Results 1-20 of 22 for "direct provision" speaker:Martin Kenny

Recent Arson Attacks: Statements (27 Feb 2024)

Martin Kenny: ..., and we all know that. They are a tiny number of people. The system which has evolved is one Governments have stood over for a couple of decades since Senator Michael McDowell was Minister and direct provision was first brought in as a temporary measure. The problem is that the temporary measure has grown into a mess and has continued. Successive Governments have set out a playbook...

Services for those Seeking Protection in Ireland: Statements (30 Jan 2024)

Martin Kenny: ...a building being prepared and think that it may be perhaps turned into five, six or ten apartments and that their relative will get an apartment. They then discover the building is to be used for direct provision or for Ukrainian people to stay in, which is fine. We have no problem with that but the difficulty is that it causes a huge problem to those people who find the competition for...

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

Martin Kenny: ...they await a decision from the Department of Justice. These people receive a payment of €38 per week and have their meals provided in the centre, where they are left staying for far too long. This is the direct provision system established by the Fianna Fáil-Progressive Democrats Government back in the nineties as a temporary system. The system has been expanded and...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice (Revised)
Vote 41 - Policing Authority (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised) (14 Feb 2023)

Martin Kenny: ...íordáin mentioned National Public Health Emergency Team, NPHET, and Covid-19 - the same people who were shouting at people going into injection centres are the same people who are now roaring and shouting outside direct provision centres. They are the same people leading this charge. There are people in the community who have, for many good reasons, issues with the Government...

Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Second Stage (1 Jul 2022)

Martin Kenny: ...part of the world who are in similar situations are not getting exactly the same treatment. That is an issue that needs to be dealt with. I know there are moves afoot to sort out the whole issue of direct provision and the problems associated with it. The situation has improved but there is still a fair distance to go, as I am sure the Minister will acknowledge. The problems we need...

Government Response to Situation in Ukraine: Statements (30 Mar 2022)

Martin Kenny: ...and we need to encourage and work with that. After all of this, we need to reflect on something in a European context. I have dealt with refugees for the past two decades. Many came to an old direct provision centre in Ballinamore in Leitrim for many years, and another centre opened in the past two years. Whether they are from Syria, North Africa or wherever else, when children have...

European Union Regulation: Motion (3 Feb 2022)

Martin Kenny: ...policy is not working. All of these things have to be doing their job. We in Sinn Féin have policies in those areas, which everyone is aware of. Housing, in particular, will be key to ending direct provision, which, to the Minister's credit, she has made a priority. It is worth putting on record what the Government's White Paper has stated on the matter of accommodation as it was...

Criminal Justice (Enforcement Powers) (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Second Stage (2 Sep 2020)

Martin Kenny: ..., the customers and everyone involved. That should be done as quickly as possible. There are many other sectors with much bigger problems than in the licensed trade. Many have mentioned the problems in direct provision. We also have the situation involving the meat factories. Yet the Government seems to be continuously focusing on the licensed trade. There needs to be a reality...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Direct Provision System (29 Jul 2020)

Martin Kenny: 259. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the date upon which each direct provision centre or emergency accommodation centre contract expires. [20324/20]

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

Martin Kenny: 359. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons in the direct provision system who are waiting to have a first hearing, waiting on an appeal and on a deportation order, respectively; the length of time each person had been waiting on 31 May 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11157/20]

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

Martin Kenny: 360. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the budget for the direct provision system in each of the years 2015 to 2019 and to date in 2020, in terms of administration, accommodation, travel, legal costs and so on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11158/20]

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

Martin Kenny: 361. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons approved for asylum who remain in direct provision accommodation as at 31 May 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11160/20]

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

Martin Kenny: 362. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons in the direct provision and emergency accommodation system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11161/20]

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

Martin Kenny: ...know that modern technology is used between the Prison Service and the Courts Service. It can be deployed to resolve many of these issues and that needs to be done with the utmost speed. Everyone in this House recognises that the direct provision model for asylum seekers we traditionally have had in Ireland for the past number of years has had huge problems that we must deal with. I...

Racism Affecting Ethnic Minorities in Ireland: Statements (12 Dec 2019)

Martin Kenny: ...have an international obligation to ensure that we provide for them and that the State provides for them adequately. It is vital that we do this. Of course, many of us have a difficulty with the direct provision system and the way it has evolved over the years, and many of us want to see it come to an end, but we need to see a better system put in place, not no system. We need to work...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Applications Data (3 Dec 2019)

Martin Kenny: ...from his Department, the INIS, the RIA or other agencies employed in processing the applications of asylum seekers; the reason the process is taking a long time resulting in persons spending years in direct provision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50267/19]

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

Martin Kenny: ...Minister stated, to deal with that. They are not permanent residents. They cannot be given a permanent home, they have to be given a home for the time it takes to process their application. Direct provision has evolved over the years. Many of us have been critical of that model. One of the key criticisms of it is its privatisation. It is an opportunity for a set of people to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Direct Provision and the International Protection Application Process: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)

Martin Kenny: I am not a member of the committee so I am grateful for the opportunity to contribute. There was a direct provision centre in Ballinamore, County Leitrim, for many years and I knew many of its residents. I often say that none of those residents so much as broke a window in the town in their time at the centre. They were very well integrated into the community. There were issues with the...

Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Sep 2017)

Martin Kenny: ...that people hire private carers to come to the home to look after the person in exchange for respite. That is completely inappropriate. Is the Government going to put money into the budget for the direct provision of respite by the HSE to these people? The programme for Government also states that the Government supports an increase in carer's allowance and carer's benefit. Will...