Results 41-60 of 150 for "direct provision" speaker:Trevor Ó Clochartaigh

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

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: ...legislation that will address it? Why not put it into this legislation to clear it up once and for all? It is both the place and the time to do it. Where do those children who are now living in direct provision - some of whom were born in that system - but who do not belong to a state, stand under this legislation? What is being done, in the spirit of the work done by the working...

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

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: People who are currently living in direct provision and those who are coming to Ireland under the new regime that this Bill envisages will be left in a similar limbo of statelessness unless we press the amendment. They will be very disappointed if they are listening to this debate that nothing has been done on this issue. They are calling on us to try to push this type of amendment in order...

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

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: I welcome what the Minister of State has just said and I equally welcome the statement he made on 23 July 2014, when he said that direct provision needs radical reform. I also agree with the statement he made in the Dáil when he described the system as inhumane and intolerable and said it was a system he refused to stand over in its current form. It certainly needs to be changed,...

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

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: ...in this legislation. That would be very useful for us, particularly prior to our deliberations on the Bill on Monday next. My concern is that the legislation does very little to change the direct provision system as is. The Minister of State argued in his opening statement that the biggest issue is the length of time people are in the direct provision system but I do not agree. The...

Seanad: International Protection Bill 2015: Second Stage (2 Dec 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: ...group and there has been approval for the fact that 26 of them have been taken on board but there were 170 recommendations. Where are the rest of them and where are the key recommendations? All Senators across the House need to reflect on how and how many times direct provision was referenced in the Minister's speech. It is only referenced as a title of a report or in connection with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Direct Provision: Department of Social Protection (18 Nov 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: ...the local welfare office find in advance of someone taking up a lease that it would allow an increase on the rent supplement given the circumstances? Take for example someone who is moving out of direct provision and finds a suitable house in Galway, where there is an issue with rent limits. The rent for the house identified by the person is above the rent limit. Can he or she go to the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Direct Provision: Department of Social Protection (18 Nov 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: A citizen has a right to go to the Ombudsman at the end of the process, whereas somebody living in direct provision can only go as far as the social welfare appeals office in the context of any dispute over what has been allocated. That is the nub of what the Ombudsman was saying to us. The Ombudsman should be available to everyone in the country, including those in direct provision. I am...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Direct Provision: Department of Social Protection (18 Nov 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: On Deputy Ó Snodaigh's point about child benefit, for example, if a parent in direct provision feels that child benefit should be available to their child, he or she would appeal that to the Department and the Department would say that it is not available under legislation. He or she might appeal it to the social welfare appeals office and the Department would again say that it is not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Direct Provision: Department of Social Protection (18 Nov 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: The HAP scheme is in its pilot phase and, obviously, people in direct provision will not be on the local authority housing lists. Will HAP take into consideration the length of time people have been in direct provision? They may have been in direct provision for five, six, seven or eight years when the HAP applications are being made and they have been waiting that long for accommodation.

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Apart from children in direct provision facilities.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: ...éaslaím le Dónall Ó Cualáin atá ceapaithe mar leas-choimisinéir an Gharda Síochána. Is garda as Chonamara é. Fear breá é a bhí ag feidhmiú i gceantar an iarthair. Guím gach rath air san ról sin. I would like to again call for a debate on direct provision, particularly the implementation of the...

Seanad: Marriage Bill 2015: Second Stage (20 Oct 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: ...us that the work of building a truly equal society is far from complete. The marriage referendum was a victory and a call to equality but also a call to equality for Travellers; equality for asylum seekers and people in direct provision; equality for people with disabilities; equality for rural dwellers; equality for emigrants, many of whom had to travel home to vote; and equality for...

Seanad: European Council Decisions: Motions (1 Oct 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: ...area as to how the 40 children who will come to that centre will be managed in the school system. More shocking is the fact that not one of the NGOs working with refugees, immigrants and people in direct provision have been consulted by the Department or the various State agencies working in the area. What about the Irish Refugee Council, the Immigrant Council of Ireland, Spirasi, Doras...

Seanad: European Council Decisions: Motions (1 Oct 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: During the delivery of his annual report yesterday at the meeting of the Joint Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions, the Ombudsman said that at the least he needs to have oversight of direct provision and any new system that is put in place.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Office of the Ombudsman Reports: Mr. Peter Tyndall (30 Sep 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: ..., and I welcome the fact that Mr. Tyndall has stated the position regarding the prisoners, which is something the committee may support and has supported in the past. I welcome the comments on direct provision, which is an issue all members of this committee are passionate about. We will see a huge influx of refugees, particularly from the Syrian conflict, and a new system will be put...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jul 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: ...the sentiments on the passing of former Senator and Deputy, Alexis Fitzgerald, and pass on our condolences to his family and friends as well. I concur with Senator Bacik’s call for a debate on the working group on direct provision. It is very important that we would debate the issue. I have serious misgivings about some of the findings of the working group, which I will make at...

Seanad: Order of Business (26 May 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: .... It was pointed out at the inaugural ISPCC lecture that 1,000 children live in emergency bed and breakfast accommodation in Dublin, which is unacceptable, while more than 1,400 children are in direct provision centres. They are certainly not equal in the eyes of the State. It would be appropriate for us in light of the concerns raised by HIQA yesterday and by other Members to have a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Direct Provision: Minister of State at the Department of Justice and Equality (1 Apr 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: ...ím leis. Tá sé ráite leis cheana go bhfuil sé ag gniomhú ar an gceist seo agus aontaím go hiomlán leis go bhfuil sé fíor-thábhachtach gníomhú ar an gceist. We could discuss many issues relating to direct provision, but we-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Direct Provision: Minister of State at the Department of Justice and Equality (1 Apr 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: ...Minister of State is aware of the large number of issues involved, but it is important that we put them on the record as having been raised with us. The sense that I get from most of the speeches on direct provision that I have heard from the Minister of State and his predecessor is that, if we sort out the length of time people stay in the system, the issues will be solved. After...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Direct Provision: Minister of State at the Department of Justice and Equality (1 Apr 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: ...from the Department of Justice in attempting to reach a compromise over people in the system for more than five years, makes it impossible to reach agreement for a process that will give people in Direct Provision the relief that they need. The draft report from the group which has been looking at living conditions, despite it being a report from the sub-group, from the perspective of the...