Results 21-29 of 29 for "direct provision" speaker:Seán Fleming

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jan 2017)

Seán Fleming: ...the national debt and financial position. The Department of Justice and Equality will be here on Thursday, 13 April, to deal with the normal Vote plus the procurement and management of contracts for direct provision. I have a note of further items listed that we will give dates for in due course, for example, HSE section 38 and section 39 organisations. Procurement issues come up...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2017)

Seán Fleming: ..., Community and Local Government because there is a chapter there about funding for local authorities and progress under the land aggregation schemes. There will be a meeting on procurement and management of contracts for direct provision, with the Department of Justice and Equality. There will also be a discussion of EU refunds and levies in the agriculture sector. There is nothing...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2017)

Seán Fleming: ...in the system. We could take funding of local authorities and the land aggregation scheme. There is a chapter on that. Alternatively, we could take the procurement and management of contracts for direct provision straight away. We need to get about two meetings up and running straight away and then we have a little breathing time to put the timetable on the rest of our work.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jan 2017)

Seán Fleming: ...and will circulate them to us with a draft timetable and at next week's meeting, we will amend and finalise matters. I want to get agreement for one meeting. Perhaps we will pick the issue of direct provision. Will we go with that? I think two meetings are booked - one on the sale of the Government jet and the other on the change of rostering in the public service. I will make one...

Freedom of Information Act 2014: Motions (2 Apr 2015)

Seán Fleming: ...Equality was that third-party freedom of information requests would have the potential to delay judicial reviews of the organisation's decision-making, giving rise to significant additional costs in direct provision. That opens up a whole new vista. Is that the real reason behind it? In light of those reservations and objections to these changes to freedom of information, Fianna...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Act 2014: Motions (1 Apr 2015)

Seán Fleming: ...the Department of Justice and Equality is that third party FOI requests would have the potential to delay judicial reviews of the organisations' decision making, giving rise to significant additional cost and direct provision". That is the real reason for the change, but the Minister studiously dropped that sentence from his statement today. Some will agree with him, but I did not think...

Topical Issue Debate: Community Employment Schemes Funding (16 Apr 2014)

Seán Fleming: ...be centralised in the county and I want to acknowledge everything the Minister of State has said so far, which tallies exactly with the information I have been given. There are 33 places for the direct provision of child care and 17 places are allocated for child care support. The most important sentence from the Minister of State, which I will repeat, is: "An additional training budget...

Written Answers — Asylum Support Services: Asylum Support Services (28 Jun 2011)

Seán Fleming: Question 372: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reasons for a reduction of €2.5 million in the cost of the direct provision system in the first two months of 2011 referred to at page 11 of the First Progress Report of the Public Service Agreement 2010-2014; if this is a one off or recurrent saving; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17429/11]

Written Answers — Asylum Support Services: Asylum Support Services (2 Dec 2008)

Seán Fleming: ...Justice, Equality and Law Reform the circumstances and discussion that took place between the Reception and Integration Agency and a person (details supplied) in respect of their moving out of the direct provision centre in County Wicklow and the circumstances involved; if the person continues to be eligible to qualify for direct provision; and if he will make a statement on the matter....