Results 1-3 of 3 for "direct provision" speaker:Maurice Quinlivan

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Homeless Accommodation (13 Feb 2024)

Maurice Quinlivan: ..., family members or even your partner's parents to stay on their couch would be a dent to anyone’s pride and a blow to their confidence. These figures do not include people in domestic refuges or direct provision centres or those who are couch surfing. In Limerick, there were 344 people living in Department of housing emergency accommodation. These are people who have nowhere else...

Covid-19 (Transport and Travel): Statements (10 Feb 2021)

Maurice Quinlivan: ...if he will not restore the bus service to Carew Park. I believe the project we are speaking about will include pedestrian access, which will open up the Coonagh to Knockalisheen road and the direct provision centre in Knockalisheen, and will allow people in Moyross to feel they are not in the biggest cul-de-sac in Ireland, as they have for a number of years. A train line already goes...

Housing and Homelessness: Statements (22 Mar 2016)

Maurice Quinlivan: ...than €5 billion is worthy of serious consideration. There has been an over-reliance on the private sector to provide housing on the scale needed. This has resulted in the State almost retiring from the direct provision of housing. This ideologically-driven approach has proved disastrous. It has failed to provide the required amount of housing and has driven up prices in the...