Results 81-100 of 134 for "direct provision" speaker:Eoin Ó Broin

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Direct Provision System (17 Oct 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...in this regard and that he has made himself available to discuss the matter with those of us who are Deputies for the constituency. The men, women and children who live in the Clondalkin Towers direct provision centre are part of our community. The children go to local schools, use local doctors and support services, while many of them are in third level education. The view of the local...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Direct Provision System (17 Oct 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...secure an extension to the current contract. Will the Minister of State comment on this? To clarify, is it possible for the contract to be extended if some other party tenders for the longer term direct provision contract and is successful? Turning to the RIA - I am not criticising any departmental staff member - the families living in Clondalkin Towers are very frightened and unsure...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision Data (11 Oct 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 72. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the direct provision centres that have recently closed or are due to close before the end of 2018; the reason each of these centres closed or is due to close; the name of the company and or person that RIA had the contract for the provision of services at these centres; if RIA expects further closures or non-renewals of...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision Data (11 Oct 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 76. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the cost of a direct provision hostel (details supplied) in each year since it opened; the number of adults and children, respectively resident at the hostel on 1 September in each year since the hostel opened; the number of inspections carried out by Departmental staff or other State agencies or bodies in each year since the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision Data (11 Oct 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 77. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of adults and children residing in a direct provision hostel (details supplied); when the attention of his Department and RIA was drawn to the fact that the operator of this centre would not be renewing their contract; his plans and the plans RIA has in place to secure accommodation for all of the residents of the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Issues (11 Oct 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 216. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department or agencies on his Department's behalf have been engaging with the owner or manager of a direct provision hostel (details supplied) for the purposes of that location being used at a future date for emergency accommodation, a family hub or other housing related accommodation; and if so, if this was carried...

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (3 Oct 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...accommodation and rough sleeping, workers paying more than 30% of their income on mortgages or rent, Travellers living in 19th century squalor, or migrants living in appalling conditions or trapped in direct provision, As many as half a million people are hurting because of the failed housing policies of this Government. The Minister will ignore all of them at his peril. Today's...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (11 Jul 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 259. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to introduce an independent inspection regime for direct provision; and if so, the stage this process is at. [31198/18]

Child Homelessness: Statements (28 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...go through Tusla-funded domestic violence emergency step-down accommodation in a given year. It also does not include the 500 or so adults and children who have leave to remain and who are trapped in direct provision and using that as emergency accommodation or the 857 adults and children recategorised in the previous two months. How is it possible that the Minister can even mention the...

Emergency Homeless Accommodation and Direct Provision Independent Inspection Bill 2018: First Stage (19 Jun 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...(HIQA) the power to inspect all emergency homeless accommodation funded by the Department of Housing, Planning and Community and Local Government. The Act also grants HIQA the power to inspect direct provision centres funded by the Reception and Integration Agency (RIA) of the Department of Justice and Equality. There are over 10,000 people, including more than 4,000 children, in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion (17 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...and emergency accommodation houses homeless women and children whom the Minister ignores. Rough sleepers should also be included in this count, along with those 500 adults and children stuck in direct provision who should not be there but are using it as emergency accommodation. If the Minister thinks he can get away by coming to the committee and accusing local authorities of...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Homeless Persons Data (8 May 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...-down and emergency accommodation are homeless but are not included in the Minister's figures. The 520 people, including 163 children, who, despite having leave to remain, are trapped into using direct provision as emergency accommodation because they are unable get adequate housing are not included in the Minister's figures. When we highlighted all of this to the Minister previously,...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Leave to Remain (17 Apr 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 560. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of adults and children with leave to remain at the end of March 2018 that are still living in direct provision. [16088/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision Data (27 Mar 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 318. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 216 of 21 March 2018, the name, location and intended future use of the direct provision centre that was closed down earlier in 2018 leading to persons being transferred to other centres. [14151/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision Data (21 Mar 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: 216. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of families in a direct provision centre (details supplied) in Dublin 22 by size and number of children; the number with leave to remain; the reason for the recent transfer of 50 families from another centre; when the contract for the direct provision centre ends; and his plans for its renewal. [13052/18]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: DEIS Scheme (20 Mar 2018)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...to the schools completion programme are being made; if issues such as rent supplement and housing assistance dependency in private housing estates will be taken into account; the location of direct provision centres; the levels of homelessness within the non-DEIS schools catchment areas; and the non-DEIS schools enrolment numbers. [12905/18]

Topical Issue Debate: Homelessness Strategy (30 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...before getting a permanent home. This does not include adults and children in domestic violence refuges and step-down accommodation. It does not include people given leave to remain who are trapped in direct provision and using direct provision as emergency accommodation or that even wider category of people who have no home of their own, but are sofa-surfing and in imminent risk of...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Data (22 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 135. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of adults and children who have been granted their stamp four visa or leave to remain but who remain in direct provision or other non-permanent accommodation funded by his Department on the first day of each month in 2017. [49530/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (22 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 231. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 1527 of 26 July 2017, the calculated value of the non-cash benefits which those in direct provision with status receive. [49468/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (22 Nov 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 1527 of 26 July 2017, if she is satisfied that a payment of €26.10 is sufficient for a person in direct provision to have the means to seek employment. [49469/17]