Results 41-60 of 197 for "direct provision" speaker:Catherine Connolly

Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Act 2021: Motion (5 Oct 2021)

Catherine Connolly: ...ignored. I, among other Deputies, spoke out from the beginning on nursing homes and on the utter failure of the Government and NPHET to consider the vulnerability of nursing homes, meat plants and direct provision centres. This legislation is not necessary and it should not be made part of our law. The Minister has come before us with a speech. He has not told us what report has...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Labour Market (27 Jul 2021)

Catherine Connolly: ...and refused respectively for labour market access permission for international protection applicants from July 2018 to date in 2021; the number currently in employment; the number of those residing in direct provision; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40262/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (3 Jun 2021)

Catherine Connolly: 333. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the commitment in the White Paper to End Direct Provision to reduce processing times of both first instance decisions and appeals to six months; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30334/21]

Health (Amendment) Act 2021: Motion (27 May 2021)

Catherine Connolly: ...the pandemic. We would be in a very different space had we done so. I have the greatest trouble with Deputies revising or changing history. We utterly failed to protect vulnerable people in nursing homes, in direct provision and in meat plants. I might have failed as well had I been in government, but I do not think I would have failed to learn from the mistakes. It is simply...

Health and Criminal Justice (Covid-19) (Amendment) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (26 May 2021)

Catherine Connolly: ...a substantial segment of the media had absolutely no interest in questioning what was happening when some of us questioned, way back in March and April, the position in respect of nursing homes, meat plants and direct provision centres, which were not put to the top of the list. I can forgive mistakes being made because it was an emergency situation, although we were fully aware, in...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (12 May 2021)

Catherine Connolly: 182. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the engagement he has had with the Minister for Health on healthcare workers ordinarily residing in direct provision and who are availing of the temporary accommodation scheme being requested to move to unsuitable accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24836/21]

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (6 May 2021)

Catherine Connolly: ...temporary accommodation for healthcare workers. An issue has again arisen in Galway. It arose before, and RTÉ has raised the issue as well as Deputies. I refer to healthcare workers coming from direct provision centres, who are in temporary accommodation, and now they have been told they have to get out of that temporary accommodation. In fact, in Galway, in two cases, letters...

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (22 Apr 2021)

Catherine Connolly: ...was not my question. I had moved on from that. This is about an issue which arose, and that has been in the news on RTÉ and in various newspapers, about two healthcare workers being sent back to direct provision centres, as it happens, because temporary accommodation was not available. I have gone to the trouble of tabling questions on this issue and I am told that the temporary...

Direct Provision: Statements (22 Apr 2021)

Catherine Connolly: I welcome the Minister's speech and his leadership. Hopefully this will be a transformative day where this matter is concerned. Direct provision coincides with my involvement in politics; I went for election in 1999 and direct provision was introduced in 2000. After 21 years we are finally grown up, in theory in any event. I hope the Minister actually makes this happen, with our...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (31 Mar 2021)

Catherine Connolly: ...workers; if the scheme remains open and available for use by healthcare workers, including healthcare workers who are in the international protection process and would ordinarily be living in direct provision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17064/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (24 Mar 2021)

Catherine Connolly: ...Minister for Justice and Equality the engagement she has had with the Minister for Children, Disability, Equality, Integration and Youth on implementation of the recently published White Paper on Ending Direct Provision; the way in which her Department and in particular the International Protection Office will deliver on the White Paper; her plans for reducing international protection...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (3 Mar 2021)

Catherine Connolly: 602. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the median length of stay in direct provision and emergency accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11856/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (3 Mar 2021)

Catherine Connolly: 603. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of persons living in direct provision and emergency accommodation who share a bedroom with a non-family member; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11857/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (3 Mar 2021)

Catherine Connolly: ...process are currently unable to implement the national standards for accommodation centres; the analysis his Department has carried out into the continued use of these accommodation centres as direct provision accommodation given they have been identified as unable to implement the national standards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12005/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (3 Mar 2021)

Catherine Connolly: .... To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 552 of 10 February 2021, his definition of independent living in the context of direct provision accommodation centres; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12006/21]

Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2021)

Catherine Connolly: .... There has been no oversight over self-isolation over the last year. Untested troops are going through Shannon Airport, yet this Government saw fit to follow up on social welfare recipients. We ignored direct provision and nursing homes. I am on the record as having continuously highlighted the issue of nursing homes since as far back as March. We ignored the Covid committee set up...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (10 Feb 2021)

Catherine Connolly: ...Question No. 263 of 21 January 2021, if legislative changes are required for the establishment and operation of the independent monitoring mechanism tasked with carrying out inspections of direct provision centres; if so, the details of same; when the monitoring mechanism will commence its work; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6932/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (21 Jan 2021)

Catherine Connolly: 263. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the terms of reference of the independent monitoring mechanism tasked with carrying out inspections of direct provision accommodation centres for the legal basis underpinning the establishment of the independent monitoring mechanism; the details of membership of the independent monitoring mechanism; if the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (21 Jan 2021)

Catherine Connolly: 264. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of the implementation of the national standards for direct provision accommodation centres; the measures his Department is taking to ensure compliance of existing direct provision centres with the national standards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3281/21]

Pay for Student Nurses and Midwives: Motion [Private Members] (20 Jan 2021)

Catherine Connolly: ...people. That gave the message that we were all in it together and it gave a sense of solidarity. That has gone completely. It went in the way that the Government dealt with the nursing homes and direct provision facilities. We knew then that we were no longer in it together and that some were more important than others. That has really been brought into focus this week and last...