Results 1-12 of 12 for "direct provision" speaker:Gary Gannon

Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2024)

Gary Gannon: ...Would he recoil as we accused their advocates of misinformation in presenting these scared people's fears of cold, disease, harassment or lack of nourishment in these isolated encampments of tents and tarpaulin? Direct provision will have been in existence for 25 years in 2025. Again, I will not personalise it but certainly throughout at least 15 of those years, I have walked alongside...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 Mar 2023)

Gary Gannon: The Children's Rights Alliance annual report card indicates a significant decrease in the quality of conditions experienced by children living in direct provision. The rating fell from a B to a D grade in just a year. I appreciate the complexities of the past year but children are living in temporary accommodation centres throughout the country that are grossly unsuitable, with no...

Gender-based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (19 Jan 2022)

Gary Gannon: ...and Youth, we had a debate only before this on the legacy of mother and baby homes. We see the horrendous injustice of the State and start to see it replicated elsewhere. That continues today in direct provision. Education is somewhere where we can intervene with young men very early on. That starts with the means by which we teach them. A couple of months ago, my party brought...

Social Welfare Bill 2021: Second Stage (3 Dec 2021)

Gary Gannon: ...able to access antigen tests, which will place them and society as a whole at risk. I strongly encourage the Minster to take control of this issue because it will have ramifications. The weekly expenses allowance for those living in direct provision were not increased. The €5 increase to core social welfare payments, which is itself inadequate, does not apply to this payment...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (9 Nov 2021)

Gary Gannon: 498. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his knowledge of the concerns surrounding health and safety of a direct provision centre (details supplied); if his attention has been drawn to complaints regarding the standards of care shown in the centre including from residents and advocacy groups such as an organisation (details supplied); and his views on...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Direct Provision System (21 Oct 2021)

Gary Gannon: 237. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the rates of daily expenses allowance for those who are in direct provision has been increased by €5 per week as part of the announcements of the increases in core social welfare rates for Budget 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51792/21]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Nov 2020)

Gary Gannon: ...They saved lives during the pandemic - now they're facing deportation from Ireland". The story related to two of our healthcare workers from Zimbabwe who are facing deportation. Some 160 people in direct provision are currently working in the healthcare system with a sword of Damocles hanging above their head. Given the fact that we are going through a pandemic, that we said we are all...

Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and certain related Matters) Records, and another Matter, Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Second Stage (21 Oct 2020)

Gary Gannon: ..., would be deemed unconscionable. Does the Minister not see that there is a continuum in terms of the mother and baby homes, Magdalen laundries, asylums and industrial schools that leads right up to direct provision centres? There is a continuum that leads up to the fact that the most vulnerable group in our society, even today, are lone parents who are statistically at risk of...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (9 Jun 2020)

Gary Gannon: 250. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the way in which persons in direct provision are being supported in terms of being able to social distance, PPE provision and online tools and internet that is vital at this time for education, well-being and communication. [10361/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (9 Jun 2020)

Gary Gannon: 679. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the Covid-19 payment will be reinstated to asylum seekers in direct provision; if an increase to the rate of the daily expenses allowance will be reconsidered; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10359/20]

Social Protection (Covid-19): Statements (2 Apr 2020)

Gary Gannon: ...concern that the State is continuing to require large numbers of people who are seeking international protection to live in shared bedrooms and to share sanitary and eating facilities within the direct provision system, thereby preventing many people in that system from socially distancing in accordance with Government advice. They want to avoid contracting Covid-19 and passing the virus...

An Bille Sláinte (Caomhnú agus Cosaint agus Bearta Éigeandála Eile Ar Mhaithe Le Leas an Phobail), 2020: An Dara Céim - Health (Preservation and Protection and other Emergency Measures in the Public Interest) Bill 2020: Second Stage (19 Mar 2020)

Gary Gannon: ...will impact, first and foremost, those who have been made vulnerable by our system. Such people include those who are already sick, those without a safe home or any home at all and those who are in direct provision or overcrowded Traveller accommodation. People working in hospitals, providing essential care and cleaning services will be among the first affected, as will those who are...