Results 81-100 of 116 for "direct provision" speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...in order to supplement the miserable amount of income they were given. Of course, a certain industry is building up around all of this for certain people - not all of the people - involved in direct provision. Certain people essentially see it as just a chance to make a profit. We have allowed this to go on until now and not acted upon it. It is even more shameful and indefensible...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Role and Functions: Office of the Ombudsman (1 Oct 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...submission. On the issue of the remit in areas they feel should be covered, they have answered well the issue of clinical judgments on which I share their view. The witnesses said prisons and direct provision should be covered. I agree wholeheartedly. Do the witnesses have an explanation as to why they have not been covered or what the resistance of the Government is to having the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (24 Sep 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 11. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will consider closing the 34 direct provision centres in the State and putting an end to the institutionalisation that is having such a detrimental effect on the lives of asylum seekers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35426/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (24 Sep 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 38. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she has received any Health Information and Quality Authority reports on investigations into conditions in direct provision centres; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35427/14]

Interdepartmental Report on the Commission of Investigation into the Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (17 Jul 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...years before. There were people challenging these things all the way along the line and those people were vilified. It is not just about the past, but also about the present. The situation in direct provision for children is absolutely shocking and the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs must look into it. The situation for our youth in mental health services at the moment is...

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jun 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...a firm commitment to reinvest all of the proceeds from tenant purchases back into the provision of social housing and the Government's cries that it does not have the money to engage in large-scale direct provision of council housing, which is necessary - and is what the Minister of State has said she would favour in an ideal world but says we cannot afford - is a recipe for full-scale...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (4 Jun 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...and objectionable sections in the Bill. It goes to the heart of a policy shift which began with a document produced by the Department in either 2011 or 2012. That shift involved a move away from direct provision of council housing to a situation where the provision of social housing was outsourced to landlords. This was slightly glossed over by what is a positive idea, namely, that if a...

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Second Stage (13 May 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...of the current crisis. That is absolutely true and in fact, successive Governments, probably over the past 20 years or so, have laid the foundations for this crisis by dramatically reducing the direct provision of council housing and essentially outsourcing social housing to the private sector in the form of rent allowance and more recently, rental accommodation scheme, RAS, arrangements...

Housing Provision: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 May 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...would result in reductions in rents. She was wrong and should admit that it did not work. Rents have increased. The problem was also exacerbated by the Government's abandonment, in June 2011, of direct provision for social housing. The document to which the Minister of State referred announced that the Government was going to rely primarily on leasing arrangements with the private...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Current Housing Demand: Discussion (15 Apr 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...of social housing from the private rented sector through leasing arrangements and so on. That idea was nonsense. It has failed and clear statements must be made to the effect that we must return to direct provision of social housing via the representatives' organisations or the local authorities. How would the representatives respond to that?

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (15 Apr 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 477. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the lines of communication between his Department and RIA; the frequency of meetings; the procedures for dealing with issues that occur in direct provision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17534/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (15 Apr 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 478. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the procedures in place in direct provision centres in circumstances of deaths of residents in terms of notification, burial and communication with other residents; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17535/14]

Social Housing and Homelessness Policy: Statements (12 Mar 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Department issued a policy document in July 2012 in which it was stated that direct provision of newly built social housing was being brought to an end and that it would in future rely on leasing arrangements with the private sector. At the same time, rent allowance supports and caps were reduced. I remember the Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Burton, promising us in this House...

Topical Issue Debate: Homelessness Strategy (3 Dec 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...ten years or more on the housing list. What are these people supposed to do? Platitudes about ending homelessness and pie-in-the-sky plans will not cut it. Cathal Morgan was clear that what is needed is direct provision of social housing. Given that we will pay €9.1 billion in interest to bondholders next year, the Minister of State cannot tell me that we could not hold back a...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Nov 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...and if we in any way incentivise the same stuff to happen again. This is not a comprehensive answer to it but one thing that would help control and regulate it a little would be if we increased the direct provision of social housing to keep prices from inflating out of all control. I worry about any property-based tax incentives, that we could make all the same mistakes again.

Appointment of Ombudsman and Information Commissioner: Motions (5 Nov 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...we need to direct a spotlight and areas that have been excluded from the remit of the Ombudsman, such as prisons and the asylum process. The situation with regard to the asylum process and the direct provision system is shocking. It is urgent that any Government that claims to be interested in the rights of citizens, equality and fair treatment for people resident in the State should...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...being listened to. The Government's policy on social housing is to outsource it to the same people, although not Tom McFeely this time but other people like him. The Government has abandoned the direct provision of social housing and has handed over, as the Taoiseach calls it, the most important market of a roof over the heads of human beings, which is the precondition for civilised...

Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 Oct 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...relations issues in Dún Laoghaire Harbour Company relating to pay, bonuses, executive expenses, huge sums wasted on ridiculous plans and so on. We need that information. The joint committee also debated the issue of direct provision, the asylum process, refugee applications and son. Will FOI legislation be fully applied in this area? This is important. We have had a dark and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Office of the Ombudsman Annual Report 2012: Discussion with Ombudsman (26 Sep 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...citizen's rights in local authority housing. I commend the Ombudsman on raising the issue of the need to extend the ambit of the Ombudsman's office but, more generally, to extend rights to the area of direct provision, asylum and prisoners. I believe that in a few years' time the scandal that will emerge from what is going on in direct provision will be on a par with the Magdalen...

Housing (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (2 May 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...decision of the previous Fianna Fáil Administration effectively to abandon the provision of social housing played a critical part in stoking the property bubble because it meant that a market that was somewhat regulated by the direct provision of cheap, affordable social housing became completely privatised and developers and landlords ran amok, while bankers financed them to so do...