Results 21-40 of 150 for "direct provision" speaker:Trevor Ó Clochartaigh

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2016: Second and Subsequent Stages (15 Jul 2016)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: ...when the Government is coming around to Sinn Féin's position to provide voting rights for Irish citizens in the Six Counties and the diaspora, it is disappointing that this legislation ignores them completely. It would not have taken much extra work or imagination to include them in this plan. There is also the issue of those who are in direct provision or the asylum process. I...

Seanad: Immigration (Reform) (Regularisation of Residency Status) Bill 2016: Second Stage (29 Jun 2016)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: ...a proposed new single protection procedure comes into force. It is unacceptable that people who are waiting for a decision on their protection needs for up to four years are left languishing in direct provision during that time. While supportive of the objective and good intention of the Bill, I and a number of non-governmental organisations, NGOs, have stated that we have concerns about...

Seanad: Immigration (Reform) (Regularisation of Residency Status) Bill 2016: Second Stage (29 Jun 2016)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: I would welcome a further debate on Committee Stage on all of these issues. I state once more that I believe direct provision is a national disgrace.

Seanad: Immigration (Reform) (Regularisation of Residency Status) Bill 2016: Second Stage (29 Jun 2016)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: ...and it needs to be scrapped forthwith and the privatised nature of it and the way people's human rights are being degraded is absolutely unacceptable. I call for a specific debate on scrapping direct provision at a later date.

Seanad: Immigration (Reform) (Regularisation of Residency Status) Bill 2016: Second Stage (29 Jun 2016)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: He has not said he will scrap direct provision though.

Seanad: Immigration (Reform) (Regularisation of Residency Status) Bill 2016: Second Stage (29 Jun 2016)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: I have been dealing with people in direct provision for six years, Senator Buttimer, and I will not take any lectures from you on direct provision. The Government needs to do something about it rather than waffle.

Seanad: Direct Provision: Motion (27 Jan 2016)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: ...againn san suí áirithe seo den Seanad áirithe seo leis an scéal seo a phlé. Mar sin, cuirim fáilte roimh an deis an díospóireacht seo a bheith againn. I welcome this debate as I welcome any debate on direct provision. We do not oppose the motion as I do not see anything in it that is opposable. However, I put on record my disappointment in all of...

Seanad: Direct Provision: Motion (27 Jan 2016)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: As a Parliament, all Members have failed in this session by not having abolished direct provision. Many people have worked in many ways to do that and I do not know where is the stumbling block. I believe the Minister of State wished to reform the system but was stymied in some way. I do not know whether this is because of the Minister of State's partners in government, whether it is for...

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Jan 2016)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: ...of local authorities to provide adequate housing for Traveller children and their families; the failure to recognise Travellers as an ethnic minority and the continued holding of asylum-seeking children in direct provision centres, sometimes for their entire lives. There is also the issue that the Ombudsman cannot investigate issues relating to direct provision. Child poverty rates and...

Seanad: Prisons Bill 2015: Second Stage (7 Dec 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: ...Senator Bacik rightly called a "black spot on the Irish record", but this is being done on foot of a report done 30 years ago. I seriously hope we will not be in a similar position in regard to what we are doing on direct provision, namely, that we institutionalise it ad nauseamand in 30 years' time other parliamentarians will be here debating reports about how that system is not living...

Seanad: International Protection Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (7 Dec 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: ...conflict with Head 7(2)f, which makes explicit reference to acts of persecution of a child-specific nature. I have a serious problem with the failure of the Bill to address issues of child care and protection, particularly in respect of direct provision. The legislation offers an opportunity to provide some light and hope in respect of addressing issues relating to direct provision. I...

Seanad: International Protection Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (7 Dec 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: ...issue, namely, the rights of children within the system and that the system is, as the Minister of State said, a form of incarceration. Can he show me what is in this Bill that will change the direct provision system apart from the length of time? What will change the conditions in which children find themselves in any of the direct provision centres where they are sitting on the floor-----

Seanad: International Protection Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (7 Dec 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: I understand that. It is important that the Minister of State has clarified that because many people were led to believe that the issue of direct provision would be dealt with in this Bill. However, the Government has chosen not do that in this legislation. Having listened to-----

Seanad: International Protection Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (7 Dec 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: ...is a fundamental issue in regard to asylum internationally. It is a fundamental building block that needs to be put in place. The Minister of State has visited centres and he speaks to people in direct provision on a regular basis.One of the greatest frustrations of asylum seekers in direct provision is that they are not allowed to work. We have people from all kinds of backgrounds. I...

Seanad: International Protection Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (7 Dec 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: ...until the final determination of the protection claim. A protection applicant who has the right to access the labour market and is successful in finding employment, and who wishes to remain in Direct Provision, should be subject to a means test to determine an appropriate contribution to his/her accommodation and the other services provided to him/her. That is the recommendation. It...

Seanad: International Protection Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (7 Dec 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: ...six months applicants either will be given asylum, refugee status, leave to remain, etc. or will be in a position whereby they will be deported and, in consequence, people will not be continuing in direct provision-style accommodation thereafter? Is the Minister of State making the point that once this Bill is passed, this issue will be solved overnight and any new applications will be...

Seanad: International Protection Bill 2015: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: ...sets out the views of people in the protection system? Does it have anything to do with the suggested improvements to the existing determination process as set out in chapter 3? Are we touching on direct provision? Are we looking at chapter 4, which talks about suggested improvements to living conditions in direct provision accommodation centres? Chapter 5 of the report relates to...

Seanad: International Protection Bill 2015: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: There has been a great deal of talk about scrapping direct provision. People have said we should get rid of it. I wonder, therefore, why the Bill is not called the international protection (abolition of the direct provision system) Bill. Can I put that question to the Minister of State? Are we discussing-----

Seanad: International Protection Bill 2015: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: ...this clarification on where the Government stands. I would have thought from debates in the Seanad previously that a number of Senators on all sides of the House have called for the abolition of direct provision. I am certainly one of them. It is now clear there is nothing in the Bill which will abolish direct provision and that it is here to stay as a system. Nothing in the Bill will...

Seanad: International Protection Bill 2015: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: ...the term 'stateless person' means a person who is not considered as a national by any State under the operation of its law". I would like the Minister of State to clarify the situation of children who have been born in direct provision. Under a previous Government there was a change to the constitutional rights of certain children who were born to non-nationals here which rendered them...