Results 61-65 of 65 for "direct provision" speaker:Gerry Adams

Order of Business (26 Nov 2014)

Gerry Adams: ...thank the Taoiseach for clarifying yesterday the Immigration, Residence and Protection Bill. He said that it is not proceeding at present but is being redrafted because there were many amendments to it. The Taoiseach acknowledged that the time spent by some asylum seekers in direct provision is not acceptable. In October, the Minister for Justice and Equality kindly wrote to me to say...

Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2014)

Gerry Adams: ...Inimirce, Cónaí agus Cosaint, the Immigration, Residence and Protection Bill, which was introduced here at First Stage in 2010. It has been in committee since. Given that persons are stuck in these direct provision facilities, in some cases for 14 years, this delay is unacceptable. Last month, the chief commissioner of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission, Ms Emily...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (21 Oct 2014)

Gerry Adams: ...to these people and they are mostly young people. It is not their fault that they are where they are. I want to acquaint the Taoiseach with what I found to be an interesting experience. I visited the direct provision centre in Mosney. Some people have been there for ten years. It is a pitiful existence, no matter how attractive the accommodation may be or any of the rest of it. It...

Order of Business (8 Oct 2014)

Gerry Adams: ...asylum accommodation? I have visited the Mosney centre. Some of the people have been there for more than a decade. Will the Government honour its promise to give certainty to these people, to end direct provision and to close the centres associated with it? We should be given an opportunity to listen to an explanation of why the Head of this State was denied the right to visit one of...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Seeker Accommodation (6 Mar 2013)

Gerry Adams: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to the Fourth Monitoring Report of the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance on Ireland which found that the direct provision accommodation system for asylum seekers is unsuitable for lengthy periods of stay and has a negative impact on family life; and his plans to change this system. [11549/13]