Results 141-160 of 293 for "direct provision" speaker:Roderic O'Gorman

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (19 Jan 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: Thank you for you question, Deputy. In relation to the first part of the question, the number of persons resident in direct provision and emergency accommodation centres who are awaiting a final determination on their international protection application, this is a matter for my colleague, the Minister for Justice.  I can confirm that at 31 December 2021, the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (19 Jan 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...the country. One is due to close at the end of February 2022.   The end of the use of emergency accommodation has been targeted for 2022. This is in the context of the wider White Paper commitment to end direct provision by the end of 2024. The speed at which it will be possible to reduce the use of emergency accommodation will depend on a number of factors, including the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (14 Dec 2021)

Roderic O'Gorman: I can inform the Deputy that the number of adults and children remaining in direct provision centres after their leave to remain has been granted is 1,640 persons as of the end of November.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (9 Dec 2021)

Roderic O'Gorman: I thank the Deputy for the question. As she says, this is an important scheme for the undocumented and those who have been in direct provision for more than two years. As the Deputy knows, the scheme does not apply any charge to those who are in direct provision. Therefore, about 2,800 individuals will be able to participate in the scheme without any charge. Regarding undocumented...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (8 Dec 2021)

Roderic O'Gorman: Earlier this year, I published A White Paper to End Direct Provision and to Establish a New International Protection Support Service. Since then my Department has taken a series of steps to implement these reforms, with a view to completing them by the end of 2024. A staff team has been established in my Department to lead the transition to the new model. Ending Direct Provision and putting...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (7 Dec 2021)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...International Protection Accommodation Service (IPAS) of this Department. These figures were last received on Sunday, 28 November, 2021. As at Year Number of Persons in Direct Provision 28 November 2021 7,089 Year-end 2020 6,997 Year-end 2019 7,683 Year-end...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Direct Provision System (3 Dec 2021)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...;Brien, will be very happy if someone does not want HAP, if they can provide for themselves. We have always made provision where some people here are seeking international protection but do not enter direct provision because they are in a situation where they can provide for themselves. There is flexibility, yes, but there is a key issue about people being treated similarly to Irish...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Direct Provision System (3 Dec 2021)

Roderic O'Gorman: I propose to take Questions Nos. 12, 44, 74, 77 and 82 together. Earlier this year, I published a White Paper to end direct provision and establish a new international protection support service. Since then, my Department has taken a series of steps to implement these reforms, with a view to completing them by the end of 2024. A staff team has been established in my Department to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Funding (3 Dec 2021)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...allocating an extra €78 million for the early learning and school-age childcare sector, €41 million additional funding for Tusla and an extra €41 million for international protection and the work to end direct provision, in addition to €23 million for a range of other areas. The main spending areas - childcare, international protection and Tusla - represent...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (2 Dec 2021)

Roderic O'Gorman: Earlier this year, I published A White Paper to End Direct Provision and to Establish a New International Protection Support Service. Since then my Department has taken a series of steps to implement these reforms, with a view to completing them by the end of 2024.  A staff team has been established in my Department to lead the transition to the new model. Ending Direct...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (2 Dec 2021)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...by my Department, to oversee the implementation of the new system of supports and accommodation that will be offered to international protection applicants, as was outlined in A White Paper to End Direct Provision and to Establish a New International Protection Support Service and which I published in February of this year. This Programme Board, which is chaired by the Secretary General...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Human Trafficking (2 Dec 2021)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...80 referrals for Separated Children Seeking International Protection and of that number 51 children were received into the statutory care of Tusla. - In February 2021, my Department published A White Paper to End Direct Provision and to Establish a New International Protection Support Service. This White Paper outlines the proposed new system of accommodation and supports...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Housing Provision (23 Nov 2021)

Roderic O'Gorman: Thank you for your question Deputy. It is incorrect to state that "it is the hope of this Government to give every asylum seeker in this country a home of their own after 6 months of being in direct provision". As outlined in A White Paper to End Direct Provision and to Establish a New International Protection Support Service, applicants for international protection will be provided with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Review of Traveller Inclusion Policy, Education and Health: Discussion (18 Nov 2021)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...in that Department, which is looking at the report's 18 key recommendations and seeing how they will be delivered. My Department also set up a programme board to draft and implement the White Paper on direct provision. I see the use of a programme board that brings in people from outside the Department as a good technique to achieve significant change. We all have to admit that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Review of Traveller Inclusion Policy, Education and Health: Discussion (18 Nov 2021)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...on the role of the local authority in question. I know because the Ombudsman for Children has engaged with my Department and has been critical of elements of my own Department in terms of direct provision. However, we built a really strong relationship and it has a monitoring role but it is an ongoing engagement. I hope we will see that same sort of engagement with Cork City Council in...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (16 Nov 2021)

Roderic O'Gorman: All direct provision accommodation centres are subject to three unannounced inspections per year. In 2021, two inspections will be carried out in each centre by an independent inspections company (QTS Ltd.) and one by officials of my Department. The inspections cover a range of issues relating to food safety including implementation of a Hazard Analysis & Critical Control Point...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (11 Nov 2021)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...that is circulating on social media in regard to the mentioned facility. In response to this, staff from the International Protection Procurement Service (IPPS), which manages the contract with the Direct Provision accommodation the referred to centre, visited the centre on 3 November to investigate the matter, including a review of CCTV in the area, and did not find evidence that food is...

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

Roderic O'Gorman: .... My Department has also begun to develop the integration policy for the new model, based on the principle of 'integration from day one' set out in the White Paper. It will take time to end Direct Provision and replace it with a new and very different system of accommodation and supports - grounded in human rights and delivered on a not-for-profit basis. Our work to do this has begun. We...

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

Roderic O'Gorman: ...Contract values for the period from 2000 to 2018 are available on the IPAS website, www.gov.ie/en/publication/3eef8-contract-values/. The following table gives contract values on an annual basis for the direct provision accommodation centre to which the Deputy refers for the period from 2013 to 2018. 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 ...

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

Roderic O'Gorman: ...is sufficient accommodation to house new arrivals in the State seeking international protection. As the Deputy is aware, this Government has highlighted the issues with the current system of ‘direct provision’, and the Programme for Governmenthas pledged to replace it with a new system centred on a not-for-profit approach, underpinned by the principles of human rights and the...