Results 101-120 of 134 for "direct provision" speaker:Eoin Ó Broin

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

Eoin Ó Broin: 233. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide direction to ensure that emergency needs payments are readily considered to support those in direct provision centres to move on in view of the fact that homeless HAP is not available in most counties and therefore there is a no possibility for those leaving direct provision to access or save the...

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (27 Sep 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...accommodation and as the Minister knows, because we have reminded him repeatedly, those figures do not include adults and children in Department of Children and Youth Affairs-funded domestic violence refuge and step-down accommodation nor do they include the families trapped in direct provision, despite the fact that they have got their leave to remain. We have 90,000 households on...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision Data (26 Jul 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 442. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons that have been granted some form of status including leave to remain in the years since the direct provision system commenced; and the number of persons that have been through the direct provision system since that system commenced. [34958/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (26 Jul 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 515. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to provide a place finders service similar to that provided to programme refugees to residents of direct provision centres who have secured their leave to remain but are unable to secure permanent accommodation due to the rental crisis. [35841/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (26 Jul 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will meet with the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government to agree the best way in which to assist those residents of direct provision who have secured their leave to remain but are unable to access permanent housing due to the housing crisis and are effectively using direct provision as a form of emergency...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (26 Jul 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 517. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will discuss with the Reception and Integration Agency, RIA, a protocol with providers of direct provision governing the provision of references for private sector landlords for those residents of direct provision who have secured their leave to remain and are trying to access private rented accommodation. [35843/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (26 Jul 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 518. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the standards in place in direct provision centres governing day-to-day conditions, including the quality of beds and furniture, quality of food, provision of study facilities for children preparing for exams and access to visitors. [35844/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (26 Jul 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 519. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide a list of all HIQA inspections of direct provision centres, in tabular form; details of when the inspections took place; if he will provide a copy or summary of the findings of such inspections; and if he will request a HIQA inspection of the towers direct provision centre in Clondalkin, Dublin 22. [35845/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (26 Jul 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...;naiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will discuss with the Ministers for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government and Social Protection the funding arrangements for residents of direct provision centres who have secured their leave to remain but are unable to source permanent accommodation and are effectively using direct provision as a form of emergency...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Direct Provision System (26 Jul 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 1527. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will change the current social welfare payment arrangements applying to residents of direct provision who have secured their leave to remain and who are unable to access permanent accommodation and effectively using direct provision as a form of emergency accommodation; and if they will receive their full social...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payments Eligibility (26 Jul 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 1656. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will issue a circular to all local authorities in which there are direct provision centres recommending that the local authority provide homeless HAP payments to residents of direct provision who have secured their leave to remain but due to the housing crisis have been unable to source permanent accommodation and are...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Emergency Accommodation Provision (13 Jul 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: ..., not including hotels and bed and breakfast accommodation, is that they be subject to an independent inspection regime. That is why the HIQA legislation was amended to include, for example, direct provision centres. It would be a really strong statement of the Minister's confidence in the emergency accommodation that his Department is funding if he would subject them to the same type of...

Leaders' Questions (13 Jul 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...Government to say it does not want hubs to become a long-term intervention. It has to take specific action to prevent it, and I would strongly recommend the actions included in the two reports. When direct provision was introduced, people warned that what was promised as a temporary intervention would become permanent, and they were right. I appeal to the Tánaiste to respond...

Leaders' Questions (13 Jul 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...do not include the hundreds of adults and children living in Tusla-funded domestic violence emergency and step-down accommodation. Nor do the figures include the 247 adults and 152 children trapped in direct provision who have leave to remain but are unable to secure housing. The Government's monthly homeless report significantly underestimates the numbers of adults and children living...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government (22 Jun 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...accommodation and support system funded through the Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government. We know that currently approximately 390 families have stamp 4 visas and are in direct provision. These people are on social housing waiting lists and full-time social welfare payments. They are effectively using direct provision as a form of emergency accommodation. The...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Data (20 Jun 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 855. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of adults and children that have been granted their stamp 4 visa or leave to remain that remain in direct provision or other non permanent accommodation funded by his department on the first day of each month in 2016 and to date in 2017. [28478/17]

Leaders' Questions (25 May 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...and Local Government. That is a 300% increase. These figures do not include children in Tusla-funded domestic violence emergency accommodation or the children of hundreds of families trapped in direct provision after getting their leave to remain or children in emergency accommodation funded by the new communities unit. In fact, the Government has no idea how many children will sleep in...

Direct Provision: Statements (30 Mar 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank People Before Profit for putting this matter on the agenda today. I will reflect on my experience as a Deputy in Clondalkin. Clondalkin Towers, one of the largest direct provision centres, is in the constituency. Like many politicians, we work very closely with the residents at that location. Over the five or six years that I have been a public representative in the area, what has...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision Data (25 Jan 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: 109. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of adults and children that have been granted their stamp 4 visa or leave to remain but that remain in direct provision or other non-permanent accommodation funded by her Department on the first day of every month in 2016. [3441/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Homeless Persons Data (19 Jan 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...shelters or step-down accommodation. They do not include non-Irish nationals in emergency accommodation funded by the new communities unit. Crucially, they do not include those families trapped in direct provision having got their stamp 4 status but who are unable to secure alternative accommodation. Tusla and the Department of Social Protection cannot currently give Members numbers...