Results 81-92 of 92 for "direct provision" speaker:Thomas Pringle

Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (4 Mar 2014)

Thomas Pringle: ...comprehensive reforms of the immigration, residency and asylum systems which will include a statutory appeals system and set out rights and obligations in a transparent way, yet people have been in the direct provision system for ten years. That is criminal and an absolute disgrace. Children are being born in direct provision accommodation. Parents have refused to take their children...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (11 Feb 2014)

Thomas Pringle: .... To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 487 of 12 February 2013, if he will provide details in tabular form of the number of persons currently living in direct provision by year they entered direct provision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6683/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (4 Feb 2014)

Thomas Pringle: 535. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons currently living in direct provision; if he will provide the details in tabular form by year in which they entered direct provision, to include details of those persons living in direct provision for 36 months and over; and his plans to end housing of asylum seekers in direct provision hostels. [5383/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Care Reports (5 Nov 2013)

Thomas Pringle: I thank the Minister for his response. Unfortunately, anybody who has worked with asylum seekers and who is familiar with the direct provision system, and all the NGOs involved, knows the direct provision has serious implications for people's mental health. For many years I was involved with a support group in Donegal Town and there were serious mental health issues for the residents in the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Care Reports (5 Nov 2013)

Thomas Pringle: ...no sign of it. Many people are in limbo because their cases have come to a standstill while we wait for this legislation. That is further compounding the difficulties they are experiencing. The direct provision system as I have experienced it over 12 years of working with asylum seekers is a system of open prisons. It is not a system of which we should be proud, and we should not claim...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Care Reports (5 Nov 2013)

Thomas Pringle: 65. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his views on the recently published report of the child care law reporting project in cases of children in direct provision; if he will consider allowing families in direct provision to live in the community in the interests of the children and families; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46619/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Care Reports (5 Nov 2013)

Thomas Pringle: This question arises from the publication of the Child Care Law Reporting Project, which examined 30 cases of child care before the courts. Three of those cases related to asylum seekers and direct provision. In one of the cases, the judge was not happy to allow the children to go back into the care of their mother in direct provision because of the circumstances in which they had to live....

Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Second Stage (2 Oct 2013)

Thomas Pringle: ...made on an entirely arbitrary basis. Some of the most vulnerable people in the State have been left in a state of uncertainty for long periods, with no access to recourse. Some have been living in direct provision for more than ten years without any sign of a decision being made to clarify their status. If the possibility had been there to submit freedom of information requests on...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Seeker Accommodation (19 Feb 2013)

Thomas Pringle: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 487 of 12 February 2013, if he will provide details in tabular form of those persons living in direct provision 36 months and over by year they entered direct provision. [8689/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Seeker Accommodation (12 Feb 2013)

Thomas Pringle: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons living in direct provision; if he will provide the details in tabular form by year they entered direct provision; and his plans if any to end housing of asylum seekers in direct provision hostels. [6727/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (12 Feb 2013)

Thomas Pringle: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when a person (details supplied) who has been living in direct provision for nine and a half years will have his case decided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6728/13]

Written Answers — Social and Affordable Housing: Social and Affordable Housing (28 Jun 2012)

Thomas Pringle: ...Environment, Community and Local Government the number of social housing units that will be provided in 2012 and 2013 in each local authority; the manner in which they will be provided whether by direct provision of council houses, by leasing arrangements with private landlords or by discussions with the National Assets Management Agency; if he will provide details of any agreements...