Results 101-120 of 150 for "direct provision" speaker:Trevor Ó Clochartaigh

Seanad: Asylum Support Services: Motion (23 Oct 2013)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: ...This is probably the most significant debate I have been involved in since I have been here in the last two and a half years. We have a chance to make a real difference here tonight. The 4,600 people in direct provision are listening in and noting what is happening here tonight and are very concerned. The Minister inherited an appalling system and a backlog in the courts, which was...

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Oct 2013)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: ...a bhí againn. A number of Senators have bemoaned the difficult number of months we have had, but I contend that this pales to insignificance compared with the conditions that many people who find themselves in direct provision have gone through. I recommend all Senators read Carl O'Brien's articles in The Irish Times. He raises issues that have been raised many times in the House...

Seanad: Directive of European Parliament on Sexual Abuse and Exploitation of Children: Statements (19 Sep 2013)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: ...that have not signed up to the directive. Denmark has not done so because it has gone further than the directive calls for. I note Senator Keane's comments about Portugal. Senator Conway and I recently visited its equivalent of direct provision in Lisbon. It is a much better model than the system we have. That is an issue to which I will return, but the Minister needs to take...

Seanad: An Bille um an Tríú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Cúirt Achomhairc) 2013: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Thirty-third Amendment of the Constitution (Court of Appeal) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (24 Jul 2013)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: .... Guímid gach rath air. Sílimid go bhfuil sé ríachtanach go mbeadh a leithéid ann agus beimid ag tacú leis. We will support this Bill, as I said previously. On Second Stage I brought up the issue of direct provision, and I noted the 1,850 people who are over five years in that system. The Minister indicated to me previously that many of those cases are...

Seanad: An Bille um an Tríú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Cúirt Achomhairc) 2013: An Dara Céim - Thirty-third Amendment of the Constitution (Court of Appeal) Bill 2013: Second Stage (24 Jul 2013)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: ...and ask the Minister to take on board some of the concerns I have highlighted. I concur with the sentiment expressed by the Minister that justice delayed is justice denied and cannot let the opportunity pass without referring to an Adjournment matter on direct provision that I tabled for discussion last week and was taken on the Minister's behalf. In that instance justice has been...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Direct Provision System (19 Jul 2013)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Cuirim céad fáilte roimh an Aire. Táim buíoch dó as ucht fanacht anseo don díospóireacht seo ar an Athló. I am again raising the issue of direct provision. I have raised it before on numerous occasions from different perspectives. It would be good at this stage to get an update from the Minister for Justice and Equality on the 53 direct provision...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Direct Provision System (15 Jul 2013)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Gabhaim míle buíochas leis an Aire Stáit as bheith anseo linn. Coincidentally the Minister of State was present when I raised a similar issue previously on the payments relating to direct provision. I have forwarded, as part of my question, a receipt that a person who is in direct provision gets from the Department of Social Protection. The question is around the figures....

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Direct Provision System (15 Jul 2013)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: ...gather that the figure of €186 is a factious amount and that €166.90 is not handed over to any third party. The basic social welfare allowance of €186 is the mechanism used to pay a person in direct provision and that a technical deduction is made of €166.90 which does not go anywhere. I take it that is the issue. I am not sure if we can get the Minister of...

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Jul 2013)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: ...: An Irish Quarterly Review, in which she wrote the lead article, entitled "Asylum Seekers in our Republic: Why Have We Gone Wrong?" Today, she intimated her frustration - these are my words - with the way direct provision has been handled and the situation for those asylum seekers in direct provision. She outlined a number of legal issues with the system and the lack of oversight. As...

Seanad: Housing (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2013)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: ...support the Bill, I am compelled to use this short opportunity to highlight the broader failure of Government housing policy. For some years the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government, supported by two Governments, has been abandoning the direct provision of social housing by the State. In its place they have been pushing private sector solutions to the housing...

Seanad: Criminal Law (Human Trafficking) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (23 May 2013)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Is there concern about the system of direct provision?

Seanad: Criminal Law (Human Trafficking) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (23 May 2013)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: ...here and have serious special needs by way of disabilities, or mental or physical disorders? I think I have asked this question before. A number of people who are trafficked end up in the direct provision system. Is the Minister of State concerned with the system of direct provision as it is currently constituted? The system houses many of these victims and is dealing with people who...

Seanad: Criminal Law (Human Trafficking) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (23 May 2013)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: .... Asylum seekers in Ireland are not permitted to work in any capacity pending the resolution of the claim regardless of how long it takes. Senator van Turnhout and I have highlighted previously the issue of direct provision, and our misgivings about this system are very much connected to this. Some legal scholars have identified the situation in the UK which ratified the directive but...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Irish Presidency of EU: Discussion with Amnesty International (16 May 2013)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: ...'s recommendations on treating migrants and asylum seekers fairly. I contend that they are somewhat mild-mannered, to put it mildly. We are seriously lacking in Ireland, especially in the area of direct provision, in which I have a specific interest. We should opt in to the EU reception conditions directive. I gather we are the only EU state that has not done so, apart from Denmark,...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Direct Provision (8 May 2013)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: The figures I have been given show that in 2012 the Department spent €63.5 million on direct provision. My question regarding NAMA arises from the fact that properties in NAMA are ostensibly State-owned properties. If any of the companies contracted by the RIA to provide accommodation to asylum seekers are under the aegis of NAMA, are we not simply giving moneys from one arm of the...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Direct Provision (8 May 2013)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: ...come to the House. We may not agree on policy issues all the time but he always makes time to come to the House, which I appreciate, especially for an Adjournment matter. I have raised again the issue of direct provision. Direct provision is an appalling system set up as a privatised system under a Fianna Fáil regime and needs to be reformed. In opposition the Minister was very...

Seanad: Domestic Violence: Motion (8 May 2013)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: ...violence, with a target of at least 1 refuge place per 10,000 of population,and resources ring fenced to make progress towards that target; -- to take action to ensure that there are adequate safeguards in Direct Provision accommodation centres to ensure that any potential for domestic violence is minimised, and to ensure that the residents of such centres have reasonable and effective...

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Apr 2013)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: ...feel it is already half abolished that they do not bother to come in at all? What is going on that we are not getting Ministers in to debate issues of health, education, mortgage distress, poverty, equality, rural affairs, agriculture, direct provision and natural resources, all issues raised over the past several weeks? It is about time the Ministers showed us the respect we deserve. I...

Seanad: Criminal Law (Human Trafficking) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (24 Apr 2013)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: ...and a very low rate of prosecutions. The Government should use this opportunity to outline how it plans to improve victim identification with a view to improving the support to and protection of victims and to prepare witnesses for criminal prosecution. Yesterday, we saw a day of action on the issue of direct provision, and we had a meeting today of the Seanad ad hoc group on direct...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Apr 2013)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: ..., it would be apt and appropriate that a new Minister of State be appointed to make sure there is a full team working on all of the issues involved. I would also like to commend the Irish Refugee Council on its day of action on direct provision yesterday. I also note that Mrs. Justice Catherine McGuinness has echoed the sentiments of myself and other Senators that the direct provision...