Results 121-134 of 134 for "direct provision" speaker:Eoin Ó Broin

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

Eoin Ó Broin: ...family or individuals are put into emergency accommodation or bed-and-breakfast accommodation funded through the new communities unit, they are put into emergency accommodation. The 400 families in direct provision that have stamp 4 status are not in care. I am not saying that the figures would make a difference - there is no reason that the Minister could not have his Department's...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Quarterly Progress Report Strategy for Rented Sector: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (18 Jan 2017)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...in transitional or emergency accommodation funded by the Department of Social Protection's new communities unit; and they do not include the approximately 400 families that are currently trapped in direct provision or those in transitional accommodation funded by the Reception and Integration Agency, RIA, who have their stamp 4 visas. This means that the figures that are being released...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (17 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...he has had with the Minster for Justice and Equality, relevant Department officials and local authority housing managers to discuss the difficulties faced by the 500 people who are currently in direct provision despite having refugee status; and if he will consider providing these persons with additional supports to help them find housing. [35453/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Data (3 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 42. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of adults and children who remain in direct provision after receiving their stamp four leave to remain; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the Reception and Integration Agency is now threatening these persons with eviction with the potential of them becoming homeless; if her attention has further been drawn to the very...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Direct Provision System (3 Nov 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: 78. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the large number of persons who remain in direct provision following receipt of their stamp four visas and the threat of these persons and families being made homeless by the Reception and Integration Agency; if with his responsibility for homelessness policy he has raised this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (14 Sep 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: ..., which does not go on to State borrowing, from the credit unions for approved housing bodies. Where are we with that? At the last meeting, I discussed the 400 households who are stuck in direct provision and who have the stamp 4 visas. They cannot get out of direct provision partly because of language and cultural barriers and partly because they are still stuck on €19.50 per...

Housing Strategy: Statements (19 Jul 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: ..., realistic proposals to the Minister as we did to the Committee on Housing and Homelessness. Crucially, however, unless the Minister is more ambitious and unless the Government ensures greater investment in the direct provision of local authority and approved housing body social housing, the crisis that is gripping tens of thousands of families in the housing system today will continue...

Electoral (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2016: Second and Subsequent Stages (13 Jul 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...the members of the forum. On those bases, we are not willing to support the Bill. There are other categorise of people who are excluded. These include the diaspora, citizens from the North and people in direct provision and the asylum process. All of those people have a right to be involved in the debates of the assembly. On those bases also, we will oppose the legislation.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Irish Refugee Council (19 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank Ms Conlan and Mr. O'Neill for their presentations. Like a number of colleagues, I represent a constituency that has a significant asylum and direct provision community in Clondalkin. I work a lot with the residents of the Clondalkin Towers Refugee Centre, including those who are stuck in the asylum system and the approximately 40 families who have their papers and are yet to be...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Irish Refugee Council (19 May 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...but not everybody who goes in has the same ability to understand that advice and information. If one has grown up here, one understands what Revenue is and what a PPS number is, whereas if one has been trapped in direct provision for eight years and is now "out" officially, understanding all of that takes far more than the standard information and advice that good quality local authority...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...would not have a row about it. I think they need to be somewhere in the programme. A very large number of families that were in the asylum system and have been granted status are now trapped in direct provision because they cannot get either private rented or council accommodation. There are approximately 40 such families in Clondalkin and the State-wide picture is much larger so they...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: County and City Management Association (26 Apr 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...acquisitions would bring that figure up to just 20%. I would like Mr. Cummins to answer but I know he will not. Would it not be helpful if the target set for local authorities by central government was not just 20% direct provision by them and housing associations but, rather, 40% or 80%? The measure would mean local authorities could get on with their business. If the money is there,...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Business of Committee (20 Apr 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...are also part of the problem. There is an ongoing problem with the quality of Traveller accommodation. There are very large numbers of people who have their stamp 4 but who are still stuck living in direct provision centres, even though they should not be, and who cannot gain access to the housing market. I propose another addition - this ties in with what Deputy Ruth Coppinger said -...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Business of Committee (20 Apr 2016)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...is NAMA which should be the subject of a standalone session. The eight issue is social inclusion. We must not forget this issue, whether it concerns Travellers or those inappropriately stuck in direct provision centres. There might be particular issues to be discussed such as rural housing for the elderly. The ninth issue - one I stress strongly - is the personal testimonies of...