Results 1-15 of 15 for "direct provision" speaker:Pearse Doherty

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Sep 2020)

Pearse Doherty: ...should be tested and prioritised but, as the Minister, Deputy Donnelly, outlined in the Dáil yesterday, almost 70,000 tests were completed last week as serial testing continues in nursing homes, direct provision centres and meat processing plants. That means there should be a capacity for nearly 30,000 tests to be carried out in any given week. Why was the decision taken to cancel...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: State Response to Recent Spike in Covid-19 Cases (Resumed) (26 Aug 2020)

Pearse Doherty: ...a video on social media in which he outlined where the majority of the 1,200 cases that had emerged over the previous 14 days were from. He identified that 360 came from meat plants, 90 from direct provision centres, 40 were linked to construction, 200 to community transmission, 200 were under investigation and 3% were travel related. How many of those cases were attributed to sporting...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: State Response to Recent Spike in Covid-19 Cases (Resumed) (26 Aug 2020)

Pearse Doherty: ...which the decision was taken, is there evidence to suggest a concern in that area? I say that because what frustrated many people, as Dr. Glynn stated, was that 500 of the 1,200 cases emerged from direct provision centres and meat plants, yet all sports spectators were banned from attending matches. Can Dr. Glynn confirm the guidance from Sport Ireland which stated that parents and-or...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2019)

Pearse Doherty: ...picture. They do not include the women and children living in domestic violence shelters funded by Tusla, adults and children living in hostels that are not funded by Departments, and those still living in direct provision despite having secured their leave to remain. This is the republic that the Tánaiste and the Government is building. The Government is failing parents and...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision Payments (12 Mar 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 199. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when an agreement with a company (details supplied) was signed to provide a direct provision centre at a hotel for an initial 12 months; if the agreement commenced on that date; if the company has received payment from that date for supplying a direct provision centre at the hotel; and the value of payments made to date....

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (12 Mar 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 200. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a letter was issued to confirm that a hotel (details supplied) met all the health and safety requirements to be used as a direct provision centre prior to the signing of an agreement; if the terms of the agreement relating to the proposed direct provision centre at the hotel commenced on the date the agreement was signed;...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Direct Provision System (4 Dec 2018)

Pearse Doherty: ...discussions with the Minister for Justice and Equality or the Reception and Integration Agency regarding the need for additional spaces, teachers and educational resources in respect of the proposed direct provision centres in County Donegal; his plans to ensure the education needs of the residents will be met; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50198/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (4 Dec 2018)

Pearse Doherty: 232. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he is satisfied that local communities in County Donegal in which direct provision facilities are being proposed have been adequately consulted regarding such facilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50200/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (4 Dec 2018)

Pearse Doherty: ...the discussions he has had with the Minister for Justice and Equality or the Reception and Integration Agency regarding the need for healthcare resources and supports in County Donegal for proposed direct provision centres to be located there; his plans to ensure the health needs of the residents will be met; the additional health services which will be made available to support residents...

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (29 Mar 2018)

Pearse Doherty: ...children living in Department-funded emergency accommodation and these figures do not include rough sleepers, adults and children in Tusla-funded domestic violence shelters or refugees forced to use direct provision as emergency accommodation after having secured their right to remain. More than 3,755 children slept in emergency accommodation last night, in hotels, bed and breakfast...

Financial Resolutions 2018 - Budget Statement 2018 (10 Oct 2017)

Pearse Doherty: .... We identified several areas where additional funding is urgently needed. It is needed - not wanted nor wished for - to keep people alive. Instead, the Government has allocated only €35 million, a highly doubtful figure. Community mental health 24/7 crisis intervention needs to move beyond the current Monday to Friday week-day service. If we are to have a fit-for-purpose...

Death and Burial of Children in Mother and Baby Homes: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jun 2014)

Pearse Doherty: ...mind the worst aspects of the most brutal regimes of the last century. These things happened in this state and a conservative and anti-woman mentality allowed them to happen. It is not good enough to say they happened in the past and that the past was a different place. They happened because people let them happen. People - Irish people - committed these crimes or, through inaction,...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Seeker Accommodation (20 Nov 2012)

Pearse Doherty: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide, in tabular form, the total cost to the State per year for every year since it opened of the Towers Hotel direct provision hostel, Clondalkin, Dublin 22; the total number of adults and children resident at the hostel on 1 January each year for every year since the hostel opened; the number of inspections carried out by...

Seanad: Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2008: Second Stage (1 Oct 2008)

Pearse Doherty: ...and voluntary sector housing, but also tenant purchase and the rental accommodation scheme. This is a very dangerous move as it signals the Government's intention to move away once again from direct provision of public housing in favour of sale or private rental sector options. The Government is already significantly behind on the national development plan commitments in terms of social...

Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2007: Second Stage (18 Dec 2007)

Pearse Doherty: ...of these Houses and the public. If the economy is doing so well, why are pensioners only getting €14 extra a week? One can also ask why we have not increased the fuel allowance and why does direct provision remain at €19.10 per week? Either the economy is in slowdown, in which case we should have used last week's budget allocation more effectively, or the economy is still thriving,...