Results 1-20 of 134 for "direct provision" speaker:Eoin Ó Broin

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (22 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 264. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when his Department started to write to people with status or leave to remain in direct provision centres giving them dates by which they would have to leave the direct provision centre or be moved to another centre; the number of such letters issued to date; the criteria for issuing such letters; the rationale...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (30 Jan 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: 481. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when his Department started to write to people with status/leave to remain in direct provision centres giving them dates by which they would have to leave the direct provision centre or be moved to another centre; the number of such letters issued to date; the criteria for issuing such letters; the rationale...

Housing and Homeless Prevention: Motion [Private Members] (23 Jan 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...of the real level of homelessness. The Minister knows that as well as I do because there are women and children in domestic violence refuges funded by Tusla. There are men and women in hostels that receive no State funding. There are rough sleepers. A growing number of people who have been through the direct provision system, and have been granted leave to remain, are trapped in direct...

Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) (No. 2) Bill 2023: First Stage (28 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: ..., men and women in religious emergency hostels not receiving any State funding, men, women and children who have been through the asylum system but granted leave to remain and are now trapped in direct provision, effectively using it as a form of emergency accommodation, or indeed the unknown number of people sofa surfing or living in inappropriate and inadequate accommodation. A similar...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (14 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 464. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated cost, broken into current and capital, of ending direct provision. [49884/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (14 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 465. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the updated estimated cost, broken into current and capital, of ending direct provision, as per Chapter 10 of A White Paper to End Direct Provision and to Establish a New International Protection Support Service. [49885/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (14 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...costs of purchasing, refurbishing or constructing units costs and the current costs including income supports (netting off any savings that may be secured from moving individuals out of the existing direct provision model). [49889/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (7 Nov 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 1002. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when his Department started to write to people with status or leave to remain in direct provision centres giving them dates by which they would have to leave the direct provision centre or be moved to another centre; the number of such letters issued to date; the criteria for issuing such letters; the...

Eviction Ban Bill 2022: Motion (27 Sep 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...women and children in domestic violence refuges funded by Tusla and the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth. It does not include the 5,000 men, women and children trapped in direct provision who have their leave to remain but cannot get out because of the housing crisis and are essentially using it as emergency accommodation. It does not include the...

Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jul 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...? Almost 12,700 people are officially classified as homeless. Of course, the Minister knows that the number is much higher, as this figure does not include women and children in Tusla's domestic violence refuges, people in homeless accommodation not funded by the State or the 5,000 people trapped in direct provision and unable to leave because of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael's housing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Exempted Development) (No. 4) Regulations 2023: Discussion
Planning and Development (Fees for Certain Applications) Regulations 2023: Discussion
Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. XX) Regulations 2023: Discussion (11 Jul 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is important to understand that the quality of the accommodation we are talking about is significantly below that of direct provision or standard homeless emergency accommodation, for example. I know that because I go in and out of a few of these facilities. In general, these are large rooms with multiple beds or bunk beds in large communal spaces with outdoor portaloos and limited...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (11 Jul 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 617. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when his Department started to write to people with status/leave to remain in Direct Provision centres giving them dates by which they would have to leave the direct provision centre or be moved to another centre; the number of such letters issued to date; the criteria for issuing such letters; the rationale...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (5 Jul 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: Ms Tracy Dube is a Zimbabwean international living in the Clondalkin Towers direct provision centre. She works as a part-time healthcare assistant in a nursing home and is studying social care full-time in Technological University Dublin, TUD. She received her leave to remain in October 2021 and was approved for homeless housing assistance payment, HAP, in October of last year. Since then,...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (21 Jun 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 164. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children living in international protection accommodation services accommodation, including direct provision, pre-reception, temporary emergency and emergency centres, who have their status, permission to remain, subsidiary protection or refugee status. [29938/23]

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

Eoin Ó Broin: ...parts of the State, the number of men, women and children seeking international protection who have joined our community in the past year and a half has been significant. We have gone from having a direct provision centre with a population of approximately 250 people and with very good connections to our local community to having five centres and a community of approximately 2,000 people...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (18 Apr 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 1259. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of people in accommodation provided by the international protection accommodation services, including direct provision, pre-reception, temporary emergency and emergency centres, who have refugee status, subsidiary protection or permission to remain, alongside people who have not yet received their...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (21 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on the place finders service offered to individuals and families with leave to remain but trapped in direct provision; the number of such services; the location of each; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13834/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (9 Mar 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: 295. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the White Paper to end direct provision and establish a new International Protection Support Service has explored the extension of the HAP to the sponsor prior to the arrival of family in cases of family reunification; if so, if this change is likely to be adopted; and if not, if it is something his...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: ...challenge. All of this means that, particularly because of the over-reliance on hotel accommodation, we will face a very significant challenge come April. Some of this is not new. The crisis in direct provision did not just arrive in the last year. In 2018, 600 men, women and children who had a legal right to remain in the country were trapped and essentially using direct provision...

Declaration of a Housing Emergency: Motion [Private Members] (22 Nov 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...disabilities and older people continue to experience discrimination in the housing system; — those seeking international protection continue to live in inadequate accommodation, while thousands of people granted asylum are unable to find a pathway out of Direct Provision; and — in response to the deepening housing crisis, Raise the Roof, the trade union and civil...