Results 1-8 of 8 for "direct provision" speaker:Danny Healy-Rae

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Asylum Seekers (21 Apr 2021)

Danny Healy-Rae: 1254. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the position regarding direct provision accommodation for asylum seekers (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20232/21]

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

Danny Healy-Rae: ...to be part of our community and I am glad to say that I appreciate them, their work and the contribution they make to life in Killarney and around Kerry. On the refugees that we bring in to direct provision, I have been saying for years that the system is wrong. When a whole family is in a room, and I have seen that - six beds shoved together in a room - that is not a healthy...

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

Danny Healy-Rae: ...work to help control the virus. They are to be commended for their response to the call to control the virus. I was not here when the session commenced but I heard the Minister mention inspections of direct provision centres and state that many of them are unsuitable. I have always maintained that Cahersiveen direct provision centre is not suitable. It was pointed out to me that the...

Covid-19 (Taoiseach): Statements (27 May 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...few years, I know what it means for the person who is dying. Those people surely could not understand why there was nobody with them. I also call on the Taoiseach to look at what has happened with the direct provision centre in Cahersiveen, all the inconsistencies and the things that should have happened. It is clear now that the opening of a direct provision centre there should never...

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

Danny Healy-Rae: ...and Minister of State because the first I knew of this, like all the other elected representatives, was on the Monday before the asylum seekers came to Cahersiveen. The Government did open this direct provision centre in Cahersiveen. When it was proved wrong in many other parts of the country last year, it admitted it was wrong and that there should be proper consultation before that...

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (30 Apr 2020)

Danny Healy-Rae: I want to ask the Minister about the direct provision centre in Cahirciveen. I appreciate that Deputy Niamh Smith asked a similar question. I ask the Minister to be concise, if he can. Seeing as this centre was sanctioned by the Department of Justice and Equality against and without the approval of the HSE or the Department of Health, will the Minister now close that centre and move these...

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

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get an opportunity to talk on this topic. We have had direct provision centres in Killarney and Kenmare for many years. Many of these people have come and gone. They have moved on. I have a problem when too many of them are crammed in together, which is something I have seen. Some of the situations are very tough. Problems arise when a whole family is put into a room. The...

Direct Provision: Statements (30 Mar 2017)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...many years does not have the required houses, facility or staff to deal with refugees and no extra staff have been deployed to cater for them. The refugees we have agreed to accept and those in direct provision are all human beings. It is not right for a mother, father, teenagers and babies to be living in one room. An asylum seeker could be in the country for seven, eight or nine...