Results 21-40 of 47 for "direct provision" speaker:Brian Stanley

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Chapter 13 - Guardian Ad Litem Follow-up Report (27 Oct 2022)

Brian Stanley: ...matters: Appropriation Accounts 2021: Vote 40 - children, equality, disability, integration and youth. The Department has been advised that the committee has expressed a particular interest in direct provision, emergency accommodation, and related matters. Also for examination from the Comptroller and Auditor General's 2021 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services is chapter 13 -...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Chapter 13 - Guardian Ad Litem Follow-up Report (27 Oct 2022)

Brian Stanley: Will Mr. McCarthy tell us the projected total spend for 2022 on direct provision?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Chapter 13 - Guardian Ad Litem Follow-up Report (27 Oct 2022)

Brian Stanley: There are 4,500 people in direct provision who have status, which means they can work. How many of them are working?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Chapter 13 - Guardian Ad Litem Follow-up Report (27 Oct 2022)

Brian Stanley: Okay. That is fine. What is the longest time any person in direct provision has been waiting to have their case assessed and processed?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Chapter 13 - Guardian Ad Litem Follow-up Report (27 Oct 2022)

Brian Stanley: I will put it another way. What is the longest time a person has been in direct provision without status?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Chapter 13 - Guardian Ad Litem Follow-up Report (27 Oct 2022)

Brian Stanley: Before the meeting is over, maybe one of the staff could come back with the longest period people are in direct provision.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Chapter 13 - Guardian Ad Litem Follow-up Report (27 Oct 2022)

Brian Stanley: Will Mr. McCarthy come back to me before the meeting is over on the figure for the longest period of time anyone without status in direct provision has been waiting to have their case assessed?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Chapter 13 - Guardian Ad Litem Follow-up Report (27 Oct 2022)

Brian Stanley: Is that company running other direct provision centres?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Chapter 13 - Guardian Ad Litem Follow-up Report (27 Oct 2022)

Brian Stanley: Has the Department closed any direct provision centres?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Chapter 13 - Guardian Ad Litem Follow-up Report (27 Oct 2022)

Brian Stanley: Has the Department managed to ascertain the longest time people have been in direct provision without status?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Chapter 13 - Guardian Ad Litem Follow-up Report (27 Oct 2022)

Brian Stanley: I ask Ms Baxter to come back to us with the up-to-date figure, as well as the number of people who have been in direct provision for over five years. There was also a service level agreement involved, so I ask for a copy of that.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Oct 2022)

Brian Stanley: ...of Public Expenditure and Reform, and a guardian ad litem follow-up report with the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth. We will also examine that Department’s expenditure on direct provision. In November, we will hold an engagement with the regulator of the national lottery to examine Exchequer receipts from national lottery ticket sales. If there...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (2 Jun 2022)

Brian Stanley: ...and Youth to examine the Appropriation Account for 2020, Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth. The Department has been advised that the committee will examine the area of direct provision and procurement matters, including the awarding of a catering contract to provide meals to Ukrainian refugees. We are joined in the committee room by the following officials...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (2 Jun 2022)

Brian Stanley: I will move on to direct provision. I understand that residents from four centres in Dublin were moved to the Skellig Star Hotel in Kerry and there was an issue regarding lack of separate bedrooms and kitchen equipment. There was also a serious outbreak of Covid. What was the problem there? The Department obviously examined that. What was the main issue there? Was it the contractor?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (2 Jun 2022)

Brian Stanley: ...Who will provide the accommodation? A year or two ago, there was some talk about the State providing it directly, or approved housing bodies or contractors providing it, similar to the approach in direct provision. What is the plan? Are we discussing modular units – own-door accommodation – like those that Deputy Munster mentioned?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (2 Jun 2022)

Brian Stanley: Would the first step outside direct provision be accommodation that was owned by the State, including a local authority, or a contractor?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (2 Jun 2022)

Brian Stanley: Given the situation in Ukraine, we have to help those people. For people stuck in direct provision who have made progress in terms of naturalisation, it is better if they are able to work and participate in society. There is also the housing crisis. This is the perfect storm, with three major pressures and where we have to meet a range of demands. While I welcome the White Paper, will we...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (2 Jun 2022)

Brian Stanley: Given the various circumstances and pressures, when will the first people move from direct provision to the new model? Will it be this year or next year?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 May 2022)

Brian Stanley: ...of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, dated 9 May 2022. It provides information requested by the committee regarding a timeline for the implementation of the White Paper to end direct provision and the establishment of a new international protection support service. The Secretary General addresses the impact of the war in Ukraine on that work, stating that almost...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Apr 2022)

Brian Stanley: Procurement generally will need to be discussed with it at the meeting. It is on the work programme and responsibility for direct provision now resides with that Department. I also propose that we schedule an engagement with the National Pediatric Hospital Development Board in June, with representatives from the Department of Health. The board was last before the committee in July last...