Results 1-20 of 116 for "direct provision" speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Development Plan (23 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...34 houses per year each. The capacity is not there, and it is not going to be provided by those small builders. How do we get young people, people who have come to this country and are now languishing in direct provision and people who have finished their apprenticeships but are leaving to go to Canada, Australia or wherever to go into construction? The State should go into the...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2023: Discussion (12 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...issues. They cannot afford childcare but they could potentially be contributing by working and helping us to deal with the skills shortages. The same is true of asylum applicants. Are people going into the direct provision centres and finding out what skills residents have, what they want to do and so on? Is anyone trying to help them to get into the labour force rather than leaving...

Ceisteanna - Questions: North-East Inner City Initiative (26 Apr 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: .... What are the modern versions of that? We must bear in mind the impact that had and how devastating it was. The modern versions of that are children who spend years in homeless accommodation or direct provision and people living in appalling housing conditions. Imagine the resentment that creates and the trauma and damage it does to someone's psyche, and how that will impact on a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...has been zoned and earmarked for social housing has not even been serviced to provide the housing in our area in big swathes of land. There is a problem. The Government does not want to go back to the direct provision of council housing. It wants instead to rely on the private sector. That is at the root of our problem.

Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...let rents or house prices go down. If the Government is labouring under that illusion, it is a mistaken illusion that will not happen. The public sector has to ramp up, on a massive scale, the direct provision of public and social housing. By the way, I supported all those projects and never opposed one of them. What I do oppose is the wasting of human labour building properties...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...started bawling and crying, just thinking about their situation. Sadly, such cases are repeated again and again. This week, another woman came to my clinic. She spent five years living in direct provision and now lives in a hostel with her young son who is very seriously traumatised. I could see that because he came in to my office with his mother. He was carrying a little bag which...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Student Accommodation (7 Jul 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...Minister said really suggests to me that we are not going to face major problems again this year. Does the Minister agree with me that, although HAP is not an ideal scheme by any means compared to the direct provision of student accommodation or any form of accommodation, we should at least be bringing the rents down to affordable levels for student by providing subsidies such as HAP?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí agus ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy and Legislation (28 Apr 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...has been a very controversial company It has been criticised for the poor quality of its catering in US prisons and for the poor quality of some of the catering it provides people in the abhorrent direct provision system. There were protests by artists and workers at the National Gallery about it getting the contract for the café in the National Gallery, which is right here beside...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Commissions of Investigation (5 Apr 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...scandal that we are going to be investigating very soon, namely, the scandal of children who are homeless being put through the trauma of being made homeless and living in emergency accommodation or direct provision for years. Indeed, we may well be investigating the state of some of the accommodation that Ukrainian refugees are being put into now, judging from early reports. There is a...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (29 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 571. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will consider allowing all persons in direct provision to work given the new refugee programme for those fleeing war in Ukraine; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14565/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Asylum Seekers (25 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 450. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to move Afghan refugees out of direct provision centres; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3207/22]

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (3 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...of relying on the private sector in order to solve the housing crisis and the rental crisis. What is necessary, on a far greater scale than this Government or any recent government has been willing to consider, is a return to the direct provision by the State of affordable rental accommodation. In other words, we need council housing, which is genuinely affordable and based on a...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...in. I just thought it would be important to respond to Deputy McAuliffe's point. The point is that we should legislate in line with Government policy. If the new policy of the Government is the direct provision of public housing, as Deputy McAuliffe says, and for 100% public and affordable housing on public land, let us first acknowledge that that is a departure from the initial...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...the reasons for the rising infection rate. Those two things are not the same and the Government is implying that they are. When we had come so close to eliminating community transmission the disease was continuing to fester in direct provision centres, meat processing plants, certain workplace environments and certain large-scale congregations. We know those settings are where it...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...'s houses at that point but the places that the Government refused to act against. These are the places, which the Bill does not focus on in any serious way, such as the meat processing plans, the direct provision centres and so on. Most crucially of all, however, it came back due to the policy decision of the Government essentially to say there is an acceptable level of community...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (13 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 396. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to phase out the reliance on direct provision centres as a method of housing asylum seekers especially in view of the overcrowded conditions of centres increasing the likelihood of Covid-19 transmission; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29927/20]

Health Act 1947 (Section 31A - Temporary Restrictions) (Covid-19) (No. 4) Regulations 2020: Motion [Private Members] (9 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...that we may not be able to have a sister over to a house and to do so might be made a criminal offence does not make sense to people. When the State puts people into overcrowded housing conditions, direct provision centres and so on it is not committing an offence whereas having more than six people in one's house might be. It makes no sense. We do not believe that Minister should...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Legislative Framework Underpinning the State's Response (9 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the contributors. I very much welcome the part of the Law Society's submission which suggests action should be taken to accelerate the end of direct provision and the suggestion in terms of ensuring the resources necessary for social distancing in overcrowded in housing conditions. That is very positive. Following everything that has been said about confusion over legal...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Direct Provision System (8 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...Affairs his views on whether the model of accommodation for asylum seekers leads to a well-integrated society; if not, his plans for alternative models in view of the recent death by suicide in a direct provision centre in Carrickmacross, County Monaghan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22332/20]

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Testing and Tracing (25 Jun 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...know who is contracting the disease? We have heard that young people are contracting the virus. Are they young people who were drinking cans on the banks of the canal or are they young people in direct provision? There is a big difference between those things and we need to know them in order to make informed decisions.