Results 61-80 of 101 for "direct provision" speaker:Bríd Smith

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Direct Provision System (17 Oct 2018)

Bríd Smith: I repeat what I said before: for every hungry belly, there is a pair of hands and a brain, which is quite obvious. The limiting of the right to work by the State for people in the direct provision system is quite shocking. Most of the parents want to work to be able to independently provide their children with accommodation that does not include a communal bathroom shared with grown men and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Direct Provision System (17 Oct 2018)

Bríd Smith: 10. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps he plans to take to end the direct provision system; and his views on recent reports regarding the number of children in the direct provision system. [42443/18]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Direct Provision System (17 Oct 2018)

Bríd Smith: What plans does the Minister have to end the direct provision system? It is more than three years since the McMahon report was published, which has been discussed at length in the House. Judgment was passed in the court case on the right to work, which is extremely restricted and very difficult for people in direct provision to access. I ask the Minister to comment on the latest figures on...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (17 Oct 2018)

Bríd Smith: 63. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if an investigation into the death in direct provision of a person (details supplied) will be commissioned; the circumstances in which the person was accommodated; if the reason the person was placed in a male provision centre will be determined; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42444/18]

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Second Stage (4 Oct 2018)

Bríd Smith: ...only physical and mental health but also social health. In this country, that is extremely important because there is a serious social exclusion, specifically in respect of young girls, women in direct provision and women Travellers. That definition should be included. A medical practitioner is defined as somebody listed on the register. It would help if we changed that because it...

Pay Inequality in the Public Service: Statements (24 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: .... We conducted a publicity event on repealing the eighth amendment to highlight an aspect of how it impacts a certain cohort of women more than others. That cohort includes poorer women and women in direct provision. Most people would interpret that as talking about part-time workers, cleaners and people who work in hotels, such as waitresses. One would think these are people who...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: EU Employment Legislation and JobPath: Discussion (Resumed) (8 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: ...allowance have been brought into the scheme's remit and the Department of Health and Social Care has already proved that over 110,000 of them cannot work. Is the Department concerned that people in direct provision will be brought into JobPath purely because they cannot get out of the direct provision centres and get work? Does it have any concerns about the direction this has taken?...

Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (17 Jan 2018)

Bríd Smith: ...referred to socio-economics. A woman could always have an abortion in this country if she could afford it, by getting on a plane, going away and paying for it. When a woman is poor, an asylum seeker, living direct provision or a worker who cannot take time off and has to scrape pennies together to pay up to €2,000 for an abortion, that is when she is discriminated against. That...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements by Committee Members on Recommendations oif Citizens' Assembly (6 Dec 2017)

Bríd Smith: ...to the Dáil or the Oireachtas on the question of criminalisation. It is bad enough to have to put up with the stigma, the shame and the lack of access, particularly if one is a migrant, is living in direct provision, is poor or, as I described earlier, is living as does much of the population, on low pay. It is bad enough having to put up with that but it is shocking to be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Ancillary Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly Report: Department of Health and the HSE (30 Nov 2017)

Bríd Smith: ...he comment on that? When Mr. Woods says all women have the same standard of obstetrical care, will he comment on how much of that care is available to migrant women, asylum seekers, women in direct provision who do not have the language, the skills, the access or the finances to access obstetric care and if they are treated differently from others?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Ancillary Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly Report: Department of Health and the HSE (30 Nov 2017)

Bríd Smith: Mr. Woods has stated the HSE provides language services for migrants. Does it provide other obstetric services for them in direct provision centres?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Socioeconomic Context: Dr. Caitriona Henchion and Mr. Niall Behan, Irish Family Planning Association (15 Nov 2017)

Bríd Smith: ...Daly and others teased out the issue of discrimination against women in terms of being able to access proper heath care. Can Dr. Henchion comment on the number of women with disabilities or in direct provision or asylum seekers whom she sees and whether they are further discriminated against and, if so, how?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Risks to Mental Health: Dr. Anthony McCarthy, National Maternity Hospital, Holles Street (8 Nov 2017)

Bríd Smith: ...it girls? Is it women who are below the age of independence or women who are not capable of having financial independence? Is it very poor women? Is it refugee women, in particular, or women in direct provision accommodation who cannot leave the country? Does this reflect badly on the country? As well as penalising all women by not giving them a choice in respect of their own...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Deportation Orders (25 Oct 2017)

Bríd Smith: ...Justice and Equality the process that sees persons with deportation orders who have been diagnosed with mental illnesses and life-threatening physical illnesses being evicted from and invited to leave direct provision centres and that are therefore at great risk of becoming homeless. [45206/17]

Report of Joint Committee on Justice and Equality on Immigration, Asylum and the Refugee Crisis: Motion (28 Sep 2017)

Bríd Smith: ...to because they have absolutely no choice. Those in the Gallery or any of the 26,000 undocumented or others who are seeking refuge in this country deserve respect and consideration. They do not deserve to be relegated to a system like direct provision which refuses to allow them carry out the most basic function of humanity, which is to work, and the second most basic function which is...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Mental Health Services Provision (28 Sep 2017)

Bríd Smith: ...austerity years and has seen special needs education at schools cut for eight or ten years. There are also those who are living in homeless accommodation, not to mention those who are coming out of direct provision and from homeless services back into so-called normal living. How will their mental health be dealt with in a system that is creaking and already failing? The consequences...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Atypical Work Permit Scheme: Discussion (4 Jul 2017)

Bríd Smith: ...treated as lesser people by allowing them to drown in the Mediterranean, when they are not allowed into EU countries and are put in camps when they get here, when we confine them to the torture of direct provision and do not allow them the right to work and keep them on a pittance in a place like Mosney, then we are sending out a signal that these are lesser human beings and the employers...

Topical Issue Debate: Supreme Court Rulings (31 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: In his report, the retired judge, Mr. Justice McMahon, described those living in direct provision as dehumanised and depressed. He said these people were like ghosts. I am sure these people who are like ghosts celebrated when they heard the outcome of the Supreme Court. Can the Minister imagine sitting around, in many cases for five or six years but in some cases for ten, 11 or 12 years,...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (23 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: 93. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will review the prices being charged in the shop in Mosney to persons in the direct provision system to determine if these are at a reasonable level compared to other shops; the reasons for differences; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24334/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (23 May 2017)

Bríd Smith: ...xe1;naiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if asylum seekers are entitled to open a bank account by right here; the acceptable forms of proof of identity and proof of address for those residing in direct provision and other convention asylum seekers that wish to open a bank account; her views on whether clarity in this regard will allow asylum seekers and banks to follow transparent...