Results 1-20 of 33 for "direct provision" speaker:Maureen O'Sullivan

Other Questions: Direct Provision System (4 Jul 2017)

Maureen O'Sullivan: My question relates to services for non-national children, particularly those living in direct provision. Will additional resources be put in place for non-national children in direct provision or other settings?

Other Questions: Direct Provision System (4 Jul 2017)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I was not particularly looking at services of social workers and non-national children living in direct provision centres but also those children living in appalling private rented accommodation. I know that we have responsible landlords, but, unfortunately, I have seen some appalling private rented accommodation in which there is serious overcrowding and unsanitary conditions. I was...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision Data (1 Jul 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 436. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the supports that will be made available to the 1,791 children currently in direct provision in view of the Children First Bill 2014 being implemented in the foreseeable future; if she will ensure that the current health and welfare concerns in direct provision do not escalate to the level experienced in previous institutions such as the...

Topical Issue Debate: Direct Provision System (4 Oct 2017)

Maureen O'Sullivan: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle. I am glad to have the opportunity to raise this issue which is causing a lot of stress and concern to those affected who are living in direct provision. We are aware of the difficulties and the issues in direct provision, some of which are being addressed. There have been improvements, but there are other issues ongoing. This most recent controversy...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Seeker Accommodation (14 Feb 2013)

Maureen O'Sullivan: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the value of the individual contracts to providers of direct provision accommodation; and if these contracts were advertised and awarded as per the EU public procurement regulations. [7792/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (17 May 2016)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 134. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality how she will implement the key recommendations of the report of the working group on the protection process, including direct provision and supports to asylum seekers, in June 2015; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10404/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (23 Feb 2017)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 84. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if consideration will be given to the need for an independent complaints mechanism for those persons living in direct provision; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9176/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (29 Mar 2017)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 66. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her views on the establishment of an independent complaints mechanism for those living in direct provision. [15645/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (30 Mar 2017)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 64. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to address the concerns and fears of those persons living in direct provision who are applying through the single procedure process. [15638/17]

Other Questions: Direct Provision System (4 Jul 2017)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 37. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she is satisfied with the services offered by her Department to non-national children, in particular those in direct provision; and her plans to allocate additional resources to non-national children residing here. [31164/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Direct Provision System (13 Jun 2018)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 36. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she is satisfied that enough supports are in place for children in direct provision; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25452/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (16 Feb 2017)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 58. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Leaders' Questions on 9 February 2017, if she will address the problems relating to the immigration status of those young persons not in direct provision who, due to the lack of regularisation, cannot proceed to third level, employment or access social services, many of whom have been through second level education. [7645/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Seeker Accommodation (16 Apr 2013)

Maureen O'Sullivan: ...and Equality the steps he has taken in relation to the complaints made to him regarding conditions at a location (details supplied) in Dublin 1; if there are unannounced inspections at centres of Direct Provision; the extent of individual audits at each centre on income and expenditure to ensure the Exchequer funding is being spent as it should; his views on whether there is an adequate,...

Topical Issue Debate: Direct Provision System (4 Oct 2017)

Maureen O'Sullivan: ...supported in finding accommodation. However, we know that there is a crisis in the provision of accommodation and I feel for those who have been granted leave to remain but who are still living in direct provision accommodation because they have nowhere else to go. They are under terrible stress because they have been told they will have to move out. I know that they have been offered a...

Other Questions: Direct Provision System (4 Jul 2017)

Maureen O'Sullivan: ...work being done on the issue of integration. For organisations such as the family resource centres, a little extra funding, particularly at holiday time, would help in including children from direct provision centres or other non-national children and allow them to have access to those outings and activities in which Irish children take part. That was the point my question sought to address.

Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: ...on some children of living in inappropriate accommodation as a result of the terrible effects of successive Governments' housing policies or lack thereof. I was looking particularly at children in direct provision and children living in bed and breakfast and hotel accommodation. One week later, two reports came out that confirmed what I was saying. There was a HIQA report which showed...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Dec 2019)

Maureen O'Sullivan: ...and strategies. What is hidden is the reality of life and the impact of not having a home, whether people are in emergency accommodation, sleeping rough, in overcrowded unsuitable accommodation or in direct provision. What is also hidden is the impact and reality of inequality. I refer to two reports and I do not expect the Tánaiste to have heard of them. They were done by All...

Other Questions: Unaccompanied Minors and Separated Children (14 Feb 2017)

Maureen O'Sullivan: ...secondary level education, but because of their starters third level is not an option. Even those who have funding for PLC courses develop skills but cannot work. I am not referring to those in direct provision alone; rather, I am also referring to other unaccompanied minors the Minister met. We have to address the issue of status.

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

Maureen O'Sullivan: ...and baby homes? We often ask whether we ever learn from our history and I am not sure that we do because we are creating a Magdalen laundries-industrial school scandal for the future through the direct provision system and the deplorable conditions in which some foreign national children live. Has the Minister a recorded mortality rate for infants and children in direct provision? If...

International Protection Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: ...and dignity, but unfortunately this has not happened. What is to be welcomed is this is a first step in delivering the undertaking to reduce the length of time asylum applicants spend in the direct provision system by establishing a single application procedure. I visited Spirasi, which is based on the North Circular Road. It works with the victims of torture. In 2014, it worked...