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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Direct Provision System (14 Dec 2016)

Katherine Zappone: As the Deputy is aware, the direct provision system is under the policy remit of my colleague the Tánaiste, the Minister for Justice and Equality. Children living in direct provision are not in the care of Tusla. Concerns about the welfare, safety or well-being of a child in direct provision are referred to Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, in line with Children First National...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Refugee Status (4 Feb 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ..., Integration and Youth the number of persons that applied for refugee status, subsidiary protection or humanitarian leave to remain for the first time in 2020 and were subsequently housed in direct provision; the number of persons that had their case processed to completion and left direct provision in 2020; the number in direct provision on 1 January 2020; the number in direct provision...

An tOrd Gnó (Atógáil) - Order of Business (Resumed) (13 Nov 2018)

John Brady: I am deeply concerned that rather than trying to dismantle the shameful direct provision system, the Government is seeking to expand it and open a direct provision centre in Wicklow town. It must be remembered that Fianna Fáil created and established the direct provision system. It was meant to be on a temporary basis for up to six months for people seeking international protection and...

Seanad: Asylum Support Services: Motion (23 Oct 2013) See 2 other results from this debate

Aideen Hayden: ...I have spoken on it on a number of occasions. We all take different perspectives and have different expertise to bring to bear on this. Senator van Turnhout has emphasised child protection in the direct provision system. I echo some of Senator Ó Clochartaigh's words on the right to a home. I have an entire speech that can go back over all the statistics on the number of people in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Direct Provision: Discussion (22 Oct 2014) See 2 other results from this debate

Mr. Greg Straton: Regarding the question about the number of people taking up direct provision, it is between 80% and 90%. I cannot remember exactly but not all asylum seekers take up direct provision as an option. That is a particular issue for some of our service users because if one does not take up direct provision, one will have access to a medical card, the €19.10 weekly...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (24 Jun 2014)

Gerald Nash: 469. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will review the system of direct provision; the number of persons who are accommodated in direct provision centres across the State; if she will provide figures in terms of the number of children, those aged under 18 years, who are subject to the direct provision system; if she will provide figures in terms of the number of young...

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Apr 2017)

Frances Black: Today, I wish to highlight an issue around direct provision. Our treatment of the thousands of people in direct provision throughout this country is nothing short of a scandal. A country coming to terms with the awful abuse inflicted on people in the mother and baby homes, the Magdalen laundries and other State and religious institutions is now sowing the seeds for future shame. The...

Written Answers — Asylum Support Services: Asylum Support Services (15 Mar 2012)

Alan Shatter: The Reception and Integration Agency (RIA) is responsible for the accommodation of asylum seekers in accordance with the Government policy of direct provision and dispersal. The person referred to in the details supplied is currently availing of direct provision accommodation as a single person at Kinsale Road accommodation centre in Cork. The details supplied state that this person's spouse...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: White Papers (25 Oct 2022)

Eileen Flynn: I thank the Minister for his honesty. We are looking for clarity and, most important, people living in direct provision are looking for clarity. We are discussing HIQA and integration, which are critical for people living in direct provision, but for people who have been living in direct provision centres for three to four years, or even ten years in the odd case, having a home after...

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Irish Compliance with International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights: Discussion (6 May 2014)

...of Law. I thank the committee for inviting me here and giving me the opportunity to discuss Ireland's obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the system of direct provision for asylum seekers in Ireland. The UN Human Rights Committee has made clear, in its general comment No. 15 on the rights of aliens and general comment No. 31 on the nature of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Asylum Support Services (20 Mar 2018)

Catherine Byrne: I have had no correspondence with either the Minister for Justice and Equality or the Reception and Integration Agency (RIA) regarding a proposed Direct Provision centre in Lisdoonvarna, County Clare. I understand that the HSE are actively engaged with the Department of Justice and Equality and RIA to provide the necessary health care resources and supports to those living in Direct...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Direct Provision Payments (22 Nov 2016)

Leo Varadkar: I propose to take Questions Nos. 66 and 98 together. A weekly direct provision allowance (DPA) is paid to asylum seekers who reside within the system of direct provision. DPA is administered by my Department’s Community Welfare Service (CWS) on an administrative basis on behalf of the Department of Justice and Equality at the weekly rate of €19.10 per adult and...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision Data (16 Sep 2016)

Frances Fitzgerald: According to the Department's database for managing such data, there were 4,248 persons residing in direct provision at the end of August 2016. The table outlines the duration of stay of these persons based on their latest date of entry into the direct provision system. (When a person makes an application for international protection, they are offered accommodation. While there is no...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Direct Provision System (21 Oct 2015)

James Reilly: As the Deputy is aware, Direct Provision is under the remit of my colleague, the Minister for Justice and Equality. Children living in Direct Provision are in the care of their parent(s). However, any concerns about the welfare, safety or well-being of a child in Direct Provision are reported to Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, in line with Children First guidelines. The needs of...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (4 Apr 2019)

Jonathan O'Brien: Some 14% of children living in direct provision are being referred whereas the corresponding figure for children not living in direct provision centres is 1.6%, so we can see there is a huge variation. With regard to the types of referrals and whether they would reach the threshold for an initial assessment to be done, in direct provision centres the figure stands at 85% and outside direct...

Written Answers — Asylum Support Services: Asylum Support Services (5 Jul 2007)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: The Reception and Integration Agency is responsible, inter alia, for the accommodation of asylum seekers through the policy of direct provision. The direct provision system seeks to ensure that the accommodation and ancillary services provided by the State meet the requirements of asylum seekers during the period in which their requests for asylum are being processed. Through direct...

Seanad: International Protection Bill 2015: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2015)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: This is the protection Bill. It deals with a large number of the recommendations set out in the report of the working group on direct provision. Direct provision has been a disaster for the families involved. It was a six-month solution that turned into a 12-year or 13-year solution. Nobody who is engaged in this process ever suggested that direct provision would be abolished. I never...

Committee on Public Petitions: Ombudsman for Children's Annual Report 2021: Office of the Ombudsman for Children (15 Jun 2023)

Dr. Carmel Corrigan: I think that where it puts us on direct provision is in a very uncomfortable place as a State, which is where we should always be regarding direct provision anyway. However, we now know that since the arrival of the Ukrainian children, are a lot more children are living in direct provision accommodation and in emergency accommodation as well, and then perhaps...

Written Answers — Asylum Support Services: Asylum Support Services (30 Jan 2008)

Martin Cullen: Direct Provision and all matters relating to supports for asylum seekers is the responsibility of the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform and of the Reception and Integration Agency (RIA) of that Department. Persons in Direct Provision are not regarded as being habitually resident in the state. A person who leaves Direct Provision while his/her asylum status is undecided is not...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Direct Provision System (14 Dec 2016)

Katherine Zappone: As the Deputy is aware, the direct provision system is under the policy remit of my colleague the Tánaiste, the Minister for Justice and Equality. Children living in direct provision are not in the care of Tusla, the Child and Family Agency. Concerns about the welfare, safety or well-being of a child in direct provision are referred to Tusla, in line with Children First National...