Results 1-20 of 40 for "direct provision" speaker:Louise O'Reilly

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

Louise O'Reilly: ...and neglect by successive Governments are among those most severely impacted by the housing and accommodation crisis. The housing crisis is the reason thousands of people are trapped in the hell of direct provision when they could and should be able to move on. Direct provision was a temporary solution that has endured for decades. When the Government proposes another temporary...

Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Second Stage (10 Nov 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: .... Fingal Communities Against Racism is a group of people doing what we can to help in our area. Sometimes, that means gathering up clothes and supplies to bring to people who are living in direct provision centres that are inhumane, which I think is the kindest way I can put it. Sometimes, it is about helping out with a language resource or some supports for new members of our...

Covid-19: Reframing the Challenge, Continuing our Recovery and Reconnecting: Statements (21 Oct 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: ...he was Minister for Health or, indeed, when he was Taoiseach. The list goes on. In the few minutes remaining to me, I want to raise with the Minister the case of Mr. Nadim Hussain, a man who is on hunger strike in a direct provision centre. This young man is scheduled to be deported. I will not get into the rights and wrongs of this case, but I want to say that in the midst of a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (1 Jul 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: 429. To ask the Minister for Health when residents of direct provision centres will receive their Covid-19 vaccine given that their need is particular acute due to rules prohibiting re-entry to centres after a resident has spent a night away means that residents are subject to 14-days quarantine; if his attention has been drawn to the difficulties this is causing; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (18 May 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: 597. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to the fact that persons are exiting direct provision without any supports in place to assist with accessing housing; if information will be provided in relation to the supports that are in place for persons as they exit from direct provision; and if he will make a statement on...

Direct Provision: Statements (22 Apr 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: ...I had more time to be involved. I encourage the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, if he has the time, to engage with that group and the wonderful work it does in my area. When Fianna Fáil introduced direct provision in 2000, it made very sure it was a business-type model. It has since grown into a big business for catering contractors, as has been mentioned, and other companies that...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (25 Feb 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: 198. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to a protest in direct provision centre (details supplied); if he will ensure the person engaged in the protest receives the necessary health supports, physical and mental; the steps he is taking to address the failures with the direct provision system and move towards a humane,...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response Final Report: Motion (19 Nov 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: ...next phase, one of which is the restarting of non-Covid care. We can all agree that Covid-19 exposed many of the challenges and deficiencies in the health system. I will touch on three issues - direct provision, waiting lists and, briefly, the issue of image-based abuse. Potentially hundreds of women and girls have been impacted by the leaking and sharing of images of them online...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (29 Sep 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: 685. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department will conduct an investigation into the management of the contracts of a company (details supplied) for direct provision centres in counties Monaghan, Cavan, Meath, Louth and Dublin in the aftermath of the death of a resident in a direct provision centre in Monaghan following their placement in a...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (29 Sep 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: 686. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department will ensure that the quality of food in direct provision centres is child friendly, palatable and meets nutritional guidelines for daily nutritional intake in view of the many reports and photographic evidence of the atrocious meals provided to persons in direct provision centres nationally. [26771/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (29 Sep 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: 687. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department will ensure there is a fair complaints procedure for persons in direct provision centres in view of the fact that they have no or very little recourse to respond to abuse of power or neglect by staff, managers or owners of direct provision centres. [26772/20]

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

Louise O'Reilly: ...To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to the issues raised in correspondence by a group (details supplied) regarding health and safety risks in a direct provision centre in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11108/20]

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

Louise O'Reilly: 367. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will issue an official response to correspondence from a group (details supplied) regarding serious issues in the direct provision centre in a town; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11188/20]

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

Louise O'Reilly: 355. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of deaths in direct provision and emergency accommodation centres in each of the years 2015 to 2019 and to date in 2020, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11114/20]

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

Louise O'Reilly: 365. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of deaths in direct provision and emergency accommodation centres in each of the years 2015 to 2019 and to date in 2020, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11170/20]

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

Louise O'Reilly: 356. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of deaths associated with Covid-19 in direct provision and emergency accommodation centres; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11115/20]

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

Louise O'Reilly: 366. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of deaths associated with Covid-19 in direct provision and emergency accommodation centres; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11171/20]

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

Louise O'Reilly: 364. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the outcome of contacts by his Department with asylum seekers living in direct provision centres regarding the opportunities available to them to assist in the effort against Covid-19; the number recruited to the health service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11169/20]

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

Louise O'Reilly: 368. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there has been a follow-up or investigation into reports of alleged assaults on residents at a direct provision centre (details supplied). [11189/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (16 Jun 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: 520. To ask the Minister for Health the number of residents in direct provision centres who have been exposed to Covid-19 and require a test; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10452/20]