Results 1-20 of 61 for "direct provision" speaker:Catherine Murphy

Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2024)

Catherine Murphy: ...still are - were bussed to Crooksling, the optics were that they were being hidden from international eyes for the St. Patrick’s Day festival. It is an appalling way to treat human beings. The direct provision system, which was to be phased out, is overwhelmed and cannot cope with the new intake of over 5,500 people who have been through the immigration system and have the right...

Recent Arson Attacks: Statements (27 Feb 2024)

Catherine Murphy: ...for considering offers of accommodation and the absence of communication with communities are leaving a dangerous vacuum. There is no doubt the war in Ukraine has changed the dynamic and removed the possibility of ending direct provision. There is a whole-of-government issue, yet the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth is primarily left dealing with an...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024)

Catherine Murphy: -----even in a note afterwards, that would be appreciated. What happens in the case of a person who does not accept direct provision and does not receive any State assistance? Presumably, that is people who have family who are already here. Does that include the €38 for an adult? Do these people receive no support whatsoever? Does the Secretary General know the numbers involved?

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (17 Oct 2023)

Catherine Murphy: 458. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on HIQA inspections of direct provision centres; the number of inspections that have been undertaken to date; if he will provide a schedule for inspections over the coming months, and if the mandate of HIQA will be broadened to cover emergency accommodation centres. [44842/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (20 Oct 2022)

Catherine Murphy: ...To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update in respect of the progress that has been made since the publication of a white paper to end direct provision; the number of international protection applicants that have transitioned into the new model to date in 2022; and if he will provide an update in respect of the work completed...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Oct 2022)

Catherine Murphy: I particularly picked out a specific area. We all know there is a housing crisis. At the same time, there is a commitment in the programme for Government to cease direct provision or to work towards its cessation. This response tells us that 11 contracts involving 1,295 additional beds have been secured through this process so, in actual fact, we are going the other direction. I know...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Oct 2022)

Catherine Murphy: However, there was an accommodation crisis when the programme for Government was put in place. There were then people in direct provision who had been through the process and this commitment was made even at that point so it is not the case that it was unknown. We knew there was going to be a challenge but has the external advisory group been informed? That is one of the key questions we...

Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Second Stage (1 Jul 2022)

Catherine Murphy: ...to put roofs over people's heads, but we have to set a clear and acceptable standard for the accommodation we put people into, even if is very temporary accommodation. We cannot repeat the sins of direct provision in this system. Yes, we have a moral obligation to take in refugees. I do not dispute that at all, but we also have a moral and legal obligation to ensure they are treated...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (31 May 2022)

Catherine Murphy: 506. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of staff who have been assigned to the implementation of the white paper on ending direct provision from 2021 to date in tabular form. [27692/22]

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (28 Apr 2022)

Catherine Murphy: On the direct provision issue raised by Deputy Carthy, Ms McPhillips said she was not in a position to give us the information. Will she pass us a note on that afterwards? The committee cannot find itself falling through the cracks between two Departments. This would have been prior to-----

Health and Criminal Justice (Covid-19) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021: Second Stage (3 Dec 2021)

Catherine Murphy: ...violence, the isolation of older people in nursing homes and who are cocooning, the isolation of single people, the unsafe conditions for people in crowded and substandard accommodation like, for example, direct provision, and gardaí not being clear on - although this was much more at the beginning - what was guidance and what was law. I saw some of that myself. A fundamental...

Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Nov 2021)

Catherine Murphy: ...by asylum seekers, human rights groups and several Members of the Oireachtas. The delay in affording driver licences to asylum seekers has caused more hardship than has been necessary. It has added to the hardship. Direct provision centres are often in isolated locations and not having the ability to drive has been an impediment to getting work, bringing children to school, socialising...

Criminal Justice (Smuggling of Persons) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (4 Nov 2021)

Catherine Murphy: ...right to liberty and security, the right to asylum, the right to fair procedures and the right to an effective remedy. The State continues to fail in this regard. We need only look at the conditions in direct provision centres or the appalling standards on so many of our fishing trawlers to see just how severely we have failed these people. We saw a story on social media in the last few...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (3 Feb 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 469. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the amount paid to commercial firms to accommodate persons seeking international protection and privately-owned direct provision centres in each of the years 2017 to 2019, and to the date in 2020 on which responsibility was passed to his Department; if he will provide the schedule and number of firms and-or...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (3 Feb 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 470. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of firms and or companies that received payments directly related to the services associated with direct provision in each of the years 2017 to 2020, inclusive. [5173/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (3 Feb 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 471. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of persons seeking international protection who were accommodated in direct provision centres in each of the years 2017 to 2020, inclusive; the number broken down by gender, and if they were minors or adults, in direct provision centres at the end of 2020; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Feb 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 472. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of residents in direct provision centres who contracted Covid-19 in 2020 and to date in 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5175/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (3 Feb 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 473. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of residents in direct provision who have secured refugee status but remained at direct provision centres in the end of 2020. [5176/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (3 Feb 2021)

Catherine Murphy: 474. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of new direct provision centres opened in 2019 and 2020. [5177/21]

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (9 Dec 2020)

Catherine Murphy: I want to return to the expenditure on direct provision. When we learn of problems in this area very often it emerges in the public arena or people make contact with us. We saw some very unsatisfactory cases this year, with one group of people having to move from one hotel to another owing to a Covid issue. These people were moved from a hotel in Dublin to a hotel in Kerry and there...