Results 41-60 of 116 for "direct provision" speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett

Child Homelessness: Statements (15 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...fortunes overnight. That has been facilitated all the way along the line by this Government. A disastrous decision was taken by Fine Gael and, shamefully, Labour, back in 2011 formally to abandon the direct provision of council housing and develop a reliance on long-term arrangements with landlords, which finally crystalised into the housing assistance payment, HAP. It was a disaster....

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (6 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...from the private sector, through leasing arrangements or housing assistance payment, HAP, arrangements. The cost of that to the State is going to be vast. If we compare this cost with that of the direct provision of housing, we see that upfront capital costs would be bigger and long-term costs would be much less. We will have no control of that if the market continues according to...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee
Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2018 (Resumed): Minister for Finance (27 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...in Rebuilding Ireland? At present, Rebuilding Ireland proposes 87,000 houses will be delivered out to 2020 through the housing assistance payment as opposed to 40,000 through various forms of direct provision. This is two thirds to one third, with two thirds being current expenditure going out, year in, year out. The Government has given a figure whereby if we hit the target,...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion. (20 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...Government's housing plans, has the Minister any interest in the point that much of Rebuilding Ireland depends on the delivery of HAP, leasing schemes and so on - approximately 75% - rather than the direct provision of social housing? It is under review, but does the Minister for Finance believe it is sensible that, of the 110,000 target of various types of social housing to 2021, the...

Srebrenica: Statements (11 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: .... When those refugees then seek to come to Europe, we allow 14,000 of them to drown in the Mediterranean - men, women and children. We deny them entry into the European Union or we lock them up in direct provision centres and treat them as subhuman. In remembering Srebrenica, we have to remember those lessons and end the hypocrisy, double standards and cynical manipulations that allowed...

Direct Provision: Statements (30 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...imply criticism of the outrageous policies of US President Donald Trump vis-à-visimmigrants and asylum seekers in the United States and continue to stand over a degrading, inhumane, cruel system of direct provision, which is guilty of child neglect and abuse if nothing else. It is guilty of many other things too. The treatment of children living for years in this system of direct...

Commission of Investigation Announcement on Tuam Mother and Baby Home: Statements (Resumed) (22 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...horrific abuse, neglect, imprisonment and exploitation of women and children. If we do not do all this then frankly, all the weasel words will mean nothing. We must also stop mistreating children in direct provision and in the emergency homeless services, where this sort of treatment continues to be meted out to single mothers and the children of the poor and the less well off.

European Council: Statements (21 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...Europe policy and because of the despicable policy, which Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael have their fingerprints on, of imprisoning 4,000 people, including 1,500 children, in the abomination that is direct provision. Despite setting up and maintaining that system, which degrades young people, those parties say nothing about it. They fail to criticise Europe's racist Fortress Europe...

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Report Stage (1 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...work, they do not feel they have be involved in it? If you look at things that way, you are immediately into areas like student poverty or people who are denied rights because they are migrants or in direct provision or because in one way or another, they are on the margins or are vulnerable people who do not have other options available to them and who feel the necessity to engage in sex...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision Data (15 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 72. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the details of all companies involved in contracts for direct provision, including moneys paid to these companies each year over the past five years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34854/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (15 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 94. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans for changing the system of direct provision; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34853/16]

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...provided. Tax incentives for landlords and developers are not the right approach. It has not succeeded, and rather than continue to forgo taxes in this area, we should be using available funds for direct provision. It is one or the other. If the Minister gives tax breaks or subsidies to private landlords, there is less money available to the State to provide the affordable housing we need.

Housing Strategy: Statements (19 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...of this plan than we currently have. That is because at the centre of its strategy, this plan does not envisage local authorities taking advice from the Housing Finance Agency and getting back to direct provision of large-scale local authority housing. Why are the figures not in it? Will the Minister tell me how many council houses will be built under this plan? The Taoiseach could not...

Report of the Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Motion (Resumed) (14 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...Castle, which is to be developed and Cherrywood, the strategic development zone, are to be privatised, and we will not get 100% social housing on them. I understand this from the council and the findings of the Minister, and we will see the report next week. Against the background I have described, it is outrageous. I want a firm commitment from the Minister that we will get direct...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (22 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 37. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans regarding the system of direct provision, including a detailed timeline; if the human rights of asylum seekers are being vindicated under the current system; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17148/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Meetings (25 May 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...year will be less than next year's. With all the talk from the Minister, Deputy Coveney, about dealing with the housing and homelessness crisis, he is still using the same figures in terms of the direct provision of council housing as his predecessor, Deputy Kelly. There is no change. Will the Taoiseach take the advice of the Housing Finance Agency which said that we need to...

Business of Dáil (6 Apr 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The remit of NAMA must be changed so that it can immediately bend all of its resources and energy towards the direct provision of council and affordable housing. This has to happen immediately and we must cease allowing NAMA to do things that are worsening that crisis. These issues have to be addressed as an absolute matter of urgency. They are of far more importance and interest to the...

Other Questions: Emergency Accommodation Provision (28 Jan 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...to report on the United Nations committee hearings on Ireland's record on children's rights and the new measures he is planning following the hearings, in particular in relation to children in direct provision and children in emergency homeless accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3201/16]

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...accompanied by other measures long wished for by asylum seekers and those who support them, chief of which are the granting of the right to work and the ending of the shame and scandal that is the direct provision system. As when dealing with other legislation, despite the guillotining and short-circuiting of the proper legislative process surrounding this Bill, I got as many...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...seeking asylum, who in many cases have come from the most awful situations possible. While everybody is in favour of shortening the inordinate length of time that people are left languishing in direct provision, a fear has grown as I have tried to get to grips with the Bill. Like other Deputies, I indicated in my Second Stage speech that in the rush to ram this legislation through what...