Results 1-14 of 14 for "direct provision" speaker:Marc Ó Cathasaigh

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 26 - Education (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: ...on the way. It is a source of recurring frustration, particularly given that on my count there are four different streams of school transport, between the transport for Ukrainian students, those in direct provision centres, special education and the general school transport system. I hope the review includes some sort of streamlining of that so that we are getting the best bang for our...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Public Service Performance Report 2022: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: ...these parallel but overlapping services. It might be that the Ukrainian kids are getting dropped to school on a school bus that has ten empty places. It might that there is a bus coming from the direct provision centre. It might be that there is a bus coming to service the need of a child with a disability. Then we have the regular school transport bus. Again, it feels like we have...

Working Group of Committee Chairmen: Engagement with An Taoiseach (22 Jun 2023)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: ...to every child in the State. We also called for the Government to consider making the universal child benefit payment, which is made to other children within the State, available to people in direct provision, where we know there is a great deal of poverty.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (8 Dec 2022)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 296. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding the regularisation of a person (details supplied) who has been living in direct provision for more than five years but who is omitted from the recent and welcome regularisation scheme for undocumented persons; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [61471/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (3 Jun 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 135. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if progress has been made to reduce the length of time for processing applications for persons who have been in direct provision for over two years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28454/21]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Direct Provision System (27 May 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Concerns were raised during the previous two lockdowns that inspections of direct provision centres were done over the phone. This is very much a suboptimal alternative when one considers the vulnerability and exposure to risk experienced by people living in direct provision centres. Will the Minister detail the in-person inspections of direct provision centres during level 5 of the public...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Direct Provision System (27 May 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: ...pressures on what is an already congregated setting, particularly in light of school closures. While allowances would not go so far as to be able to have social coffees every day, people in direct provision were very much limited during lockdown in what they could do. Have any of those additional pressures on the congregated setting been reflected in the reports? Have we managed to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Direct Provision System (27 May 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: On the European Commission guidelines into which we voluntarily opted, will the Minister comment on the benchmark we are setting in direct provision? One of the recurring messages I have got from my interactions with people in direct provision is about being able to prepare their own food. I know progress has been made in that area. Will the Minster add a general comment on where we are in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Direct Provision System (27 May 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: ...to get this commitment into the programme for Government and how hard he has worked within his Ministry since to deliver the White Paper, which, I believe, is finally providing a pathway to ending direct provision, which has been a blight on our nation for the past 21 years. I have taught some of the children who have lived in direct provision. I have taught children who were born in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Direct Provision System (27 May 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: ...as an endpoint, the Minister referenced a number of initiatives, such as the implementation team, the programme board and the external advisory group. In order that the people currently within the direct provision can see light at the end of the tunnel, are there specific timelines for any of those elements in order that we can map progress and tick off the different stages as we move...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Direct Provision System (27 May 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: 40. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the progress made to date on the implementation of the white paper to end direct provision and replace it with a new international protection support service; the expected timeline for the implementation of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28453/21]

Direct Provision: Statements (22 Apr 2021)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I add my voice to those who welcomed the recent publication of the White Paper to end direct provision and to establish a new international protection support service, a move long overdue and widely anticipated by people who have lived, and still live, in the direct provision system. Ending direct provision was one of the major priorities for the Green Party when we negotiated the programme...

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

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: ...must again emphasise, as I did two weeks ago in this Chamber, the needs of some of our more marginalised communities. We are hearing reports of illness establishing a foothold in the Traveller community and in direct provision centres. We must begin to provide people in these settings the opportunity to self isolate effectively in order to stem the spread of the virus in what are often...

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)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: ...see our renters in the Bill, the people worried about losing the roofs over their heads. We need a moratorium on evictions during this crisis. I do not see our homeless here or our Traveller population, our prisoners or those in direct provision, people who by dint of circumstance may not be able to practice social distancing or cocooning. These are some of the most vulnerable in our...