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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...

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]

Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2024) See 6 other results from this debate

Catherine Connolly: ...Dr. Catherine Day produced a report back in September 2020, which said there was an urgent need for a cross-government approach. The report pointed out, as earlier reports had also observed, that direct provision was inhuman and not fit for purpose. Some 24 years later, we are still left with it. Yes, of course, there were over 100,000 people fleeing from the war in Ukraine but that is...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (20 Mar 2024)

Alan Kelly: 839. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality how many unsuccessful applicants for protection under the International Protection Act 2015 were evicted from direct provision in each of the years 2021, 2022 and 2023. [12172/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (20 Mar 2024)

Catherine Connolly: 1079. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the capacity of each direct provision centre by county, to include the number of places available in each direct provision in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11568/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Asylum Seekers (20 Mar 2024)

Roderic O'Gorman: In February 2021 A White Paper to End Direct Provision and establish a new International Protection Service was published. The paper set out a new approach for accommodating applicants that seek International Protection in Ireland and contains three core themes – accommodation, integration and supports. There is a legal obligation on the state to meet the requirements under the EU...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (20 Mar 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: 1095. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of persons residing in the direct provision system currently who have been granted asylum in the State but are economically unable to leave the direct provision system. [11695/24]

Seanad: Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Mar 2024)

Rónán Mullen: ...The Minister has a clear formula to work on between now and Report Stage. I will make a second last point. We should think for a moment about a protest outside a migrant reception facility, as that was mentioned, where asylum seekers might be getting direct provision. We can all see clearly how such a protest should not be allowed once it is in any way directed at a person. That is...

International Women's Day: Statements (5 Mar 2024)

Catherine Connolly: ...on the importance of stability in a home, whether that is run by a mother or father, and we are putting a huge effort into the privatisation of childcare with public money. We have done this with direct provision and housing, and we are doing it with childcare. I would love, and I would work with the Government, to push out a public childcare system that fathers and mothers could use as...

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

Alan Kelly: 540. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will support the designation of the Racket Hall Hotel in Roscrea as a hotel for 'dual purpose' thereby supporting local businesses and tourism similar to the designation that he and the Government are now supporting for the D Hotel in Drogheda. [9978/24]

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

Cathal Crowe: 542. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a crime has been committed at the Knockalisheen Accommodation Centre, Meelick, County Clare (details suppled) which has led to a resident being moved to another facility; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10003/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

...long-term needs of the family. We see family breakdown and people leaving insecure arrangements, which is a very big feature. We have seen a small increase in the singles for people who have left direct provision and who may be going and staying in various arrangements for some time but who are finding it difficult to source their own tenancies. They are small numbers yet in terms of...

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

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