Results 1-12 of 12 for "direct provision" speaker:Fintan Warfield

Seanad: Housing for All: Statements (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)

Fintan Warfield: ...children in emergency accommodation, funded by the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage. We think the real figure is closer to 16,000 when you take into account the 4,500 people in direct provision who have a legal right to stay in our country but who are trapped in direct provision. We must also include the number of rough sleepers and of women and children in...

Seanad: Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Bill 2022: Second Stage (27 Oct 2022)

Fintan Warfield: ...modern reporting methods were introduced. Sinn Féin has pointed out that the real figure for emergency accommodation is closer to 16,000 when one takes into account the following: 4,500 people trapped in direct provision but have a legal right to stay in this country; the number of rough sleepers; and the number of women and children in Tusla-funded centres who have fled domestic and...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Mar 2022)

Fintan Warfield: ...to take over the café on Merrion Square. I was absolutely dismayed at the decision by a leading cultural institution to offer its café to a company that profits from the inhumane system of direct provision, and even more so, because it completely undermines the work of the National Gallery of Ireland in its diversity, access and inclusion programme that is led by the very good...

Committee on Public Petitions: Update on Direct Provision: The Ombudsman (11 May 2021)

Fintan Warfield: ...convention centre. I thank the witnesses for the presentation they have made. I missed the opening statements but I have read them. I refer to the developments that came with the White Paper on direct provision around the right to work. I apologise if it has been mentioned while I was absent. Does the witnesses' office deal with complaints from asylum seekers in cases where they have...

Seanad: Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and certain related Matters) Records, and another Matter, Bill 2020: Second Stage (14 Oct 2020)

Fintan Warfield: ...with any findings, recommendations or reports such as this. Does anyone in this House doubt that some day in the future we will see a commission of investigation into the shameful practice of direct provision? I hope that when that report is released the associated records and testimonies are not locked away because when that happens we can never learn from the mistakes and injustices of...

Seanad: Period Poverty: Motion (27 Mar 2019)

Fintan Warfield: ...homeless. The State must accept that it is not doing enough here. The current situation robs people of dignity and agency. Homeless Period Ireland is acting in the absence of effective action by the Government. Direct provision has been mentioned. I wish to add my voice to the anxiety that Senators have regarding people in direct provision. I expect the Minister of State will address...

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Nov 2018)

Fintan Warfield: "The only thing in common between us is that we are all depressed." These are the words of a person in the direct provision centre in Mount Trenchard who shares a room with seven other people. This person described it as an open prison, a place where people forget their dreams and where their CV has gaps totalling years on end. The person said it changes a person completely. We have...

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Nov 2018)

Fintan Warfield: ...of State, Deputy Stanton, comes in here he says we need solutions. Is the Leader telling me that the wherewithal does not exist within the Department of Justice and Equality to redesign the direct provision system?

Seanad: Mental Health Services: Motion (4 Oct 2017)

Fintan Warfield: ...health services must be done in parallel with addressing injustice and enabling people to live at peace with their lives, realising a person's right to a home, to marry the person they love, to live free from direct provision, to access gender recognition, to modern universal health care for women and to decency and democracy at work. These are all affected by political choices and many...

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Jun 2017)

Fintan Warfield: ...love. We can and must continue to build a new Ireland in that spirit, an Ireland that recognises a person's right to a home, marriage equality, gender recognition, Traveller ethnicity, freedom from direct provision, decency and democracy at work. The LGBT community has a role to play in all of that. I wish all Members a happy pride week and encourage them to join their local pride...

Seanad: Gender Recognition (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (10 May 2017)

Fintan Warfield: ...from exploring any additional topics or questions in that review. When we recognise a person's right to a home, to marriage equality, to gender recognition, to Traveller ethnicity, to live free from direct provision, when we recognise a citizen's right to a universal health service, to decency and democracy at work, when we achieve access to basic rights such as these, we will not only...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Crawford Art Gallery: Chairperson Designate (26 Apr 2017)

Fintan Warfield: I commend the gallery in regard to those on direct provision. Direct provision is one of the greatest scandals of our time. It is hard to imagine someone being on €19.50 a week with no access to cultural participation. One could not afford an instrument or membership of a club. Senator Marie-Louise O'Donnell mentioned how we participate in cultural life. What the Crawford is doing...