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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Care Reports (5 Nov 2013)

Thomas Pringle: I thank the Minister for his response. Unfortunately, anybody who has worked with asylum seekers and who is familiar with the direct provision system, and all the NGOs involved, knows the direct provision has serious implications for people's mental health. For many years I was involved with a support group in Donegal Town and there were serious mental health issues for the residents in the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Care Reports (5 Nov 2013)

Alan Shatter: I reject Deputy Pringle's allegation that direct provision is institutionalised racism. Direct provision provides accommodation to individuals, children and families who claim asylum in this country. Without direct provision they would have no accommodation. Direct provision provides better accommodation than is provided in many other EU member states. It provides not only accommodation...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Care Reports (5 Nov 2013)

Thomas Pringle: This question arises from the publication of the Child Care Law Reporting Project, which examined 30 cases of child care before the courts. Three of those cases related to asylum seekers and direct provision. In one of the cases, the judge was not happy to allow the children to go back into the care of their mother in direct provision because of the circumstances in which they had to live....

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Care Reports (5 Nov 2013)

Thomas Pringle: 65. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his views on the recently published report of the child care law reporting project in cases of children in direct provision; if he will consider allowing families in direct provision to live in the community in the interests of the children and families; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46619/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Care Reports (5 Nov 2013)

Alan Shatter: ...of the mother. There is no evidence, either from this project or from the HSE, that there are a disproportionate number of cases under the Child Care Act 1991 involving asylum seekers in the direct provision system relative to the population generally. Moreover, as with the mental health cases cited in the report, centre managers and RIA's child and family services unit are often in a...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Care Reports (5 Nov 2013)

Alan Shatter: I remind the Deputy that no individual seeking asylum is required to live in direct provision accommodation. Quite a number of individuals end up living outside that system, but it is there in circumstances in which asylum seekers have no resources of their own.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Child Care Reports (5 Nov 2013)

Thomas Pringle: ...no sign of it. Many people are in limbo because their cases have come to a standstill while we wait for this legislation. That is further compounding the difficulties they are experiencing. The direct provision system as I have experienced it over 12 years of working with asylum seekers is a system of open prisons. It is not a system of which we should be proud, and we should not claim...