Results 1-20 of 20 for "direct provision" speaker:Brendan Howlin

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Seekers (23 Jan 2024)

Brendan Howlin: 421. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the supports available to enable international protection applicants, long-time resident in direct provision centres, to undertake courses of study to acquire skills that will be useful to enable them to find employment if their applications are approved; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2440/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Engagement with Representatives from the European Parliament (4 Nov 2020)

Brendan Howlin: ...in Ireland. We are probably all guilty to some extent and we need to see how we can fess up in that regard. From a domestic perspective, we need to address the matter, not only with reference to direct provision, in respect of which the Catherine Day report was instanced, but also with reference to transparency in the processing of asylum applications. There are two direct provision...

Estimates for Public Services 2020 (Resumed) (9 Jul 2020)

Brendan Howlin: ...with the Minister the oversight of INIS that is required. I asked the Taoiseach earlier in the week why INIS did not transfer to the new Department for Children, Disability, Equality and Integration since the direct provision system will fall under the integration aspect of that new Department. He explained that the matter had been debated but not decided upon. That new Department might...

Estimates for Public Services 2020 (7 Jul 2020)

Brendan Howlin: ...International Protection Office, are an applicant and his or her legal representative. I ask that we review this. I hope the Taoiseach will consider it. It was good to move responsibility for direct provision to a new Department responsible for integration, whose Minister is Deputy O'Gorman. Given that this Department is to be responsible for direct provision, surely the...

Covid-19 (Foreign Affairs and Trade): Statements (3 Jun 2020)

Brendan Howlin: ...and the inherent racism that exists here. I am not making equivalence but we cannot with a clear conscience criticise others if we do not resolve problems here, including the unresolved issue of direct provision. I believe we as a Parliament and as a people must be heard crystal clear on this issue. The obscene assault on peaceful protesters and the hijacking of symbols of religion for...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Nov 2019)

Brendan Howlin: ...growing concern right across law enforcement and intelligence agencies across Europe" and stated that the Garda was concerned about right-wing social media activity, planned arson attacks targeting direct provision centres and the infiltration of community groups. The Garda Commissioner specifically mentioned the difficulty of far-right messages being shared on websites and social media....

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Nov 2019)

Brendan Howlin: ...again the Government's mismanagement of precious State financial resources. The report is set to highlight overspending in areas such as An Garda Síochána, the Health Service Executive, the direct provision system and a range of other public agencies across the board. For example, in the case of the HSE alone, it will note an alarming level of non-compliance in the procurement...

Provision of Accommodation and Ancillary Services to Applicants for International Protection: Statements (13 Nov 2019)

Brendan Howlin: According to a spending review, published by the Department of Justice and Equality in August, 39 direct provision centres are in operation. Seven of them are State-owned but all the centres are managed by private contractors. Recent statistics show that we had just under 3,000 applications for asylum in 2017 with just over 5,000 people living in direct provision with an average length of...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision Data (10 Jul 2019)

Brendan Howlin: 225. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons in direct provision by number of years they have been there, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30358/19]

European Council: Statements (4 Jul 2018)

Brendan Howlin: ...playing our role to create a Europe that is open, welcoming and tolerant, we should ensure that hate crime legislation meets international best practice. Similarly, as I have said previously, we need to end direct provision and provide a pathway to Irish citizenship for the undocumented migrants here. Otherwise we are in great danger of institutionalising a second tier of unofficial...

Leaders' Questions (28 Jun 2018)

Brendan Howlin: ...action we need and to take it urgently. I have two questions for the Tánaiste. Does the Government agree that it is now time for a once-off general amnesty to take the few thousand people in direct provision off what is, by common consensus, an ineffective and inhumane system and to allow them to regularise their lives and work in Ireland? Does the Government agree that we...

Leaders' Questions (28 Jun 2018)

Brendan Howlin: ...- something I have heard on many occasions - to regularise the few thousand people involved. The number is, in comparison with what Spain, Italy, Greece or Malta is receiving, minuscule. It would end direct provision and deal with people expeditiously as they arrive from now on. We should also regularise the undocumented, many of whom, or whose parents, we invited here. For example,...

Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Jun 2018)

Brendan Howlin: ...still be restrictions. This development has been a long time coming. Ireland is one of only two EU countries not allowing migrants to work. The report of the working group on the protection process and direct provision, the McMahon report, recommended that the right to work be given within nine months and that a decision be made on asylum applications within 12 months. Will this...

United States Immigration Policy: Motion (20 Jun 2018)

Brendan Howlin: ...journeys. That minimum standard is known as human rights. This is our responsibility, as Irish legislators, Europeans and human beings. For this reason, Ireland should abolish its failed system of direct provision and allow asylum seekers here to work and cook their own meals, as a basic recognition of human rights. These human rights standards apply equally to the United States of...

Calais Migrant Camp: Statements (2 Nov 2016)

Brendan Howlin: ...long. However, one major problem remains and it is what to do with unaccompanied minors when they reach the age of majority at 18. Some of them if they have applied for asylum must then enter the direct provision system and they face other challenges. Despite what Ministers say, we do not have a targeted national policy. We do not have a clear strategy for unaccompanied minors. No...

Revised Estimates for Public Services 2016 (Resumed) (22 Jun 2016)

Brendan Howlin: ...have an enormous role to play in giving a different role model in providing justice for people and ensuring there will be fewer people in the prison system and recidivists going through revolving doors in prisons. In the few minutes I have, I will mention direct provision. My colleague Senator Ó Ríordáin, a former Minister of State, drove the McMahon report as hard as...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Irish Water Administration (19 Jan 2016)

Brendan Howlin: ...recommendation from the Joint Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions and the independent working group on improvements to the protection process to extend the Ombudsman's remit to the direct provision system. These proposals and recommendations, as well as those put forward by the Deputy, are being examined and considered. As the process of extension continues, specific...

Freedom of Information Act 2014: Motions (2 Apr 2015)

Brendan Howlin: ...who seeks their personal records, be they an asylum seeker or otherwise, will be unaffected by this and will have access to their records. I wish to comment on Deputy McDonald's commentary on direct provision. As she knows, a review on direct provision is taking place at present and I look forward to the result of it being sent to the Government. There are real concerns across the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Act 2014: Motions (1 Apr 2015)

Brendan Howlin: ...seekers who need to have their case heard and, where there is a coherent case to be made, need to have their applications approved so they can get on with their life rather than being caught in direct provision. I share Deputy McDonald's concern regarding the direct provision system. As she knows, the Government has established a review group and the Minister of State at the Department...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (9 Nov 2010)

Brendan Howlin: Question 205: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that a person (details supplied) has received no direct provision payment from a local community welfare officer for the past seven weeks; the steps she will take to restore direct provision payment to this person; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41503/10]