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Accommodation Needs for New Arrivals: Statements (23 May 2023)

Joan Collins: ...to make profits at the expense of ordinary people being able to find homes, and an asylum-seeking process intended to scare people away from the country through the cruelty inflicted on people through direct provision. The Government cannot now turn around and say it does not know why its response is not working properly. The difficulties we are facing are because of the rotten...

Accommodation Needs for New Arrivals: Statements (23 May 2023)

Joe O'Brien: ...response of Irish communities to new arrivals continues to be welcoming and supportive. I will pick up on a number of points mentioned this evening. We remain committed to the White Paper on Ending Direct Provision. Obviously, it has suffered a setback over the last year but the structures have been put in place to start that process. I also express solidarity with other Members of...

Accommodation Needs for New Arrivals: Statements (23 May 2023)

Catherine Connolly: ...to vehicles carrying asylum seekers coming from Citywest Hotel to the Airways Industrial Estate. Let me condemn that behaviour out of hand. Now let me look at Government policy, which introduced direct provision in 2000 as a temporary measure. Here we are in 2023 and we are going backwards. I welcomed Dr. Day's report and the White Paper. One of Dr. Day's main conclusions before...

Accommodation Needs for New Arrivals: Statements (23 May 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: ...and neglect by successive Governments are among those most severely impacted by the housing and accommodation crisis. The housing crisis is the reason thousands of people are trapped in the hell of direct provision when they could and should be able to move on. Direct provision was a temporary solution that has endured for decades. When the Government proposes another temporary...

Accommodation Needs for New Arrivals: Statements (23 May 2023)

Robert Troy: ...their courtesy every step of the way when I have engaged with them in respect of this issue. I am sure when the Green Party sought responsibility for this area, its objective was to eliminate direct provision and not to extend it. Yet, that was at a time before the war in Ukraine, as well as the wars, famine and persecution the world over. Now, we are being left with a situation...

Accommodation Needs for New Arrivals: Statements (23 May 2023)

Holly Cairns: ...for asylum today, what are they being told and offered? There are larger issues with the asylum system. I am regularly contacted by constituents concerned that in addressing the Ukrainian crisis, the promised reforms of direct provision have been sidelined. I have to agree with them. We all understood there would be delays when we found out how many people would be coming into the...

Accommodation Needs for New Arrivals: Statements (23 May 2023)

Duncan Smith: ...It is unsuitable but it is better than being on the streets. That is the emergency we are operating in at present but we have to acknowledge that what we are witnessing is a dramatic expansion of the direct provision system, a system that has failed for many years. The bringing on stream of suitable accommodation for anyone in Ireland who needs accommodation is something we have spoken...

Accommodation Needs for New Arrivals: Statements (23 May 2023)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...parts of the State, the number of men, women and children seeking international protection who have joined our community in the past year and a half has been significant. We have gone from having a direct provision centre with a population of approximately 250 people and with very good connections to our local community to having five centres and a community of approximately 2,000 people...

Accommodation Needs for New Arrivals: Statements (23 May 2023)

Roderic O'Gorman: ...engage with existing local services. My Department is providing €1.3 million in support for children and young people’s service committees, CYPSCs, to develop support services for children and young people in direct provision. We have expanded the right to work, provided access to bank accounts for the first time, introduced vulnerability assessments of new applicants and...