Results 21-40 of 65 for "direct provision" speaker:Mick Wallace

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Access to the Labour Market for International Protection Applicants: Discussion (9 May 2018)

Mick Wallace: ...state of destitution. The witnesses say that if somebody loses their place, there should be a right of appeal but that there is none at the moment. I am familiar with an asylum seeker who was in a direct provision centre in Waterford. He is going to school at Coláiste Dhúlaigh in Dublin. He was getting the bus up at the beginning of the week and going back down as the weekend...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Access to the Labour Market for International Protection Applicants: Discussion (9 May 2018)

Mick Wallace: In this situation, the direct provision centre was living with the fact the person in question was going to Dublin, coming back and being there at the weekends. He was getting his €21.60 per week and everything was fine. Then it suddenly was not and they threw him out and made him homeless. Does the council visit direct provision centres? Does it find that the people who run these...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (17 Apr 2018)

Mick Wallace: 50. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his views on the current management and conditions of direct provision centres here; his plans to initiate a review into the use of direct provision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16536/18]

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2018 Second Stage: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Jan 2018)

Mick Wallace: ...of unsuitable temporary and emergency accommodation each month in Dublin, some suspect that emergency accommodation is becoming a long-term housing response. This draws an obvious parallel with the direct provision system which, as I said earlier, are nothing short of refugee camps. Some 18 years on, the Government is still pumping millions of euros every year into this temporary measure...

Reception Conditions Directive: Motion (23 Jan 2018)

Mick Wallace: ...treated asylum seekers in this country is horrific. In the Minister's defence he is not alone, given that 20 years ago asylum seekers had the right to work in Ireland, but it was taken away. We introduced direct provision in 2000, so successive governments since have done nothing about it. They changed nothing. The length of time these people have spent living in these conditions does...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Directives: Minister for Justice and Equality (17 Jan 2018)

Mick Wallace: ...on from Senator Black's point, I do not believe we should accept the UK as a role model in how refugees should be dealt with. We would have had a fair degree of contact directly with people in direct provision. With respect to the Minister's temporary measure whereby people will be able to apply under the Work Permit Act 2003, we have not met any people who will be able to avail of that....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Directives: Minister for Justice and Equality (17 Jan 2018)

Mick Wallace: It did. When this full scheme is operational, will the people in direct provision who have already been waiting for over nine months have immediate access to the opportunity to look for work, given that they will already have served their nine-month period? Does it kick in straightaway for those people?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Directives: Minister for Justice and Equality (17 Jan 2018)

Mick Wallace: Perhaps I have not understood the Minister correctly but I take it that people who are in direct provision who have applied for refugee status will be able to work when a nine-month has elapsed. For example, if this is all done and dusted on 30 June, will the people who are in direct provision since 30 June 2017 automatically be able to get work there and then or will having already served...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Directives: Minister for Justice and Equality (17 Jan 2018)

Mick Wallace: After June, when the entire process will be done and dusted, will it be possible to apply for a job as a chef if someone is currently in direct provision accommodation?

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Employment Rights (19 Oct 2017)

Mick Wallace: 20. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the timeframe to allow adults in direct provision the ability to work; when he expects legislation to be presented before the Houses of the Oireachtas; if his Department has engaged civil society groups working in the area of direct provision with regard to the drafting of such legislation; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (12 Oct 2017)

Mick Wallace: ...the progress made in rolling out self catering and shared kitchen facilities in the Ballyhaunis, Athlone, Kinsale Road and Clonakilty Lodge centres similar to the facilities available at the Mosney direct provision centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43241/17]

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

Mick Wallace: ...and, as such, we are literally training pirates. To address briefly our problems at home, Deputy Clare Daly and I attended a forum this week at which we listened to the voices of people who are in direct provision or have just recently left it. It was amazing and, I assure the Minister of State, heart-rending to listen to their stories and first-hand experiences. Five individuals...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (2 May 2017)

Mick Wallace: 114. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans for self catering facilities in other direct provision centres in view of the fact that a self catering system at the Mosney direct provision centre has been provided; and the date before which the extension of these facilities will be completed. [19328/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (2 May 2017)

Mick Wallace: 115. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the details of the point allocation system used for awarding points to persons in the Mosney direct provision centre to purchase items in the on-site supermarket (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19329/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (2 May 2017)

Mick Wallace: 116. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of points awarded to persons or groups of persons (details supplied) in the Mosney direct provision centre to purchase items in the on-site supermarket per week. [19330/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (2 May 2017)

Mick Wallace: 117. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the body that sets the prices for supermarket items in the Mosney direct provision centre (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19331/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision Payments (2 May 2017)

Mick Wallace: 118. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will consider increasing the residential income maintenance payment for persons living in direct provision here; and the reason for this decision. [19332/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (16 Feb 2017)

Mick Wallace: 70. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her views on the study Transition: From Direct Provision to Life in the Community which was funded by the Irish Research Council; the measures her Department is undertaking to prepare those in direct provision for life after direct provision; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7831/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (16 Dec 2016)

Mick Wallace: 64. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to introduce an independent complaints procedure for asylum seekers living in direct provision here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40428/16]

Questions on Proposed Legislation (15 Dec 2016)

Mick Wallace: We found out from a freedom of information request yesterday that 850 children under ten are in direct provision. Will the Government consider doing something a little special for them before Christmas?