Results 1-20 of 22 for "direct provision" speaker:Joan Collins

Policing, Protests and Public Order: Statements (28 Nov 2023)

Joan Collins: ...immigrants, people of colour and anti-racists in the general community is one of growing danger. It has been building for years. We saw it on Sandwith Street and have seen it all year round outside direct provision centres. We needed to act five years ago but absolutely need to act now. The far-right actors who are committing and inciting acts of violent disruption need to be dealt...

Accommodation Needs for New Arrivals: Statements (23 May 2023)

Joan Collins: ...to make profits at the expense of ordinary people being able to find homes, and an asylum-seeking process intended to scare people away from the country through the cruelty inflicted on people through direct provision. The Government cannot now turn around and say it does not know why its response is not working properly. The difficulties we are facing are because of the rotten...

Co-ordination of International Protection Services: Statements (16 Feb 2023)

Joan Collins: ...couple of points in the three minutes available to me. For years, the Opposition has called for changes to the asylum process in this country, including when the Green Party was in opposition. The direct provision system is a national disgrace and a national embarrassment. It was set up to discourage people seeking international protection in Ireland by creating a service that was...

Taoiseach a Ainmniú - Nomination of Taoiseach (17 Dec 2022)

Joan Collins: ...past three budgets there has been a failure to ensure welfare payments keep pace with inflation, resulting in an actual cut. The one progressive measure announced by this Government was the promise to end direct provision, through which asylum seekers are, in effect, imprisoned for years, but it now looks like that promise has gone on the long finger. We have this rigamarole today...

Health and Criminal Justice (Covid-19) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 May 2021)

Joan Collins: ...restrictions, the cases were down to very low numbers. The Government did not take the advice of NPHET about introducing mandatory hotel quarantine. We did not handle our nursing homes well or our direct provision centres. We continued to allow people to travel even though others were liable to a penalty if they were 5 km or 20 km outside their homes. Then we had the Spanish variant,...

Homeless Prevention Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (15 Dec 2020)

Joan Collins: ...has gone up by a staggering 230% since July 2014. These figures, as others have pointed out, do not include rough sleepers, women and children in domestic violence refuges, those trapped in direct provision who cannot access housing or those young people sleeping on sofas in friends' homes, sleeping in squats or in other insecure situations. We also have the scandal whereby the number of...

Finance Bill 2020: Second Stage (4 Nov 2020)

Joan Collins: ...public health service; a functioning test and trace system; to tackle overcrowding by solving the housing crisis; a properly resourced Health and Safety Authority to ensure safety in the workplace; an emergency programme to close down direct provision; and funding to reduce class sizes. This Bill and the budget fail in these key areas. Despite the extra funding to help the health...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2020)

Joan Collins: ...increase in the 14-day incidence rate in over-65s and 31 outbreaks in nursing homes, seven of which were reported in the last week. There are 25 open outbreaks among vulnerable groups, with ten in direct provision centres, seven in homeless settings and another seven in Traveller communities. NPHET also made a point about increasing admissions to hospital and ICU beds, with 243 of 281...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (16 Jun 2020)

Joan Collins: 322. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a direct provision centre (details supplied) will be investigated; and if residents will be moved to a safe environment with heating and nutritional food immediately. [10630/20]

Provision of Accommodation and Ancillary Services to Applicants for International Protection: Statements (13 Nov 2019)

Joan Collins: ...peddle myths regarding asylum seekers. In that respect, they are no different to individuals such as Rowan Croft, Justin Barrett, Gemma O'Doherty and others who are seeking to use concerns about direct provision to build a far-right anti-migrant movement. One of those individuals, a certain Gearóid Murphy, has been in Oughterard, Lismore, Lisdoonvarna and Rooskey. Murphy openly...

Provision of Accommodation and Ancillary Services to Applicants for International Protection: Statements (13 Nov 2019)

Joan Collins: ...there is a plan to replace the white population in Europe through the dilution of national identity and the promotion of multiculturalism. This is absolute madness, but also very dangerous. On direct provision, the Movement of Asylum Seekers in Ireland, MASI, has described direct provision as a shame on Ireland, comparable to the Magdalen Laundries. When direct provision was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pre-budget Submissions: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)

Joan Collins: ...'s kids were living at home, they did not need that much, they were being given their dinner at home and so on. It did not consider that minorities are affected very differently by homelessness, direct provision or people having dependent children living with them. The proposal to extend recognised exceptions to the age-related payments is a good one. It is not saying that everyone...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pre-budget Submissions: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)

Joan Collins: When people leave direct provision and are homeless, would they go directly onto homeless HAP? Are they treated differently?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Pre-budget Submissions: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)

Joan Collins: We are discussing people in direct provision specifically here, but I recall seeing that there was difficulty with non-Irish nationals' access to rent and HAP.

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2017)

Joan Collins: ...legislated for and there should be a commitment to close all hubs by December 2019? Does he agree there is a danger, as the study says, that the newly established family hubs could become a form of direct provision for poor families? The report finds that the major reliance of successive Governments, particularly in the context of Rebuilding Ireland, on the private sector to provide...

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2017)

Joan Collins: ...to deliver funding to local authorities and housing bodies to enable them to build a minimum of 5,000 units a year. It has been said to the Taoiseach here today that these hubs can possibly become the direct provision centres of the future. He has heard it and he has had to respond to it. He has to deal with this emergency and meet with this group, Rory Hearne and the housing committee...

Direct Provision: Statements (30 Mar 2017)

Joan Collins: ...as one of the most shameful episodes in the history of the State. Generations in ten and 20 years will be looking for redress for the treatment they received in this State since 16 years ago. The direct provision system introduced more than 16 years ago was supposed to provide temporary accommodation for up to six months while a decision was made to accept or reject an asylum application....

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Direct Provision Payments (22 Nov 2016)

Joan Collins: 66. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when the recommendations in the June 2015 McMahon report that the direct provision weekly allowance for adults be increased to €38.74 and to €29.80 for children will be acted on. [35974/16]

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

Joan Collins: 138. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to the fact that there are reports that a person (details supplied) is on hunger strike in Globe House direct provision centre, Sligo; if her attention has further been drawn to the fact that there is growing concern in regard to the deterioration in the person's health; the action her Department is taking in...

Direct Provision for Asylum Seekers: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Oct 2014)

Joan Collins: ...and the health service in regard to symphysiotomy, where the State outsourced its responsibilities to religious institutions and then forgot about them, we now have a repeat of the situation in direct provision centres for asylum seekers. The difference is that they have been outsourced to for-profit private companies. No wonder Mrs. Justice Catherine McGuinness has said it is a new...