Results 1-5 of 5 for "direct provision" speaker:Róisín Garvey

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of Employment Permits (Consolidation and Amendment) Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Mar 2021)

Róisín Garvey: ...the will is there, which is great; 10,000 per year is a good figure to aim towards. We now need to figure out how to do it. I know the Ministers, Deputies McEntee and O'Gorman, are working on the direct provision centre issue. It occurs to me that we have more than 5,000 asylum seekers. Many of them are extremely well qualified. If we are stuck for qualified people in the workforce,...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Feb 2021)

Róisín Garvey: ...importance of rural transport. It might not have the footfall we have in urban areas but he recognises the importance of it at the same time. It was great to see this morning's news on the White Paper on direct provision. I congratulate those I know who have been working with asylum seekers for many years. They were themselves asylum seekers who, after they got asylum, turned back to...

Seanad: Skellig Star Direct Provision Centre and the Future of Direct Provision: Statements (30 Jul 2020)

Róisín Garvey: ...Youth Affairs are just as concerned as all the people in this room about the current issue that has been landed in their laps. I will read from a letter by a group of asylum seekers staying in a direct provision centre because their voice is not in this Chamber. It states, "Dear Ministers and IPAS. We are the residents of the direct provision centre in ...". I do not even need to name...

Seanad: Skellig Star Direct Provision Centre and the Future of Direct Provision: Statements (30 Jul 2020)

Róisín Garvey: ...by asking to be transferred to a better place. I have worked with refugees, including Tibetan refugees, in a number of different settings. I was doing work in this area as far back as 1995, when direct provision was first experimented with in County Clare. People were getting stopped at Shannon Airport, due to American immigration requirements, and they were taken to Ennis. That was 25...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Jul 2020)

Róisín Garvey: ...water and that it would never do in Ireland. Now everyone is buying water all the time. It is a completely normal thing to buy plastic bottles of water. People who are on low incomes, people in direct provision and single mothers are struggling to buy water because they cannot afford it and they are then left with poor quality water for baby food or washing their clothes. Some towns in...