Results 1-20 of 21 for "direct provision" speaker:Carol Nolan

Immigration: Motion [Private Members] (6 Dec 2023)

Carol Nolan: ...a promise made in April 2021 to end the use of non-designated commercial hotels for accommodating International Protection (IP) residents, leading to ongoing system failures on practical, economic, and legal grounds according to the Ombudsman for Children's October 2023 Special Report on the Safety and Welfare of Children in Direct Provision; — the grave overreliance on the private...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Asylum Seekers (21 Feb 2023)

Carol Nolan: ..., Disability, Integration and Youth if he will explain the thinking behind his decision in February 2021, to write tweets in 47 different languages publicising the report recommending the end of direct provision and proposals to provide "own-door" accommodation to asylum seekers; and if he will outline the contribution this made to the number seeking asylum in Ireland in the intervening...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Bodies (1 Dec 2022)

Carol Nolan: .... To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of the work being undertaken to establish a refugee agency as per the White Paper recommendations on ending direct provision; if any persons have been interviewed for positions within the agency; when he expects the agency to be become operational; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60036/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (29 Nov 2022)

Carol Nolan: 511. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if an application has been received or made regarding the establishment of a direct provision centre or accommodation centre for international protection applicants or beneficiaries of the Temporary Protection Directive in Cadamstown, County Offaly; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59314/22]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Jun 2022)

Carol Nolan: ...we will never find a meaningful solution to an already overwhelming crisis. Government can produce all the strategies it likes around housing and it can commit to implementing White Papers, ending direct provision and ensuring that nobody, regardless of nationality or origin, is left to sleep on hotel floors but all of this is utterly meaningless if we do not find a way to make the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Asylum Seekers (26 Apr 2022)

Carol Nolan: 1115. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason the Reception and Integration Agency ceased publishing detailed monthly reports regarding direct provision and asylum in Ireland which were routinely published from 2004 to 2018; if there are plans to make such detailed information reports available at any point in the future; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (31 Mar 2022)

Carol Nolan: ..., Integration and Youth the costs incurred by International Protection Accommodation Services for taxis and private transport hire to transport international protection applicants to either a direct provision centre or emergency hotel accommodation following their arrival in the State from 2011 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17241/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (24 Nov 2021)

Carol Nolan: 133. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to claims regarding alleged sexual assaults being perpetrated against residents of direct provision centres and International Protection Appeals Tribunal run accommodation (details supplied); the number of such alleged claims that have been reported to his Department from 1...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (21 Oct 2021)

Carol Nolan: ..., Disability, Integration and Youth the breakdown of the measures that will be supported by the allocation of €28 million in Budget 2022 to implement reforms set out in the White Paper to End Direct Provision and to Establish a New International Protection Support Service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51868/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (21 Sep 2021)

Carol Nolan: 489. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she is advancing proposals to offer leave to remain to persons who have spent more than two years in direct provision as part of efforts to reduce the current backlog of applications; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44654/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Direct Provision System (3 Jun 2021)

Carol Nolan: ...of the inter-Departmental work engaged in by his Department with the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth with respect to the delivery of accommodation for those in direct provision in addition to the other accommodation commitments provided for in the White Paper on Ending Direct Provision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30305/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (3 Jun 2021)

Carol Nolan: ...Youth the status of the inter-Departmental work engaged in by his Department with the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage with respect to the delivery of accommodation for those in direct provision in addition to the other accommodation commitments provided for in the White Paper on Ending Direct Provision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30306/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (3 Jun 2021)

Carol Nolan: 318. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated costs of translating the White Paper on Ending Direct Provision into Irish, Albanian, Arabic, French, Georgian, Somali and Urdu; the service providers contracted for this purpose; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30307/21]

Questions on Promised Legislation (31 May 2018)

Carol Nolan: The programme for Government states:Long durations in direct provision are acknowledged to have a negative impact on family life. [This Government is] committed to reforming the direct provision system, with particular focus on families and children. Is the Tánaiste committed to supporting children who have become victims of such detention? Does he accept that a 14 year old who has...

Questions on Promised Legislation (31 May 2017)

Carol Nolan: ...by the International Protection Act 2015. It also prohibits asylum seekers from seeking or entering employment, or being employed or otherwise engaged in any gainful work or occupation. The direct provision system is a bad system that should have been scrapped a long time ago. It keeps thousands of people trapped in a process that is not dehumanising and degrading. It is also a costly...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision Data (11 Apr 2017)

Carol Nolan: 127. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons who are currently in direct provision; the number of persons granted asylum over each of the past ten years; the waiting times to be granted asylum; the number of persons who have been refused asylum; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17906/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Expenditure (11 Apr 2017)

Carol Nolan: 204. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of providing 100 higher education places for students of returning emigrants or those that came through the direct provision service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17775/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Admissions Data (11 Apr 2017)

Carol Nolan: 240. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students from direct provision that have been offered places in higher education through the specific pathway offered by his Department each year since it was established; the number that have applied each year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17813/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (11 Oct 2016)

Carol Nolan: 174. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students that have applied and availed of funding under the pilot scheme for those who have come through the direct provision system since it was established; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29739/16]