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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Annual Report of Ombudsman for Children 2016: Discussion (16 Jan 2018)

...fit into the waiting lists on their return? We cannot allow waiting lists and administrative practices to worsen an already terrible condition. The final area I would like to comment on is direct provision. Members will note that in our annual report for 2016 and in previous annual reports we have called for children in direct provision to have the same access to complaints procedures...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Annual Report of Ombudsman for Children 2016: Discussion (16 Jan 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: ...might slip downwards but complaints about health care provision might increase. In the short time available to me I shall focus on areas that I have noted. The witnesses have spoken about direct provision. I am also interested in what happens to undocumented individuals. Yet again I shall talk in local terms and refer to the undocumented Brazilian children who live in Galway and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Annual Report of Ombudsman for Children 2016: Discussion (16 Jan 2018)

Dr. Niall Muldoon: I am not sure whether the committee wants me to discuss direct provision further. From our point of view, we are delighted to be in the system of direct provision at long last. We have found it to be a huge positive. Next April will mark the first anniversary of the scheme and we have worked extremely hard. We have sent ten people around the country to try to ensure...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Annual Report of Ombudsman for Children 2016: Discussion (16 Jan 2018)

...that will give undocumented children here the opportunity to come clean and emerge out of the shadows? It behoves us to do so. There are 5,000 children in this situation, which is more than are in direct provision and lots of other areas. Such children have a huge contribution to make to this State. However, after they finish the leaving certificate there is no personal public service,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Annual Report of Ombudsman for Children 2016: Discussion (16 Jan 2018)

Maire Devine: .... Does Dr. Muldoon have an idea of the timeline for the review which the HSE and Tusla have agreed to so we can all have a look at it? I am delighted that Dr. Muldoon raised the issue of direct provision. It has been referred to in the past. It was established 20 years ago. Children have been born and raised in that system. It has been described as State-sanctioned child poverty and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Annual Report of Ombudsman for Children 2016: Discussion (16 Jan 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: ...the HSE in this regard - what does the person do? Does he or she come back to the ombudsman time and again? What is the best advice the ombudsman can give? I agree with Dr. Muldoon's comments on direct provision. I believe they are modern day Magdalen laundries, but in a different context. Given this State's history with children it is not good enough for us all to be shocked in ten...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Annual Report of Ombudsman for Children 2016: Discussion (16 Jan 2018)

...be there for more than six months at the most. Within that timeframe family hubs should be comply with the standards. We also feel that the family hubs options are poised to be very similar to direct provision; we created a very good system for what we thought was going to be the very small number of people who were to come in to direct provision. It could be very difficult to move on...