Results 1-20 of 20 for "direct provision" speaker:Eamon Ryan

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (1 Jun 2023)

Eamon Ryan: ...Pobal on behalf of the Department of Rural and Community Development. Depending on the organisation involved, upcycled bicycles are made available for free or at a lower cost to various groups including those in direct provision or those outside employment. A review of this pilot will be undertaken later this year with a view to ascertaining the impact of this Initiative. My...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (25 Apr 2023)

Eamon Ryan: ...Pobal on behalf of the Department of Rural and Community Development. Depending on the organisation involved, upcycled bicycles are made available for free or at a lower cost to various groups including those in direct provision or those outside employment. A review of this pilot will be undertaken this year with a view to ascertaining the impact of this Initiative. My Department will...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (21 Mar 2023)

Eamon Ryan: ...Pobal on behalf of the Department of Rural and Community Development. Depending on the organisation involved, upcycled bicycles are made available for free or at a lower cost to various groups including those in direct provision or those outside employment. A review of this pilot will be undertaken later this year with a view to ascertaining the impact of this Initiative. My...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2021)

Eamon Ryan: ...avoid what happened in Maynooth and other locations, in which large volumes of housing estates where bought up, was there was a clear indication and signal at that time, for example, with regard to direct provision, social housing or such policy areas where we want to see an immediate response in supply this year, that we would look to try to take a different approach in such categories. ...

Covid-19 (Transport and Travel): Statements (10 Feb 2021)

Eamon Ryan: ...impacts of the pandemic on our public transport, aviation, maritime, travel and trade sectors with innovative thinking. There are also many staff across the transport sector involved in the direct provision of services to the public who have attended the workplace throughout the pandemic to ensure these essential services continue to be available to citizens. I thank those transport...

Covid-19 (Taoiseach): Statements (11 Jun 2020)

Eamon Ryan: ...coming to really address the third matter, which is how we treat those who are most vulnerable. If people are seeking asylum or refuge here, we must immediately end the processes where we put them in conditions in direct provision that fundamentally undermine their mental health and ability to make this country their home if they are approved to stay here. The way we are doing things...

Covid-19 (Taoiseach): Statements (30 Apr 2020)

Eamon Ryan: ...need for us to look at our nursing home systems and how they can adapt now and for any potential future waves of this pandemic. It is not just our nursing homes, and is happening with some people in direct provision or elsewhere, such as the examples Deputy Micheál Martin mentioned, including meat factories, where we were not able to make the changes that we were able to make in our...

Health (Covid-19): Statements (23 Apr 2020)

Eamon Ryan: ...time with Deputy Joe O'Brien. Our first thoughts are with families in nursing homes, where we have seen such a raging epidemic, and in other residential and congregational settings, such as in direct provision or religious orders, where we have heard stories about the number dying in recent weeks. That tragedy and the urgent need to continue to tackle these issues drive us to support the...

An Bille um Bearta Éigeandála ar mhaithe le Leas an Phobail (Covid-19), 2020: An Dara Céim - Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Second Stage (26 Mar 2020)

Eamon Ryan: ..., including support for the concept of Eurobonds. It is vital we do not leave countries experiencing difficulties alone at this time, particularly countries such as Italy. Just as we need to consider direct provision centres here at home and how we manage those cases, we also need to support the Greek government and others with ongoing refugee crises. That is now doubling down with the...

An Bille um Bearta Éigeandála ar mhaithe le Leas an Phobail (Covid-19), 2020: An Dara Céim - Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Second Stage (26 Mar 2020)

Eamon Ryan: ...be many people who have the virus but who do not have easy self-isolation facilities in their own homes and we need to provide facilities for those people. We particularly have to consider those in direct provision centres or nursing homes where the capability for such isolation is particularly difficult. They should be our first priority. It is in congregations or settings where it is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Energy Efficient Housing: Discussion (15 May 2019)

Eamon Ryan: ...including with broadband and social housing, where the State is providing huge benefit to private owners from public funding. At a certain point, one has to ask whether such funding would be better used in direct provision. We should be nervous about the feasibility of the grants aspect of the proposed funding model. There is a debate that must be had in the next five months in terms...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Data (27 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 214. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing the weekly allowance for children living in direct provision to the current rate for a qualified child including a €5 increase for over 12's and the adult weekly allowance to €38.80 as recommended by the working group on the protection process; and if she will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision Data (18 Sep 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 314. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the breakdown of residents in direct provision centres; the number of adult males and females, respectively; the number of child males and females, respectively; and the number of bedrooms for each direct provision centre. [37653/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Direct Provision Data (12 Jul 2018)

Eamon Ryan: 691. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost per annum to increase the weekly direct provision allowance to €188. [32161/18]

Reception Conditions Directive: Motion (23 Jan 2018)

Eamon Ryan: ...similar countries, we are remarkably negative and restrictive in our assessment of asylum applications. Our percentages of refusals are a multiple of those in similar countries. The direct provision system is incredibly expensive in terms of the amount of money we have to spend. Even the deportation process is unclear, not effective and deeply destructive to people who are caught in...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (19 Oct 2017)

Eamon Ryan: 103. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the planned changes to direct provision; and the timeframe for their implementation. [44535/17]

EU Migration and Refugee Crisis: Statements (28 Apr 2016)

Eamon Ryan: ...rate is one of the worst. Putting people in the existing system into a longer decision-making process is a shameful record which does not match what is being said here today. Our treatment of people in direct provision, whereby they cannot work or even cook for themselves, is something we must change immediately, regardless of our working within the European system. We need to increase...

Written Answers — Telecommunications Services: Telecommunications Services (13 May 2010)

Eamon Ryan: The direct provision of broadband services is a contractual matter between the service provider and its customer and I am therefore not in a position to intervene in such matters. The service provider retains the primary responsibility for complaint resolution where a user experiences difficulties with the service being provided to them. If a customer is not satisfied with the service...

Written Answers — Telecommunications Services: Telecommunications Services (30 Jun 2009)

Eamon Ryan: I have no function in the direct provision of broadband services to customers. This is a contractual matter between the service provider and its customer. The provision of electronic communications services including broadband, is primarily a matter for private sector operators. Statutory responsibility for the regulation of telecommunications operators, including complaint resolution...

Written Answers — Telecommunications Services: Telecommunications Services (10 Jul 2008)

Eamon Ryan: I have no function in the direct provision of broadband services to customers. This is a contractual matter between the service provider and their customer. The provision of electronic communications services including broadband, is primarily a matter for private sector operators. Statutory responsibility for the regulation of telecommunications operators including regulatory issues...