Results 1-20 of 55 for "direct provision" speaker:Ivana Bacik

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (13 Dec 2023)

Ivana Bacik: ...constituencies about people being forced to bid on rental properties and being unable to find any rental properties in their area. Already 6,000 people who have attained refugee status are stuck in direct provision because they cannot access private rental accommodation. What contingencies is the Minister, Deputy Coveney, and his Government putting in place to ensure we do not see more...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: White Papers (7 Nov 2023)

Ivana Bacik: 973. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will make a statement on the implementation of the White Paper on ending Direct Provision. [47281/23]

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Feb 2021)

Ivana Bacik: ...school closure upon children and parents. The impact of the denial of educational opportunities on all our children, many of whom have additional needs or are living in poverty, homelessness or direct provision, is absolutely appalling. Therefore, we need to see an acknowledgement by the Government of the importance of providing supports for children. The Labour Party has been calling...

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

Ivana Bacik: ...have experienced the same things. During the course of the pandemic there have been real concerns about threats of deportation of front-line healthcare workers. In November approximately 160 people in direct provision were working in the healthcare system. We must be conscious of the fact that sectors which are significantly populated by migrant workers, including undocumented migrants...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Nov 2020)

Ivana Bacik: ...Leader for organising it. I call on the Deputy Leader to arrange a debate on conditions for asylum seekers pending the implementation of the Day report recommendations and pending the abolition of direct provision. We know this is promised in the programme for Government and steps are being taken. In the interim, we need to ensure the conditions in which those currently living in direct...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Jul 2020)

Ivana Bacik: .... I also second the proposal from Senator Ó Donnghaile to amend the Order of Business to call in the relevant Minister to debate with us and explain the appalling conditions in the Skellig Star direct provision centre and to explain what it is proposed to do, urgently, about those conditions. As Senator Wall said, Senator Hoey raised this issue yesterday, and all of us who have been...

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

Ivana Bacik: ...and Youth Affairs, Deputy O'Gorman, to express concern and ask that these matters be addressed urgently. I am glad to hear from the Minister that action is being taken urgently in this regard. Direct provision was originally introduced as an ad hocand somewhat temporary system but it has morphed into a system with which there have been really serious problems and injustice, particularly...

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

Ivana Bacik: ...O'Gorman, whom I wish the very best with his challenging brief. I hope we will see great progress made on some of the promises made in the programme for Government, particularly on the abolition of direct provision. I ask the Leader for a debate with the new Minister in due course in this House on aspects of his brief, particularly the promise or commitment to abolish direct provision...

Seanad: Period Poverty: Motion (27 Mar 2019)

Ivana Bacik: ...stress and financial burden placed on women and girls due to period poverty;and calls on the Government to:— provide a range of free, adequate, safe and suitable sanitary products and comprehensive, objective menstrual education information distributed through all public buildings, including schools, universities, direct provision centres, refuges, homeless services, Garda stations,...

Seanad: Period Poverty: Motion (27 Mar 2019)

Ivana Bacik: ...awareness of a range of issues surrounding periods, including intersectional issues, and we have done that today. The motion also does this by raising issues in respect of homeless women and women in direct provision, who face particular challenges in dealing with periods and period poverty. We also need to see issues of period poverty as part of a package of measures. This was...

Seanad: Irish Nationality and Citizenship (Naturalisation of Minors Born in Ireland) Bill 2018: Second Stage (21 Nov 2018)

Ivana Bacik: ...Committee on Justice and Equality on which Senator Conway and I had the pleasure of serving for some years. In that capacity, the Minister was very conscious to ensure the rights of persons here in direct provision and to ensure improvements to and reforms in our immigration system. I know the system is being made more efficient and more effective and we are seeing fewer incidents of the...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Criminal Prosecutions Data (27 Mar 2018)

Ivana Bacik: ...the progress in implementing the law and making it part of policing practice has been slow to date. There is concern about issues such as accommodation for victims of trafficking who often end up living in direct provision centres. While anecdotally we hear from Ruhama and others that women feel safer because they are not being criminalised, given another effect of the legislation was to...

Seanad: Foreign Affairs: Statements (6 Feb 2018)

Ivana Bacik: ...- it is a matter for the Department of Justice and Equality - we need to recognise our role in Ireland in taking in more refugees and ensuring generosity in granting a right to work to those living in direct provision centres. I hope we will see speedy action being taken by the Government in that regard. My colleague Senator Aodhán Ó Ríordáin has taken a strong stance...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jul 2017)

Ivana Bacik: ...that was in the possession of the Department of Justice and Equality for two years has been published. This is the report conducted by the Department of Children and Youth Affairs on children's experiences in direct provision. It contains some very serious findings, notably that children in direct provision are concerned for their safety, particularly where they see single men seeking...

Seanad: Children and Youth Affairs: Statements (18 Oct 2016)

Ivana Bacik: ...level in the context of the number of children living in consistent poverty and the growing number of homeless children. In that context, I also raise with her the condition of children living in direct provision settings and ask her to bring her influence to bear on the Government in the implementation at least of the Mahon report recommendations on improving conditions for families and...

Seanad: Address by An Taoiseach (Resumed) (29 Sep 2016)

Ivana Bacik: ...by the Tánaiste in recent weeks. Can we expedite the process to ensure that more refugees are brought in and can we see the implementation of the recommendations of the Mahon report on the reform of direct provision, which was a priority of the former Minister of State, Senator Aodhán Ó Ríordáin? I received an e-mail update today from Médecins Sans...

Seanad: Direct Provision: Motion (27 Jan 2016)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome Minister of State, Deputy Ó Ríordáin, to the House and welcome the opportunity to debate the issue of direct provision which, as other colleagues have noted, Members have debated a number of times previously. I commend Senators van Turnhout and Mac Conghail and their colleagues from the Taoiseach's nominee group on bringing forward this motion, which is being debated...

Seanad: International Protection Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (7 Dec 2015)

Ivana Bacik: ...is the first attempt in ten years to raise the baseline in a flawed and problematic process. Clearly, there is a great deal more to be done, even just in terms of the working group's recommendations on direct provision. However, direct provision is only one part of our immigration and legal framework which, as I said, needs a great deal more reform. Let us recall that in the four or...

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Dec 2015)

Ivana Bacik: ...continue it today. It is a long-overdue piece of legislation promised by previous Governments who could not deliver. At last we will see a single unified procedure for the protection of those in direct provision, which will tackle the serious problem of long delays. I and my colleagues have met people who have been in direct provision for long periods, some for ten years or more. It is...

Seanad: International Protection Bill 2015: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2015)

Ivana Bacik: I welcome the Minister of State to the House and commend him on his great and well-documented commitment to the reform of the direct provision system, which I think is accepted by everyone. When we all spoke about this on Second Stage last night, I was one of the many Senators who highlighted the need to reform the direct provision procedure and deal with the implementation of all the...