Results 1-15 of 15 for "direct provision" speaker:Seán Crowe

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (13 Jan 2021)

Seán Crowe: 942. To ask the Minister for Health the number of Covid-19 infections of direct provision centre residents recorded; and the number of outbreaks recorded in direct provision centres. [1151/21]

A Better World: Ireland's Policy for International Development: Statements (11 Apr 2019)

Seán Crowe: .... We can deliver better public services and housing for Irish people and also improve our response to the biggest refugee crisis since the Second World War. We also need to end the disgraceful policy on direct provision, for which there is cross-party support, and set up a new asylum process in Ireland which will have human rights at its core. We need to oppose the continued EU funding...

United States Immigration Policy: Motion (20 Jun 2018)

Seán Crowe: ...Ireland's opposition to this policy of separation and the caging of children directly with the US Government. There is also a responsibility on us to review our own immigration policies. Ireland's direct provision system is clearly a gross violation of people's human's rights and should be dismantled immediately. Many people have been languishing in this repressive system for years...

Report of Joint Committee on Justice and Equality on Immigration, Asylum and the Refugee Crisis: Motion (28 Sep 2017)

Seán Crowe: ...tells them they are being brought into custody with the possibility of being put on an airplane to God knows where. I join other Deputies in commending the committee's recommendation that Ireland’s system of direct provision should not be more than a short-term measure. It is unacceptable for individuals to be living within the system on a long-term basis. I think there is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Syrian Conflict: United Nations High Commission for Refugees (26 Jan 2017)

Seán Crowe: ...of what we need to do in the future? Ms O'Hara stated the Irish response had been modest. We would all like to increase it. We must learn from what has not worked in the past, for example, direct provision, and take new and different approaches. How important will this be, particularly for politicians?

Priority Questions: Humanitarian Access (25 Oct 2016)

Seán Crowe: ...public representatives and that the people we represented were informed of where the people in question would go, how they would be supported and how they would live and that they would not be stuck in direct provision centres for three, five or ten years, which is what some families have been put through. It is about looking outside the box to try to redouble our efforts to help the...

Syrian Conflict: Statements (20 Oct 2016)

Seán Crowe: ...from the Irish public to house and support refugees. The Government needs to be up-front about how it is responding to the refugee crisis, and involving communities and NGOs, not hiding refugees in hotels or direct provision centres on the outskirts of towns. Ireland has a part to play in increasing international pressure to end the war, but we also have humanitarian and moral...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: UN Migration Summit: Discussion (28 Jul 2016)

Seán Crowe: ...receive between €6,000 and €10,000 per resettled person. It almost seems that there is a blanket ban on information regarding how it is spent in Europe. I would be concerned if it were invested in direct provision, for example. I do not think that is the right area. Are there concerns in respect of Europe? Is it a question of building borders? Where is this money being...

European Council Meeting: Statements (7 Oct 2015)

Seán Crowe: ...refugees. However, the other 3,500 will come to Ireland under the Irish refugee protection programme and will instead seek refugee status when they arrive. Will they be forced into the disgraceful direct provision system or a similar programme with a different name? This is everyone's concern. Given that direct provision has failed many people, we do not want people to go through the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Migration Policy and Current Situation in Mediterranean Sea: Discussion (29 Apr 2015)

Seán Crowe: ...emotionally that we want to do more and I have no doubt that we will but the reality is that we will not do a huge amount. We can see the real attitude of the Irish towards refugees through the direct provision centres. People have been in the system for the past ten years. They are still trying to get through the system from one end to the other and are living in appalling conditions...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Migration Issues: World Health Organization (14 Jan 2015)

Seán Crowe: ...we try to help out in different ways. With regard to the common approach, it must be common across Europe in terms of how we deal with people coming into the country. There was mention of the direct provision centres here where there are huge difficulties, but other countries would have a different approach. Some keep people in camps while others integrate them almost immediately into...

European Council: Statements (2 Jul 2014)

Seán Crowe: ...we are one in the worst in Europe when it comes to opening up our borders for some of the most disadvantaged. Those who are fleeing violence and conflict were down at the bottom. Additionally we now have direct provision in place for over 14 years, which is rife with human rights violations and is morally wrong. I hope the Government will end the direct provision system and also accept...

European Council: Statements (6 Nov 2013)

Seán Crowe: ...saved and that they receive humanitarian care and supports. Due to our geographic location we have not had to face this issue as much as southern European countries, but the State's treatment of asylum seekers through the direct provision system is a scandal and a disgrace. The direct provision system, which systematically institutionalises asylum seekers, has operated for the past 13...

An Bille um an Aonú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Leanaí) 2012: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) - Thirty-First Amendment of the Constitution (Children) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Sep 2012)

Seán Crowe: ...Child Poverty and Exclusion. The report dealt with the shocking conditions and treatment that children of asylum seekers now face. It highlighted in shocking detail the major overcrowding issue in direct provision centres in which asylum seekers are accommodated and indicated that children staying in them are at serious risk of malnourishment. There are currently 5,098 people in...

An Bille um an Aonú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Leanaí) 2012: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) - Thirty-First Amendment of the Constitution (Children) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Sep 2012)

Seán Crowe: ...Child Poverty and Exclusion. The report dealt with the shocking conditions and treatment that children of asylum seekers now face. It highlighted in shocking detail the major overcrowding issue in direct provision centres in which asylum seekers are accommodated and indicated that children staying in them are at serious risk of malnourishment. There are currently 5,098 people in...