Results 21-40 of 65 for "direct provision" speaker:Gerry Adams

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (5 Jul 2018)

Gerry Adams: ...and Equality the additional resources that will be put in place to ensure timely processing of work permits further to the recent directive on the right to work measures announced for persons in the direct provision system. [29780/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (5 Jul 2018)

Gerry Adams: ...Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the reduction or removal of the weekly €21.60 allowance following the recent directive on the right to work measures announced for persons in the direct provision system once an asylum seeker secures a job will be monitored; and his views on concerns expressed publicly by NGOs regarding the need for adequate timeframes that...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (5 Jul 2018)

Gerry Adams: ...information campaign will commence for applicants, employers, trade unions, NGOs and all other relevant bodies following the recent directive on the right to work measures announced for persons in the direct provision system. [29782/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (5 Jul 2018)

Gerry Adams: 135. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if additional supports will be put in place to assist those living in direct provision who will be eligible to seek a work permit following the recent directive on the right to work measures. [29783/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (5 Jul 2018)

Gerry Adams: ...have waited more than nine months for a decision on their asylum application would be eligible to receive a work permit further to the recent directive on the right to work measures for persons in the direct provision system; and if the same eligibility will be extended to persons who had already received a decision or had appealed that decision. [29785/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (5 Jul 2018)

Gerry Adams: 137. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons in each direct provision centre who will be eligible to apply for a work permit further to the recent directive on the right to work measures announced for persons in the direct provision system; the number of persons who will be deemed ineligible in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (5 Jul 2018)

Gerry Adams: 138. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the rationale for asking persons to pay a contribution towards their living in the direct provision system following the recent directive on the right to work measures; the way in which these moneys are to be collected; the person or body to which payment will be made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29787/18]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (5 Jul 2018)

Gerry Adams: 308. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the barriers precluding those in the direct provision services from applying for a driver licence will be examined in view of the recent directive on the right to work measures announced for persons in the direct provision system. [29784/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (28 Nov 2017)

Gerry Adams: 264. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a memo has been brought to Cabinet on the Supreme Court decision on the right of those in direct provision to work; if he will publish the memo; and the decisions that were taken as a result of this decision. [50014/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision Data (11 Sep 2017)

Gerry Adams: 644. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the location and number of direct provision centres in operation; and the number of persons residing in each centre. [38326/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision Data (11 Sep 2017)

Gerry Adams: 645. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the numbers of single adults, families and children residing in each direct provision centre. [38327/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision Data (11 Sep 2017)

Gerry Adams: 646. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons admitted to each direct provision centre in each of the years 2009 to 2016 and to date in 2017; and the length of time these persons have remained within the direct provision system. [38328/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision Expenditure (11 Sep 2017)

Gerry Adams: 647. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the cost of the direct provision services per year in each of the years 2009 to 2016 and to date in 2017. [38329/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision Data (11 Sep 2017)

Gerry Adams: 648. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of private operators running direct provision centres; the number of centres each private operator runs; and the amount paid to each of these providers in each of the years 2009 to 2016 and to date in 2017. [38334/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision Data (11 Sep 2017)

Gerry Adams: 649. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons living in direct provision centres who have been granted permission to remain here. [38331/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision Payments (16 May 2017)

Gerry Adams: 128. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if persons resident in the Mosney direct provision centre are currently in receipt of their personal allowance of €19.10 per week per adult and €15.60 per week per child; if her attention has been drawn to a points card system, which means that instead of receiving their personal allowance, residents are awarded...

Commission of Investigation Announcement on Tuam Mother and Baby Home: Statements (9 Mar 2017)

Gerry Adams: .... We continue to fail to protect women with crisis pregnancies while the Government continues to cut funding for rape crisis and family refuge centres. Some day, we may well have another inquiry into the treatment of people, including children, in direct provision centres, into the failure to provide proper resources or into protection of children with disabilities or mental health...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (15 Nov 2016)

Gerry Adams: I also wonder what the Cabinet committee on social policy does. One of the big injustices on our watch is the incarceration of people in so-called direct provision centres. The Government has failed to implement any of the 173 recommendations of the McMahon report, which was published a year and a half ago. An tUachatarán, Michael D. Higgins, described the proposals as reasonable and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Summits (28 Sep 2016)

Gerry Adams: ...slow in meeting its commitments to resettle Syrian migrants. Of the 4,000 Syrian refugees we committed to accept, fewer than 1,000 have been resettled. We also have the scandal of people being incarcerated in direct provision centres, which has been ongoing under successive Governments. The International Rescue Committee called on Ireland to accept 1,223 refugees per annum for the next...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Support Services (27 Sep 2016)

Gerry Adams: 114. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the progress of the implementation of the recommendations of the Working Group on Improvements to the Protection Process, including Direct Provision and Supports to Asylum Seekers, June 2015. [26998/16]