Results 61-80 of 98 for "direct provision" speaker:Holly Cairns

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (6 May 2021)

Holly Cairns: 120. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will address the finding in the Ombudsman for Children's report Safety and Welfare of Children in Direct Provision that the International Protection Accommodation Service’s pre-Covid-19 process failed to meet its own benchmark of two in-house clinics per centre per year (details supplied); and if...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (6 May 2021)

Holly Cairns: 121. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will address the finding in the Ombudsman for Children's report Safety and Welfare of Children in Direct Provision that the International Protection Accommodation Service failed to follow its own child protection and welfare policy (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23352/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (6 May 2021)

Holly Cairns: 122. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will address the finding in the Ombudsman for Children's report Safety and Welfare of Children in Direct Provision that the International Protection Accommodation Service has failed to put in place the necessary safeguards to ensure that children residing in direct provision, emergency reception and...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (6 May 2021)

Holly Cairns: 123. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on the finding in the Ombudsman for Children's report Safety and Welfare of Children in Direct Provision that the International Protection Accommodation Service has not appointed an independent designated officer to handle complaints as recommended by the McMahon report (details supplied); and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (6 May 2021)

Holly Cairns: 124. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his response to the finding in the Ombudsman for Children's report Safety and Welfare of Children in Direct Provision that the International Protection Accommodation Service has failed to put in place the necessary safeguards to ensure that children residing in direct provision, emergency reception and...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (6 May 2021)

Holly Cairns: 125. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on the finding in the Ombudsman for Children's report Safety and Welfare of Children in Direct Provision that Tusla did not recognise the inherent vulnerability of minors in the international protection process and failed to make reasonable adjustments, which would give the children in direct...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (6 May 2021)

Holly Cairns: 126. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth her views on the finding in the Ombudsman for Children's report Safety and Welfare of Children in Direct Provision that Tusla, the HSE and IPAS have failed to collaborate to provide on-site preventative and early intervention services and to gather data on national trends of referrals to services given that...

Written Answers — Department of Health: International Protection (6 May 2021)

Holly Cairns: 169. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the finding in the Ombudsman for Children's report Safety and Welfare of Children in Direct Provision that Tusla, the HSE and IPAS have failed to collaborate to provide on-site preventative and early intervention services and to gather data on national trends of referrals to services which was a recommendation of the McMahon report. [23344/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (5 May 2021)

Holly Cairns: 438. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on the finding in the Ombudsman for Children report Safety and Welfare of Children in Direct Provision that the direct provision model does not have the best interests of children or the protection and promotion of the human rights of child refugees at its core; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (5 May 2021)

Holly Cairns: ...Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the immediate steps he is taking to address the child safeguarding concerns raised in the Ombudsman for Children report Safety and Welfare of Children in Direct Provision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23037/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (5 May 2021)

Holly Cairns: ...Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the immediate steps he is taking to address the child safeguarding concerns raised in the Ombudsman for Children report Safety and Welfare of Children in Direct Provision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23050/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (5 May 2021)

Holly Cairns: ...the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of the work of the International Protection Accommodation Service in establishing an independent inspectorate for direct provision as recommended in the Working Group to Report to Government on the Protection Process on Improvements to the Protection Process, including Direct Provision and Supports to Asylum...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (5 May 2021)

Holly Cairns: ...for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason the International Protection Accommodation Service pre-Covid-19, failed to meet its own benchmark of three inspections per direct provision centre per year and did not inspect emergency accommodation centres in which children were residing at all; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23049/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (28 Apr 2021)

Holly Cairns: 727. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the direction he has given to the providers of catering in direct provision centres to accommodate the altered eating patterns of Muslim asylum seekers during Ramadan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22248/21]

Direct Provision: Statements (22 Apr 2021)

Holly Cairns: ..., unsure of when the pandemic will end and we can see loved ones again, and unsure of work. This has been an abnormal year for most of us, but it is normality for the thousands of people we keep in direct provision, where families are forced into limbo for years. Life events pass by, funerals are missed, children and grandchildren grow up and professionals deskill. A State that is...

Impact of Covid-19 on Women for International Women’s Day: Statements (4 Mar 2021)

Holly Cairns: ...show that many women find it incredibly hard to pay for sanitary products. This means they end up wearing pads or tampons longer than is comfortable or hygienic. It means that those in disadvantage, homelessness or direct provision must resort to stuffing their underwear with toilet paper. How is this acceptable? Scotland has become the first country in the world to make period...

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

Holly Cairns: 597. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to the situation in a direct provision centre (details supplied) in which residents are refusing the meals provided in protest at the standard and suitability of food and have been refused access to raw food to prepare their own meals; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (24 Feb 2021)

Holly Cairns: ...Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to plans to limit asylum seekers to an in-house shop rather than allowing them to buy goods in local stores in a direct provision centre (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9973/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (17 Feb 2021)

Holly Cairns: 532. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to reports from a direct provision centre (details supplied) that it is allegedly serving expired food to children in the centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8338/21]

An Bille um an Seachtú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Cearta Geilleagracha, Comhdhaonnacha agus Cultúir), 2018: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution (Economic, Social and Cultural Rights) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 Jan 2021)

Holly Cairns: ...the importance of cultural activities. These rights are a legal and moral tool to fight endemic injustices in our society, to address homelessness, to cut health care waiting lists, to end direct provision, to give all people with disabilities the dignity they deserve, and to seriously respond to the climate crisis. Former President and UN Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson has...