Results 41-60 of 65 for "direct provision" speaker:Mick Wallace

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Direct Provision System (14 Dec 2016)

Mick Wallace: 58. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she has satisfied herself with the care of children in the direct provision system and with the work of Tusla in this regard; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40016/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision Data (13 Dec 2016)

Mick Wallace: 98. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of children under 10 years of age who have been living under direct provision in 2016. [39631/16]

Other Questions: Child Poverty (9 Jun 2016)

Mick Wallace: ...to take to deal with this issue? Certain groups are particularly at risk such as children from lone-parent families, children in jobless households, Traveller and Roma children, children living in direct provision, children with disabilities and obviously those who are homeless. The measures brought in by the last Government had a significant direct impact on one-parent families and...

Other Questions: Child Poverty (9 Jun 2016)

Mick Wallace: ...families, the only jobs available are low paid and precarious ones. Other measures are required. I draw the Minister's attention to the fact that we now have more than 2,000 children growing up in direct provision. It is akin to State-sanctioned poverty. They get €9.60 a week; their parents get €19.10. We have been giving out about this for a long time but, sadly, it...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Ombudsman for Children Remit (9 Jun 2016)

Mick Wallace: 18. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will consider extending the mandate of the office of the Ombudsman for Children such that it could receive complaints from children in direct provision, as was recommended by the working group on the protection process; if she had discussions with the Minister for Justice and Equality as regards joint measures to improve the lives...

EU Migration and Refugee Crisis: Statements (28 Apr 2016)

Mick Wallace: ...minors. We cannot go wrong with that. The Government will find Irish families that are prepared to taken them in. They will not be a burden on the State. They will not have to go through the difficult direct provision process, which I had planned on discussing but will not now. We are blessed in Ireland with opportunities. We are not afraid of bombs falling on us at night while we...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Ombudsman for Children Remit (28 Jan 2016)

Mick Wallace: 17. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will extend the mandate of the Office of the Ombudsman for Children in order that it can receive complaints from children in direct provision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3210/16]

International Protection Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2015)

Mick Wallace: ...against this amendment if the Government is intent on processing everything in six months. Most people, including the Minister of State, would agree that it is fair to say that the people in direct provision have not been treated like normal human beings. Not allowing them to work shortly after their application, and being crucified as a result, is grossly unfair and impossible for any...

International Protection Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2015)

Mick Wallace: ...this is a short-term solution which will solve people's accommodation needs as they seek an application for protection in this country. I understood, from listening to the Minister for State, that direct provision would be abolished, given how poorly it had functioned over the years. Fast-tracking the process will not necessarily solve all of the problems. It will obviously help, but it...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Direct Provision System (2 Dec 2015)

Mick Wallace: 39. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he is satisfied with the role he and Túsla - Child and Family Agency have played in the welfare of children in direct provision and if any measures are under way to improve the provision of care; the measures he is taking to ensure that any refugee children will be given the care they need upon arrival; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Refugee Numbers (26 May 2015)

Mick Wallace: ...migrants who we have agreed to resettle, as part of the European Union plan to tackle the current migration crisis, will be automatically granted refugee status, or if they will be forced to go into direct provision as asylum seekers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19950/15]

Topical Issue Debate: Refugee Numbers (14 May 2015)

Mick Wallace: ...that regard. I welcome Ireland's decision to take in approximately 300 refugees; it is a small start. Given that they have been sanctioned by the UN as worthy of protection, will they go into direct provision or will be they given proper facilities to participate in Irish society and look for work? I know there is a second stage to this and there is an effort to redistribute many...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Ombudsman for Children Remit (19 Nov 2014)

Mick Wallace: 13. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his plans to permit the Ombudsman for Children to take complaints from children affected by the direct provision system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43963/14]

Direct Provision for Asylum Seekers: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Oct 2014)

Mick Wallace: ...rights. However, here at home we have the hypocrisy of the Government withholding legal rights for asylum-seeking immigrants and their children, many of whom are Irish-born. They are placed in direct provision facilities where a process which is supposed to take months can take years. According to the Irish Human Rights Commission, it takes between five and ten years in many cases. ...

Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (10 Jun 2014)

Mick Wallace: ...in. If she had, she might never have seen her daughter again. That was not the 1960s, it was the 1980s. How do we treat our most vulnerable today? Are we proud of how we treat the 4,000 people in direct provision? Are we proud of how we export 4,000 young women each year to terminate pregnancies abroad? Are we proud of how we treated single mothers, those who find the strength to...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Direct Provision System (13 May 2014)

Mick Wallace: 115. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs in view of the fact that more than one third of all asylum seekers living in direct provision are children, if he has been in contact with the Department of Justice and Equality to review and update the existing child protection safeguards in direct provision centres; his views on whether the remit of the Health Information and Quality...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Support Services (18 Jul 2013)

Mick Wallace: ...of asylum seekers; his plan to address her concerns; if, in view of the events at the asylum accommodation centre in Millstreet, County Cork, he will order an investigation into the system of direct provision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36247/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Protection Issues (16 Apr 2013)

Mick Wallace: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the action she has taken to date to address ongoing concerns in relation to child protection and welfare for children living in the direct provision system, as highlighted by the 2012 Irish Refugee Council report State sanctioned child poverty and exclusion; if she is working with the Department of Justice and Equality to review the existing...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Support Services (23 Oct 2012)

Mick Wallace: ...on a report published by the Irish Refugee Council on 18 September 2012 which catalogues more than ten years of enforced child poverty, malnutrition and social exclusion caused by the system of direct provision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40660/12]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Support Services (23 Oct 2012)

Mick Wallace: ...on a report published by the Irish Refugee Council on 18 September 2012 which catalogues more than ten years of enforced child poverty, malnutrition and social exclusion caused by the system of direct provision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40660/12]