Results 161-180 of 3,488 for "direct provision"

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (30 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: 612. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the current position in relation to the Programme for Government commitment to end the direct provision system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26005/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (30 May 2023) See 1 other result from this answer

James O'Connor: ...Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the Government will consider a vastly enhanced community funding programme to support communities hosting refugees and people in direct provision services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26376/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (30 May 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 632. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total number of direct provision centres currently available and inhabited throughout the country; the extent to which he and his Department continue to endeavour to meet the needs of those for whom such centres were provided initially; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26388/23]

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice (25 May 2023) See 3 other results from this debate

...an involvement in that. We do liaise very closely with our colleagues in the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth in regard to processing times, people who are in direct provision and all of that. There is an exchange of information but we do not have advance notice of where people are going.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (25 May 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 292. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE has developed and-or instituted a medium three-to-five-year-term recruitment plan aimed at increasing direct provision of home care support and to ensure the HSE has a minimum capacity in each CHO or RHA; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25540/23]

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó (Atógáil) - Order of Business (Resumed) (24 May 2023)

Martin Conway: ...dissemination of information from the Government to communities. It is not good enough for NGOs, council officials and local and national public representatives to become aware of the opening of a direct provision centre through the media. These are people, by and large, who want to help. NGOs, local authority officials and public representatives are there to help. I seek a debate on...

Seanad: Social Welfare (Child Benefit) Bill 2023: Second Stage (24 May 2023)

Eileen Flynn: ...Matters about the cost of a child having a disability. How do we support parents with one child or two children, or even three children, who have a disability? It would be wrong for me not to mention people living in direct provision. We should not have direct provision. Of course, I acknowledge and understand what is going on in Europe. We have seen people fleeing, as we have not...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Development of Local and Community Arts: Discussion (24 May 2023)

...have arrived in Ireland. Among them was Manar Al Shoulha from Syria, a really gifted painter who without our assistance would not have had access to a studio space and art materials while living in direct provision. Through our support, an exhibition featuring works she created in Ireland, showcasing the immense talent and resilience of migrants, attracted nearly 1,500 visitors to...

Accommodation Needs for New Arrivals: Statements (23 May 2023) See 8 other results from this debate

Joan Collins: ...to make profits at the expense of ordinary people being able to find homes, and an asylum-seeking process intended to scare people away from the country through the cruelty inflicted on people through direct provision. The Government cannot now turn around and say it does not know why its response is not working properly. The difficulties we are facing are because of the rotten...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 May 2023)

Sorca Clarke: ...services estimates a 10% to 15% increase in the number of arrivals over the next 18 months. The European directive for Ukrainian refugees may be in place for another two years. We have a broken direct provision service but what is also now rapidly emerging is an almost two-tier immigration system. In fairness, past and present governments failed to meet that deepening crisis on both...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 May 2023)

Leo Varadkar: -----international protection applicants would arrive every year. The world has changed since then, but it remains our policy that we want to move away from direct provision. The Minister is developing proposals for a dedicated migration agency and more State-run facilities; we have some already. The number of staff has increased by 250. There are 250 additional staff in the Department...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Direct Provision System (23 May 2023)

Holly Cairns: 478. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of each €1 per week increase in payments to international protection applicants living in direct provision accommodation, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24543/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (23 May 2023)

Peadar Tóibín: ...county in the State; the number of refugees and international protection applicants that are homeless, are accommodated in tents, accommodated in hotels, guesthouses and B&Bs, accommodated in direct provision, accommodated in modular homes, and accommodated in refurbished offices; and the number of refugees and international protection applicants accommodated in other accommodation...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2023)

Brian Stanley: ...put under huge pressure in respect of all of this. I have some questions around it. A total of 59,000 people sought accommodation and another group of international protection applicants are in direct provision. What is the term in direct provision as well? Have officials examined the option of buying some of these buildings? At the moment, there seems to be a huge scramble. I know...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2023)

...aftercare worker, an aftercare plan and respective supports, or as children who are international protection applicants and are possibly being referred from their residential care placement to direct provision, where they receive significantly diminished supports compared with availing of aftercare. That lacuna is a big problem. To have that visibility and guidance in the 1991 Act is...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: State Properties (16 May 2023)

Micheál Martin: ...refuge : - Kilbride Camp, Co. Wicklow, - Ballymullen Barracks, Kerry, - former Columb Barracks, Westmeath. In addition a DOD landholding at Knockalisheen Co Clare, which is currently in use as a Direct Provision centre, is also used to provide tented accommodation for persons seeking International Protection. Gormanston Training Centre, Co Meath was also used as an emergency...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (16 May 2023)

Norma Foley: ...are being provided in the current school year for over 5,200 children who have arrived to Ireland from Ukraine. The total cost of the scheme in 2022 was €338.9m. Applications for children resident in Direct Provision, who wish to avail of school transport must be made to Bus Éireann. Applications are made on behalf of these students by TUSLA to the relevant local Bus...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (16 May 2023)

Catherine Connolly: 595. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of vacant beds currently in all IPAS accommodation centres, including direct provision and emergency accommodation centres, broken down by county and type of centre, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23163/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)

Mr. Muiris O'Connor: It is a legitimate interest in the direct provision of a service to an individual. It is not any random-----

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (9 May 2023)

...from the Deputy or colleagues around the country on the accommodation either of the 3,000 children who are in homeless accommodation or homeless-type services or the almost 4,000 children who are in direct provision or International Protection Accommodation Services, IPAS, accommodation. Tusla does not have a role in respect of the inspection or regulation of those placements. There is a...