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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Direct Provision System (2 Jun 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: ...are feeling the pinch as a result, but in a time of war it is really important that we hunker down and do our best to ease the suffering of people being targeted. The danger is that the Government's plan for direct provision could in many ways come a cropper if it uses the system to house people who are fleeing from war. I am trying to get a sense of how the Government plan for direct...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Direct Provision System (2 Jun 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...Day and Dr. David Donoghue, overseeing the implementation of the White Paper. I met them to determine how we can continue to respond to the needs of Ukrainians while at the same time ending direct provision. We will be introducing a revised schedule for the implementation of all elements of the White Paper shortly.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Direct Provision System (2 Jun 2022)

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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Direct Provision System (2 Jun 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: 34. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of Ukrainian nationals who have entered the direct provision system in each of the past ten years and to date in 2022. [27575/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Direct Provision System (2 Jun 2022)

Peadar Tóibín: This is the first time in the 11 years I have been in the House that there has been no other Deputy present to ask a Minister a parliamentary question. The Minister will agree with me that the direct provision system has been a disaster. In a country that looks back continuously at wrongs the State has done, the fact that the direct provision system is currently still functioning is a...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Direct Provision System (2 Jun 2022)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Deputy is correct about the direct provision system. He knows of my efforts to end direct provision. We have the White Paper. We had a quite substantive discussion about that during the taking of questions earlier today and I set out what we are doing. I have been honest about the impact of the war in Ukraine, which has affected my Department's ability over the past three months. ...