Results 1-20 of 100 for "direct provision" speaker:Bríd Smith

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Direct Provision System (17 Oct 2018)

Bríd Smith: What plans does the Minister have to end the direct provision system? It is more than three years since the McMahon report was published, which has been discussed at length in the House. Judgment was passed in the court case on the right to work, which is extremely restricted and very difficult for people in direct provision to access. I ask the Minister to comment on the latest figures on...

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

Bríd Smith: ...and I will make a statement within which there will be a few questions the answers to which I am happy to take in writing. We have been raising the question of the treatment of residents in direct provision for a month now and I want to repeat that I believe this Government has failed miserably to protect the rights of our most vulnerable during this Covid-19 crisis. I believe that...

Order of Business (21 Mar 2017)

Bríd Smith: ...global status as the champion of immigrants. He had 30 million plus hits for his speech in Washington. I invite the Taoiseach to co-sign a motion that has already been signed by 36 Deputies to end direct provision in this country. Deputy Boyd Barrett told me that he was a member of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions which recommended ending direct...

An Bille um Bearta Éigeandála ar mhaithe le Leas an Phobail (Covid-19), 2020: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Mar 2020)

Bríd Smith: ..., they may look repetitive but each of them clarifies different degrees of professional ability, including pharmacists, surgeons, doctors and nurses. There is a wealth of talent locked up inside direct provision centres that could be freed. As has been said, if the Minister can tell us a different way it can be done, it is hugely important to do so. The commitments that were made in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Direct Provision System (17 Oct 2018)

Bríd Smith: 10. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps he plans to take to end the direct provision system; and his views on recent reports regarding the number of children in the direct provision system. [42443/18]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (2 Jun 2022)

Bríd Smith: 74. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of direct provision centres that have been closed since the publication of the White Paper For Ending Direct Provision. [28428/22]

Direct Provision: Statements (30 Mar 2017)

Bríd Smith: I welcome those who are advocating for an end to direct provision and those who are in direct provision and who are present in the Gallery. I also welcome the debate. We have tabled a motion to end direct provision on the Dáil agenda and it has been signed by 37 Members to date. Unfortunately, we do not have a great deal of Private Member's time in which to take the motion but I am...

EU Migration and Refugee Crisis: Statements (28 Apr 2016)

Bríd Smith: ...one sows war weapons, one reaps war refugees. It is a good way to put it. To batten down the hatches and say one is not letting anybody else in is shameful. I wish to make a final point. The direct provision system in this country gives us a shameful record. There are 7,900 people in direct provision and over 55% of them have been in direct provision for over five years....

Priority Questions: Direct Provision System (22 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: Will the Tánaiste make a statement on any proposals or plans she has to end the inhumane direct provision model that operates under her control? There are 4,000 to 5,000 people living under this system, 1,700 children growing up within it and more than 400 children already born in Ireland in the system. Will the Tánaiste make a statement on any plans to end direct provision?

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (7 Jul 2022)

Bríd Smith: 109. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to the fact that, almost 18 months after publication of the White Paper on Ending Direct Provision, a record 11,689 people, including nearly 2,800 children are currently living in direct provision, an increase of more than 40 per cent on the same time in 2021; the actions he will...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (19 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: 337. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason that was used by her Department in 2000 when the decision was taken to commence the direct provision system; the studies, risk assessments and policy deliberations and so on that were conducted by her Department at the time; the advice that the advisors Government and external advisors relied upon to support the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (26 May 2022)

Bríd Smith: 293. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the rationale that was used by his Department in 2000 when the decision was taken to commence the direct provision system; if he will detail and supply the studies, risk assessments and policy deliberations and so on that were conducted by his Department at the time (details supplied); the advice that the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (10 Nov 2021)

Bríd Smith: 177. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a company contracted to run a direct provision centre in Salthill, County Galway has been reported as serving food for asylum seekers in plastic bags; his views on whether this is dehumanising and completely inappropriate given the State funding of such...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Direct Provision Centres (26 May 2020)

Bríd Smith: All members have been sent the submission from the Movement of Asylum Seekers in Ireland that contains many photographs of the interiors of direct provision centres. As soon as I saw how cramped and crowded and on top of each other people were, it reminded me of playing house as a kid, with bricks and stones and lumps of planks, and of pushing everything together so we could all lie down...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Direct Provision System (2 Jun 2022)

Bríd Smith: We agree on many things and I am sure the Minister does not get verbal or even officially written opposition to the commitment to end direct provision. The problem is that the Minister is in a Government with parties that are dominated by their links to international finance, developers and the idea of private property for rent and ownership. They have handed over public land and facilities...

Direct Provision: Statements (22 Apr 2021)

Bríd Smith: I support what the previous speaker said about the direct provision system. However, in the limited time I have I wish to go a little off message. It is absolutely true that racism and far-right politics can gain from playing on the scarcity of housing in this country. In my area, leaflets are already being distributed, which state that we must look after and house our own first. It...

Covid-19 (Employment Affairs and Social Protection): Statements (20 May 2020)

Bríd Smith: ...? I ask the Minister to extend maternity leave and benefit for the duration of the crisis in the same way the Government is extending the courtesy to other areas of society. My final question is on direct provision. Will the Minister explain in detail, if she can, why the pandemic unemployment payment was denied to workers living in direct provision who lost their jobs in this...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Mar 2022)

Bríd Smith: Yesterday I attended a protest at the Department of Justice for a woman. She and her husband have three children, one of whom was born in this country. She lived eight years in direct provision. She is from Pakistan and has just completed her degree in early childhood education. She has a deportation order hanging over her head. As somebody who believes in a world sans frontièresfor...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (17 Oct 2018)

Bríd Smith: 63. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if an investigation into the death in direct provision of a person (details supplied) will be commissioned; the circumstances in which the person was accommodated; if the reason the person was placed in a male provision centre will be determined; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42444/18]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Direct Provision System (17 Oct 2018)

Bríd Smith: ...State wants to hear views on alternative systems. I can think of one. Offering immediately shelter, food and safety to children and their parents who come here is a challenge, but leaving them in direct provision accommodation for up to seven years is absolutely obscene. There is an alternative to the system, namely, not having the meeting of the needs of the homeless compete with the...