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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: State Properties (10 Oct 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: In February 2021 Minister Roderic O’Gorman T.D. Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth published A White Paper to end Direct Provision and Establish a New International Protection Support Service. The White Paper contained three core themes – accommodation, integration and supports. Since the lifting of the Covid-19 restrictions there has been a...

Finance (State Guarantees, International Financial Institution Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Second Stage (5 Oct 2023)

Catherine Connolly: ...system for refugees in Ireland. We treat one group from a particular country in one way, while we treat another group of asylum seekers in a completely different way. We have been keeping them in direct provision, which was supposed to be a temporary measure, for 23 years. Those are the reasons I have the most serious questions about this Bill.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2023.
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Supplementary). (4 Oct 2023)

John Brady: ...In some cases, albeit limited, they provide what I would class as substandard and overcrowded accommodation, and questionable food on top of that. In terms of the for profit model, in particular direct provision, the White Paper from 2021 referred to ending direct provision by the end of 2024. The Minister acknowledged that those targets will be difficult to meet. It was stated...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HIQA Report 2022: Discussion (4 Oct 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Martin Conway: I thank Mr. Egan. I want to ask the CEO a further question. HIQA now has inspection powers in respect of direct provision centres. Has it inspected any centres yet?

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by An Taoiseach (28 Sep 2023)

Eileen Flynn: ...issue of the two-tier refugee system. I understand international protection and people just seeking temporary protection, of course. In the programme for Government, the Taoiseach promised to end direct provision; that is nowhere in sight. It is a major issue and we see, even outside of these Houses, that some people are treated with little or no dignity or respect. Whether young or...

Eviction Ban Bill 2022: Motion (27 Sep 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...women and children in domestic violence refuges funded by Tusla and the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth. It does not include the 5,000 men, women and children trapped in direct provision who have their leave to remain but cannot get out because of the housing crisis and are essentially using it as emergency accommodation. It does not include the...

Seanad: Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) Bill 2022: Second Stage (26 Sep 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Paul Gavan: ...saw at first hand the threat to politicians and staff on the doorstep of this building and the importance of having Garda numbers to deal with potential threats like that. Of course, I would point out that residents in direct provision centres have been putting up with intimidation and threats of violence from these far right thugs for years. I have not seen the same level of concern...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Youth Services (13 Jul 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: In February 2021 my Department published the White Paper to End Direct Provision. The White Paper contained three core themes – accommodation, integration and supports. Since the lifting of the Covid-19 restrictions, more than 15,000 people have come to Ireland seeking International Protection. At the same time, more than 84,000 people have fled from Ukraine, the vast majority of...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (12 Jul 2023)

Gino Kenny: 205. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is aware of persons in direct provision who have leave to remain getting eviction notices when they cannot find a place to live, and persons are being forcibly removed from direct provision centres (details supplied). [34545/23]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2023: Discussion (12 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...issues. They cannot afford childcare but they could potentially be contributing by working and helping us to deal with the skills shortages. The same is true of asylum applicants. Are people going into the direct provision centres and finding out what skills residents have, what they want to do and so on? Is anyone trying to help them to get into the labour force rather than leaving...

Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jul 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...? Almost 12,700 people are officially classified as homeless. Of course, the Minister knows that the number is much higher, as this figure does not include women and children in Tusla's domestic violence refuges, people in homeless accommodation not funded by the State or the 5,000 people trapped in direct provision and unable to leave because of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael's housing...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Jul 2023)

Gino Kenny: Many people in direct provision centres have leave to remain. Some of them have of late received letters from international protection accommodation services, IPAS, telling them to leave the centre for a different part of the country. Some residents, particularly those in Clondalkin Towers, have important jobs and are being educated locally. It is extremely unfair to ask them to leave...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Exempted Development) (No. 4) Regulations 2023: Discussion
Planning and Development (Fees for Certain Applications) Regulations 2023: Discussion
Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. XX) Regulations 2023: Discussion (11 Jul 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is important to understand that the quality of the accommodation we are talking about is significantly below that of direct provision or standard homeless emergency accommodation, for example. I know that because I go in and out of a few of these facilities. In general, these are large rooms with multiple beds or bunk beds in large communal spaces with outdoor portaloos and limited...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (11 Jul 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 617. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when his Department started to write to people with status/leave to remain in Direct Provision centres giving them dates by which they would have to leave the direct provision centre or be moved to another centre; the number of such letters issued to date; the criteria for issuing such letters; the rationale...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (5 Jul 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Eoin Ó Broin: Ms Tracy Dube is a Zimbabwean international living in the Clondalkin Towers direct provision centre. She works as a part-time healthcare assistant in a nursing home and is studying social care full-time in Technological University Dublin, TUD. She received her leave to remain in October 2021 and was approved for homeless housing assistance payment, HAP, in October of last year. Since then,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Direct Provision System (4 Jul 2023) See 5 other results from this debate

Roderic O'Gorman: ...with the Local Government Management Agency, LGMA, and the County and City Management Association, CCMA, on the provision of this. That money is there. The Deputy is correct about what direct provision was meant to be and that we have ended up with the system still in place 21 years later. Many people are working hard to support the changes we are trying to make. Catherine Day is a...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (4 Jul 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 488. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when she was made aware that the 24-hour security presence at a location (details supplied) had ceased; if the cessation of security cover is a fundamental breach of the contract that the State has with the facility; if he has investigated allegations that the security staff who were on site may not have had...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Policies (29 Jun 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...the 2020 roundof Childminder Development Grants, totalling just over €190,000.The Report of the Advisory Group on DirectProvision was published jointly with the Department of Justice, and formeda key input to the White Paper to End Direct Provision that wassubsequently published in February 2021.In 2021:Budget 2022 saw the introduction of additionalfunding of €183 million...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Impact of Brexit on the Divergence of Rights and Best Practice on the Island of Ireland: Discussion (29 Jun 2023)

...The justice sector will have the Inspector of Prisons with an extended remit to go beyond prisons into all justice-related areas. The likelihood is that HIQA will be in charge of nursing homes and direct provision and the Mental Health Commission is likely to be in charge of institutions relating to mental health. There will be a number of mechanisms and then we will be the co-ordinating...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (28 Jun 2023)

Mick Barry: I understand that the European Council will again be discussing migration and there are some points on this subject I want to bring to the attention of the House. Some residents of the direct provision centre at the Kinsale Road in Cork have recently received correspondence from International Protection Accommodation Services, IPAS, stating that they are to be transferred to a disused Army...