Results 1-5 of 5 for "direct provision" speaker:Mary Seery Kearney

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Challenges Facing Refugee and Migrant Children in Ireland: Discussion (27 Jun 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: ...project operating out of the mosque on the South Circular Road. The women there have done the most amazing work, especially around Ramadan, when they provide packages to families who are living in direct provision accommodation. Reference was made to the practical nuts and bolts of everyday living. The fast is from one hour before sunrise to one hour after sunset. It has been mentioned...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Integration and Refugee Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (30 May 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: .... I have a small enough question but the witnesses will see where I am going with it. For many years – too long according to the programme for Government and all of our intent – we have had direct provision centres. Many of them are in rural locations. Is that the case?

Seanad: Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Second Stage (11 Jul 2022)

Mary Seery Kearney: ...line upholding a democracy and the right to autonomy of a country. We should be respectful and grateful of that. It is not only them. There are many other such countries. There are people in direct provision here who also require a similar response from us. I am mindful of making sure that groups I know in Dublin receive the benefit of the back-to-school allowance and have access to it...

Seanad: Leaving Certificate 2020: Statements (8 Oct 2020)

Mary Seery Kearney: ...there are not many secondary school teachers who teach Arabic, and we need to put a mechanism in place because, by and large, the schools that approached me did so on behalf of students living in direct provision who did not have recourse to the courts. We need to anticipate what will happen next year. I wish to address the issue of special needs assistants. I am aware that the...

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

Mary Seery Kearney: ...residents have taken, and continue to take, the action they have. I appeal to them to cease. It is a statement of their sheer desperation to be heard that they would take such serious action. Direct provision as a means of catering for the process of asylum seekers is a challenging structure, juxtaposed as it is to a general housing shortage. The trajectory for some time now has been...