Ciarán Ahern: ...the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. As a State, we have institutionalised people as a default social care response. From the Magdalen laundries, to psychiatric institutions, to direct provision, to congregated care settings in nursing homes, again and again these systems, profit making and the lack of State regulation involved have been shown to cause serious...

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Office of the Ombudsman for Children (26 Jun 2025) See 3 other results from this debate

...nearly two thirds of the schools that travelled to our office came from outside Dublin. Last year we also delivered workshops directly through the Irish language to three gaelscoileanna and continued important outreach work in direct provision and accommodation centres, Oberstown Children’s Detention Campus, CAMHS inpatient units and community and voluntary centres throughout the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Key Challenges to Tackling Homelessness: Discussion (24 Jun 2025) See 4 other results from this debate

...idea of how many children are experiencing hidden homelessness. We also do not count every child who is in transitory accommodation, whether that is those in a domestic violence refuge or those in direct provision with status who cannot move out. We certainly need a more holistic understanding and much better data. We also need to know how many children are affected by homelessness. It...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Central Statistics Office (24 Jun 2025)

Mary Butler: ...dwellings to be included in the survey sample. This definition excludes people living in collective or institutional settings, such as: ·Emergency or long-term homeless accommodation ·Direct provision centres ·Nursing homes, hospitals, or prisons ·Traveller halting sites not classed as private households This methodological limitation means that...

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Children's Rights Alliance (19 Jun 2025)

Aidan Farrelly: ...around the country, have we any cause to be concerned about the rights of children living in residential care, whether that is in State-run residential care or children and young people living in direct provision or temporary accommodation? Would the alliance be confident that the rights of children are held as being of paramount importance when experiencing residential care?

Public Accounts Committee: 2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2023
Chapter 2 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Exceptional State Funding of the Peter McVerry Trust
Chapter 12 - Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund
Local Government Fund - Account 2023 (19 Jun 2025)

...of Utilities and local authorities. The framework for future delivery of water services provides the basis for Uisce Éireann to work with local authorities to complete the integration of public water services. Local authorities will cease involvement in the direct provision of water services from December 2026. The Government’s voted Exchequer investment in Uisce...

Nursing Homes and Care for Older Persons: Statements (12 Jun 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: ...of choice needs to be available to them. In terms of public care, it is sad that we are seeing, as in so many areas, a trend towards privatisation. We heard earlier about the trend in direct provision where instead of building State-run centres there has been a reliance on private facilities. Similarly, in this area we have so much reliance on private providers when this is...

Committee on Children and Equality: Priority Issues Facing the Department: Minister for Children, Disability and Equality (12 Jun 2025) See 1 other result from this debate

Aidan Farrelly: ...to it. I am concerned that it is not just a Department of justice issue, and that we could see collaboration and interdepartmental work on that to ensure that for the time children experience direct provision or emergency accommodation, those experiences are positive and fruitful and that their rights and their development are really prioritised in whatever the Minister can do in that...

Negotiations on an Agreement between the European Union and the Republic of Kazakhstan: Motion (11 Jun 2025) See 1 other result from this debate

Sinéad Gibney: ...is one question - but on the rights of people to claim asylum in this country? What about the thousands of people who we are not offering accommodation to, and the many people who are languishing in direct provision and staying in accommodation much longer than they should in conditions that provide no family privacy, and no ability or means to even cook their own food or practise their...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (10 Jun 2025)

Gerald Nash: ...is aware of the problems encountered by families with children with autism who have obtained citizenship and are currently being accommodated in hotels on an interim basis, having been required to leave direct provision centres; if his Department has provided any additional supports for families in such circumstances; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29004/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (27 May 2025)

Darragh O'Brien: ...Pobal on behalf of the Department of Rural and Community Development. Depending on the organisation involved, upcycled bicycles are made available for free or at a lower cost to various groups including those in direct provision or those outside employment. A review of this pilot is being undertaken this year with a view to ascertaining the impact of this Initiative. My Department...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (27 May 2025)

Mark Wall: 558. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide a breakdown of the number of support hours delivered by HSE direct provision, and authorisation scheme providers, by CHO, for the year to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27568/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (27 May 2025)

Mark Wall: 577. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a breakdown of the number of support hours delivered by HSE direct provision, and authorisation scheme providers, by CHO, for the year to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26739/25]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Funding (13 May 2025)

Dara Calleary: ...organisations working or seeking to work at local level to address issues in areas such as racism (including Travellers and Roma), domestic or sexual violence, migration, gender, people living in direct provision or seeking international protection, climate action and just transition. More information on the CDP can be found at:...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (7 May 2025) See 1 other result from this answer

Eoin Hayes: 601. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he intends to expand the SUSI grant system to returning immigrants, asylum seekers, migrants, those who are undocumented and those in direct provision and whether his Department knows what the cost would be for the residency criteria to be removed to enable that access; if he will share these costs; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Emergency Accommodation (29 Apr 2025)

James Browne: ...being granted international protection or other forms of permission to remain in the state has grown, local authorities have seen increasing presentations from households who have recently left Direct Provision accommodation. Arrangements have been put in place to support households in Direct Provision with status to exit to alternative accommodation; with a number of NGOs...