Results 101-116 of 116 for "direct provision" speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2012: Discussion (6 Feb 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...was exempted from the normal application of freedom of information in some way. Does Anti-Deportation Ireland want information to be fully available on the way in which contracts are given out to direct provision centres, and the rules for running them? That information is currently not available to the organisation but would be important to it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (10 Jan 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...got large amounts of public money in detail about what is going on, what their decision making processes are and so on. We need to think about that. We need to open the area of the asylum process, direct provision and deportations. It is a human rights issue.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Child Protection (11 Dec 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will outline the measures in place to ensure the safety and welfare of children in direct provision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54503/12]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives (9 Nov 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...that the transfer makes sense and should mean that people will move to differential rent, allowing them to work, etc. That is a positive development but from every other angle, moving away from the direct provision of social housing by the local authorities makes no sense. I should stress that this is not a criticism of the voluntary housing associations, and it seems they do not have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Ombudsman (Amendment) Bill 2008: Discussion with the Ombudsman (10 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...it has taken 27 years to do something eminently sensible and reasonable. On the issue of extending the office's remit to include offices dealing with asylum seekers, immigrants and those in the direct provision system, why is there resistance to this? My explanation is it is just institutional racism and the State does not want to highlight the appalling treatment of people in the...

An Bille um an Aonú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Leanaí) 2012: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) - Thirty-First Amendment of the Constitution (Children) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Sep 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...continues. We have a long way to go to ensure the rights of children will be protected. For example, there have been reports of serious abuse and the neglect of immigrant and refugee children in direct provision hostels. The Irish Refugee Council has called for an investigation into this matter in view of the fact that we do not know what is happening in these hostels or whether the...

An Bille um an Aonú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Leanaí) 2012: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) - Thirty-First Amendment of the Constitution (Children) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Sep 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...continues. We have a long way to go to ensure the rights of children will be protected. For example, there have been reports of serious abuse and the neglect of immigrant and refugee children in direct provision hostels. The Irish Refugee Council has called for an investigation into this matter in view of the fact that we do not know what is happening in these hostels or whether the...

Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...Government provided council housing for the 96,000 people on the council housing list. However, in June of last year, without making any public announcement, the Government decided to abandon the direct provision of council housing. As a result, no council housing will be directly provided by local authorities in the future. It is a veritable counter-revolution in social housing policy.

Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Minister admit that the Government has abandoned the direct provision of council housing? Does he accept that this decision and the cuts in rent allowance caps is a policy that is disastrously failing the 96,000 people on the housing list and represents a massive waste of taxpayers' money? Will the Government abandon the policy and revert to the direct provision of council housing...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...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...

Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----or through the direct provision of council houses to end the abomination whereby 96,000 people are on the housing list at a time when we have nearly a quarter of a million empty properties in the State? It is an obscenity.

Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...on the waiting lists, we would save the State €500 million a year and probably generate another €250 million in rental revenue for the State? Why is the Labour Party abandoning the policy of direct provision of council housing and, effectively, privatising the social housing market to the benefit of private developers and greedy speculators, the very people who bankrupted the country?...

Written Answers — Asylum Support Services: Asylum Support Services (8 May 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 102: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his views on the conditions at Eyre Powell, direct provision centre in Newbridge, County Kildare; if he has met with residents regarding their concerns and his plans to make improvements and refurbishments. [22666/12]

Written Answers — Asylum Support Services: Asylum Support Services (25 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 67: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to improve the living conditions of asylum seekers living in direct provision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31226/11]

Order of Business (11 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...and introduced to the Dáil? Can he confirm that this Bill will give a legal underpinning to the new policies on social housing outlined in June and July, which are effectively doing away with direct provision of council housing?

Written Answers — Social and Affordable Housing: Social and Affordable Housing (15 Sep 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...use of public funds, behind his new social housing policy and its focus on providing social housing through leasing and other arrangements with private landlords and bodies rather than through the direct provision of new local authority housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24235/11]