Results 1-20 of 102 for "direct provision" speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett

International Protection Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...accompanied by other measures long wished for by asylum seekers and those who support them, chief of which are the granting of the right to work and the ending of the shame and scandal that is the direct provision system. As when dealing with other legislation, despite the guillotining and short-circuiting of the proper legislative process surrounding this Bill, I got as many...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Asylum Seeker Employment (20 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...from the health service to special needs education, childcare and construction. I could go through a list. Despite this, thousands of people who are forced to live in fairly inhumane conditions in direct provision centres, many of them in isolated areas, want to work but cannot do so. This does not make sense for them or for society. Why should applicants be forced to wait nine months...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision Expenditure (11 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 303. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide, in tabular form, a list of contracts awarded to, and amounts paid to, the owners and operators of direct provision centres from the establishment of the direct provision system to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42995/14]

Direct Provision: Statements (30 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...imply criticism of the outrageous policies of US President Donald Trump vis-à-visimmigrants and asylum seekers in the United States and continue to stand over a degrading, inhumane, cruel system of direct provision, which is guilty of child neglect and abuse if nothing else. It is guilty of many other things too. The treatment of children living for years in this system of direct...

Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Minister admit that the Government has abandoned the direct provision of council housing? Does he accept that this decision and the cuts in rent allowance caps is a policy that is disastrously failing the 96,000 people on the housing list and represents a massive waste of taxpayers' money? Will the Government abandon the policy and revert to the direct provision of council housing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Direct Provision: Department of Social Protection (18 Nov 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...between the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government, the local authorities and the Department of Social Protection. Going by my experience, which is not specifically with direct provision, I would anticipate that this could become an issue for people who have got their status and are trying to exit direct provision and find rental accommodation, which is very...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Direct Provision: Minister of State at the Department of Justice and Equality (1 Apr 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...for the wrong done to people. The other issue on which we have touched that is unacceptable is the veil of secrecy and lack of transparency and oversight in terms of what has been going on in direct provision centres, which have been excluded from the normal inspection and oversight process. That is shocking. We were all shocked by what was revealed in the clerk's report, when...

Written Answers — Asylum Support Services: Asylum Support Services (25 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 67: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to improve the living conditions of asylum seekers living in direct provision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31226/11]

Written Answers — Asylum Support Services: Asylum Support Services (8 May 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 102: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his views on the conditions at Eyre Powell, direct provision centre in Newbridge, County Kildare; if he has met with residents regarding their concerns and his plans to make improvements and refurbishments. [22666/12]

Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----or through the direct provision of council houses to end the abomination whereby 96,000 people are on the housing list at a time when we have nearly a quarter of a million empty properties in the State? It is an obscenity.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Child Protection (11 Dec 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will outline the measures in place to ensure the safety and welfare of children in direct provision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54503/12]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (15 Apr 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 477. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the lines of communication between his Department and RIA; the frequency of meetings; the procedures for dealing with issues that occur in direct provision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17534/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (15 Apr 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 478. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the procedures in place in direct provision centres in circumstances of deaths of residents in terms of notification, burial and communication with other residents; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17535/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (24 Sep 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 38. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she has received any Health Information and Quality Authority reports on investigations into conditions in direct provision centres; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35427/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (23 Jun 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 375. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when the report of the working group on direct provision will be published, in view of the fact that it is expected to be published in June 2015; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24843/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (22 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 37. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans regarding the system of direct provision, including a detailed timeline; if the human rights of asylum seekers are being vindicated under the current system; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17148/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision Data (15 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 72. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the details of all companies involved in contracts for direct provision, including moneys paid to these companies each year over the past five years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34854/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (15 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 94. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans for changing the system of direct provision; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34853/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision Data (15 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 248. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons employed in direct provision centres by the companies operating same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41655/19]

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]