Results 21-33 of 33 for "direct provision" speaker:Maureen O'Sullivan

Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: ...on some children of living in inappropriate accommodation as a result of the terrible effects of successive Governments' housing policies or lack thereof. I was looking particularly at children in direct provision and children living in bed and breakfast and hotel accommodation. One week later, two reports came out that confirmed what I was saying. There was a HIQA report which showed...

An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Cearta Geilleagracha, Comhdhaonnacha agus Cultúir) 2014: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha]: - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Economic, Social and Cultural Rights) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (19 May 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: ...employers giving ultimatums to their workers not to be in a union or paying lip-service to the idea of negotiating with their staff. I raised the issue on Leaders' Questions last week of children living in appalling situations in homeless accommodation, in direct provision and children in care because their mothers cannot access housing. The protection of the right to housing would mean...

Leaders' Questions (14 May 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: ...I can guarantee that in 20, 30 or 40 years time we will have reports, inquiries and commissions to deal with the way certain children are treated today. I am talking about children in homeless and direct provision accommodation. We are told that one third of all asylum seekers in those conditions are children. They can be there for anything between one and seven years. The recent first...

Spring Economic Statement (Resumed) (30 Apr 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: ...;100 to €400 a month for individuals, couples and families. Many of them cannot pay the increases, even those in employment. We have had our scandals in the past around child abuse in industrial schools, the mother and baby homes, the Magdalen laundries and, in recent years, children living in direct provision. The next scandal is the way in which children are being treated...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision Data (1 Jul 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: 436. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the supports that will be made available to the 1,791 children currently in direct provision in view of the Children First Bill 2014 being implemented in the foreseeable future; if she will ensure that the current health and welfare concerns in direct provision do not escalate to the level experienced in previous institutions such as the...

Death and Burial of Children in Mother and Baby Homes: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jun 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: ...and baby homes? We often ask whether we ever learn from our history and I am not sure that we do because we are creating a Magdalen laundries-industrial school scandal for the future through the direct provision system and the deplorable conditions in which some foreign national children live. Has the Minister a recorded mortality rate for infants and children in direct provision? If...

Children First Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 May 2014)

Maureen O'Sullivan: ...everybody has a responsibility to safeguard children. I have serious concerns about particular groups of young people, the first of which is young foreign nationals, some of whom are residing in direct provision centres, while others are living in appalling housing conditions. Regardless of what one thinks of how they arrived in the country or their status, they are children and they are...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Seeker Accommodation (16 Apr 2013)

Maureen O'Sullivan: ...and Equality the steps he has taken in relation to the complaints made to him regarding conditions at a location (details supplied) in Dublin 1; if there are unannounced inspections at centres of Direct Provision; the extent of individual audits at each centre on income and expenditure to ensure the Exchequer funding is being spent as it should; his views on whether there is an adequate,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Discussion with Amnesty International Ireland (27 Feb 2013)

Maureen O'Sullivan: ...friends who work with unaccompanied minors on great integration programmes with schools in the inner city. They work on a pittance and I was appalled recently when I learned of the amount spent on direct provision. Some people are making a great deal of money out of the needs of other people. We must look practically at what can be done. Where is Amnesty International on this?

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Seeker Accommodation (14 Feb 2013)

Maureen O'Sullivan: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the value of the individual contracts to providers of direct provision accommodation; and if these contracts were advertised and awarded as per the EU public procurement regulations. [7792/13]

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) (25 Sep 2012)

Maureen O'Sullivan: ...respected. The council's recent report detailed children in our State asylum process who are living in extreme poverty in overcrowded accommodation and with inadequate food. These are the children in the direct provision centres. The report reviewed the conditions over a ten-year period. One of the points that struck me was that children were described as "alienated", as a result of...

National Vetting Bureau (Children and Vulnerable Persons) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Sep 2012)

Maureen O'Sullivan: .... I know of people who were vetted for one organisation and that vetting did not carry over even a few months later, which puts unnecessary demands on vetting. An area of concern is children in direct provision centres. One third of residents in State accommodation for asylum seekers are children who are especially vulnerable because vetting is not part of the employment practice of...

Review of Serious Incidents including Deaths of Children in Care: Statements (17 Nov 2011)

Maureen O'Sullivan: ...system of citizenship applications within a reasonable time. I want to highlight again those children who have gone missing, some of them from State care. On the removal of separated children to direct provision centres once they turn 18, I had some examples of that in a particular school. The young migrant children had completed fifth year but because they turned 18 they were moved out...