Results 1-9 of 9 for "direct provision" speaker:Sharon Keogan

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Nov 2023)

Sharon Keogan: ...Government thinking? Is it listening to the people on the ground? There are over 13,000 people homeless and 97,171 on the local authority housing lists, some waiting over 15 years. We have 25,000 in direct provision centres. I know of one man who is in there for 17 years. Where are the own-doors for all these people? We have family homes overcrowded with second generations living in...

Seanad: Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Statements (22 Feb 2023)

Sharon Keogan: ...and logistics, we are limited in our ability to adequately care for the people we take in and, as we take more in, that ability is stretched to breaking. In 2020, the Government stated it would end direct provision. It has since had the honesty to state that it would no longer be possible to achieve that within the allotted timeframe due to the requirement to handle the processing and...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jan 2023)

Sharon Keogan: ...decried as being uncaring, unsympathetic and even xenophobic. Over roughly the same period, from 2021 to 2023, the number of people living in international protection accommodation services, IPAS, direct provision accommodation has more than doubled from 7,000 to over 19,000. The vast majority of these applicants for international protection are from Georgia, north Africa and sub-Saharan...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 May 2022)

Sharon Keogan: ...village with a population of only a couple of thousand people. Needless to say, the plans have raised a few eyebrows and it does not sit easy with me. I am 100% against the development of any more direct provision-style housing or camps. I believe that an even spread of refugee intake according to the ability of a local area to adequately care for them is the best way forward. The...

Seanad: Support to Ukraine: Motion (30 Mar 2022)

Sharon Keogan: ...incentive scheme to make use of these buildings. After all, it is for a good cause. I must wonder, however, if all the homeless people in Ireland are not also a good cause. Are those already in direct provision in this country not a good cause too? Are refugees from conflicts in other parts of the world also not a good cause? Such a scheme to make use of housing would be an excellent...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Feb 2022)

Sharon Keogan: ...in some areas. To reflect this, a ‘B’ grade was awarded on the commitment to create new pathways for long-term undocumented people and their children. There were three ‘B-’ grades for work to end the Direct Provision system, for reform of the childcare system and for the long-awaited guidelines on reduced timetables. [...] Things were less stellar at the...

Seanad: Deportation Moratorium (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Second Stage (9 Dec 2020)

Sharon Keogan: ...then is that they end up being taken by Tusla into the care system. Some of those children may stay in the care system, even without having any legal status, when they turn 18 years old and go into direct provision. Some social workers do take out international protection orders for the children but some do not. My concern is for those children and to be a voice for those children who...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Sustainable Development Goals and Departmental Priorities: Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (3 Nov 2020)

Sharon Keogan: ...by the Department. Why is it under review? What will be published and what will be amended in that report before publication? While I welcome the programme for Government statement on ending direct provision, has the Government just put a fancy new name on it with "international protection accommodation"? There are currently 7,000 people in direct provision accommodation and 30% of...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (31 Jul 2020)

Sharon Keogan: ...taken to improve the governance and management? I am calling on the Government to do better. It is sad to see that it took action from our Senators yesterday to deliver an answer for those living in direct provision in the Skellig Star Hotel. I am calling on the Government to do better for those in direct provision. The Government is miles away from where it ought to be on other...