Results 1-20 of 26 for "direct provision" speaker:Mick Barry

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Nov 2023)

Mick Barry: ...smashed. In Finglas, a building earmarked for refugee accommodation was set ablaze in a petrol bomb attack. The Movement of Asylum Seekers in Ireland said there is fear and confusion in many direct provision centres. If people living in buildings with locked doors and security staff are feeling fearful, what will it be like for an asylum seeker who is forced to sleep rough on the...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (28 Jun 2023)

Mick Barry: I understand that the European Council will again be discussing migration and there are some points on this subject I want to bring to the attention of the House. Some residents of the direct provision centre at the Kinsale Road in Cork have recently received correspondence from International Protection Accommodation Services, IPAS, stating that they are to be transferred to a disused Army...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (28 Jun 2023)

Mick Barry: ...has a policy of offering alternative accommodation to those who have a right to reside in the State after having been through the international protection process but are still living in the direct provision system that is far from their current residence (details supplied); if he will ensure that offers of alternative accommodation to those cohorts are in the locality of the direct...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: International Protection (19 Oct 2021)

Mick Barry: ...-old man from India. He is from a Muslim background. In 2018, both of his parents were killed in anti-Muslim violence. Nadim came to Ireland. He currently lives in Cork city, at the Kinsale Road direct provision centre. Nadim worked all the way through the pandemic. He worked in a hospital as a security worker. He paid his taxes. Last month, Nadim received a letter from the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: International Protection (19 Oct 2021)

Mick Barry: ...contact the man directly or have a senior official in his Department do so. The Minister of State has not replied to that question and I ask that he do so. There are nearly 7,000 people in the direct provision system and more than 8,000 asylum seekers in the country as a whole. Many of them, like Nadim and Raminder, face the threat of violence or even death if they return to where they...

Direct Provision: Statements (22 Apr 2021)

Mick Barry: ...can act quickly when it needs to. Four more years is not ambitious, and we don't accept this. The billboard refers to the Government's four-year lead-in to what it describes as the abolition of direct provision. Those young people are absolutely right in what they say, and I echo it. The Government says that direct provision will be dismantled by December 2024. However, what will...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (31 Mar 2021)

Mick Barry: .... That is not part of the arrangements and needs to be which would mean that the debate would need to be a bit longer. I am also not in favour of shunting Deputy Pringle’s very important motion on direct provision off the agenda as it should be included in it. I propose that the Business Committee would meet today and arrange the debate in such a way. On that basis we do not...

Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (Resumed) (20 Jan 2021)

Mick Barry: ...violate the right to be free from cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment. Is that someone talking about the mother and baby homes? No, it is a comment from the Irish Council for Civil Liberties, ICCL, on the direct provision system. The spirit of the mother and baby homes lives on, and the direct provision system must be ended.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Direct Provision System (30 Jul 2020)

Mick Barry: ...are calling for them to moved out at the weekend and for all of the other people to be moved out very quickly after that. There can be no waiting around for months. The hotel should be closed. Direct provision is inhumane and should be abolished. The idea that it would continue after this is not something the Government can stand over. How can the Green Party stand over that? I...

Supporting Inclusion and Combating Racism in Ireland: Statements (17 Jun 2020)

Mick Barry: I want to start by talking about State racism. Now 20 years old, the direct provision system is cruel and heartless. It deliberately puts asylum seekers into miserable living conditions to discourage others from travelling to here from outside fortress Europe, and it deliberately separates asylum seekers from the rest of Irish society, the better to make it easy to deport people whose...

Covid-19 (Justice and Equality): Statements (4 Jun 2020)

Mick Barry: ...is calling for proper human rights and equality training for State officials and that it made special mention of the need for such training for Ireland's policing and law enforcement officials. I do not have time to talk about the scandal of direct provision, nor how the housing and jobs crises are fanning the flames of racism by forcing people to compete for scarce resources. Clearly,...

Covid-19 (Justice and Equality): Statements (13 May 2020)

Mick Barry: I too want to ask the Minister questions about the Skellig Star hotel in Cahersiveen. First, I wish to make some brief points about the direct provision system in this Covid-19 crisis in general. There are 7,700 residents in direct provision. As of last Friday - the latest information we have is five days old - 149 of those people had the disease, while there were ten clusters, ten people...

Health (Covid-19): Statements (Resumed) (23 Apr 2020)

Mick Barry: ...have been denied access to their schools and libraries and have been forced to study at home. Many of those homes are overcrowded, some seriously so, leaving aside the people who are living in direct provision, young Travellers or those who are homeless. Fifth, students prepared for an exam with an idea of where the finish line would be and now it is being extended, not by a couple of...

Irish Nationality and Citizenship (Restoration of Birthright Citizenship) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (17 Jan 2019)

Mick Barry: ...politicians from the Minister's party and the other major parties. Talk about having a desire to protect the vulnerable and others from being exploited stands in sharp contrast to the reality of the direct provision system. We cannot separate the 2004 referendum from the direct provision system. The change in the citizenship laws in 2004 was aimed at those seeking asylum, who are...

Housing Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (13 Nov 2018)

Mick Barry: No they are not. We checked it at the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government last week. Women living in domestic violence shelters, 5,000 people living in direct provision, people living in emergency shelters that are not funded by local authorities, and couch surfers are not counted in the official statistics. If these groups were counted what would be the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Reports on Homelessness: Discussion (8 Nov 2018)

Mick Barry: Asylum seekers in direct provision are not included.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (10 Jul 2018)

Mick Barry: 315. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to a notice (details supplied) issued to residents at a direct provision centre in Newbridge; and if he will intervene to have the notice rescinded; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30606/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Review of Housing and Homelessness Policies and Initiatives: Local Authorities (13 Jul 2017)

Mick Barry: ...Dr. Rory Hearne and Dr. Mary Murphy from the sociology department in Maynooth University was published during the week. The authors warned that the so-called family hubs could become the next direct provision centres. I will not go into all the reasons they said that. It is self-evident in many respects. It backs up the approach that our party would take that it should be a case of...

Topical Issue Debate: Supreme Court Rulings (31 May 2017)

Mick Barry: The provision of direct provision centres has been a shameful episode in the history of the nation. A comparison has been made with the Magdalen laundries of former days and it is fair to say the centres are the Magdalen laundries of our time. I do not buy the Minister of State's argument that the fact that people are spending less time in direct provision accommodation is entirely down to...

Topical Issue Debate: Supreme Court Rulings (31 May 2017)

Mick Barry: ...in this system, and more than one third of them are children. It is a shame that successive Governments in the past 17 years have kept this system in place. I hope this is an opportunity to end the direct provision system, as well as ending the ban on the right to work for asylum seekers. I look forward to the Minister of State's comments.