Results 1-20 of 42 for "direct provision" speaker:Éamon Ó Cuív

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare and Civil Law (Liable Relatives and Child Maintenance) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: To be clear, if I get a stamp 4 visa, through being designated a refugee or granted compassionate permission to remain or subsidiary protection and I am still in direct provision accommodation, will I still be on the €38 rate?

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (17 Jan 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 1430. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of persons that have been placed in direct provision centres; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1809/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (17 Jan 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 1431. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of persons at present who have applied for international protection and sought accommodation under the direct provision scheme who were refused accommodation; whether these are all exclusively male; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1810/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Prices (15 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 234. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the arrangements that have been made to ensure that persons who are in own-door direct provision will get the €100 plus VAT reduction on their electricity bills as passed by Dáil Éireann recently; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8443/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (15 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...if consideration will be given to reducing the fees for registration for the scheme for the regularisation for long-term undocumented migrants given that many of the applicants particularly those in direct provision have very limited means; the way that the scale of fees was arrived at; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8441/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Direct Provision System (3 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Would I be right in thinking that there has been a rapid increase in the number of people in direct provision and, therefore, the number of people seeking asylum? Will the Minister indicate how many people have been in the system for more than four years? It seems that we are left with a problem that should largely have been resolved by people being processed through the system quickly and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Direct Provision System (3 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: Would they be in direct provision?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Direct Provision System (3 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 123. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of persons being housed in direct provision to date; the number of these in own-door accommodation; the progress made to date in fulfilling the commitments in the programme for Government in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4644/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Direct Provision System (3 Feb 2022)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I am seeking an update on accommodation for people in direct provision. Significant commitments were made in that regard. I know some actions have been taken. I ask the Minister to update me on own-door accommodation, for example. Are we progressing in moving people through the system faster? I know that is not the Minister's direct responsibility but he must be talking to the Minister...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (10 Nov 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 168. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the plans he has to end non-front door direct provision in Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54818/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (10 Nov 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his office has received allegations of poor food delivered in plastic bags, children living in fear and of families being bullied and intimidated in a direct provision centre (details supplied); the steps taken to ensure a high standard of food, security and accommodation in all direct provision centres; if any investigation has been carried...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (27 Jul 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 1953. To ask the Minister for Health the number of the adults in direct provision that have been vaccinated against Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35755/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Direct Provision System (6 Jul 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 58. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of persons admitted to direct provision since January 2020; the number who left direct provision in that time; the arrangements being made to provide independent living units for all these residents; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35624/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Direct Provision System (6 Jul 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: This question relates to the number of people admitted to direct provision since January 2020, the number who have left it since then, and the independent living arrangements that have been made for those who remain in direct provision in line with the programme for Government. The Minister might let us know what is happening in this regard and whether the numbers are going down.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Direct Provision System (6 Jul 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...? Am I correct that the number leaving has been matched by the number coming in? I would have believed that there was an opportunity in the past year and a half to radically reduce the number in direct provision, no matter how good that provision is. I recognise the progress being made, particularly on independent living but not so much on own-door facilities, although I acknowledge 33%...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Direct Provision System (6 Jul 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: .... Most of these processes lend themselves to being completed online. All sorts of services have been provided very effectively during this period. It seems cruel that people are being retained in direct provision because of the inability of the service to deal with the applications. I wish the Minister all the best in his meeting. When will the Minister have the number or what is the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (1 Jul 2021)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 327. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of persons in direct provision; the number of these living in independent living units with facilities to cook their own food; if an open and fair complaints procedure has been put in place; the other reforms carried out to the system in the past year; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

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...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Asylum Seekers (19 Nov 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 261. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the progress made since the formation of the Government to reform the whole system of treatment of asylum seekers, particularly with direct provision and the length of time it takes applicants to get a final determination on their applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37619/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (16 Jun 2020)

Éamon Ó Cuív: 518. To ask the Minister for Health the number of Covid-19 cases detected to date among residents in direct provision centres; the number of centres that these occurred in; if the residents of such centres were subsequently tested for Covid-19 in addition to the staff; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10209/20]