# direct-provision - Tuesday 21 June, 2022
# Human Rights
# Human Rights
The national anti-trafficking rapporteur listed education, the war in Ukraine and age identification as concerns.
# direct-provision - Friday 17 June, 2022
# Fáilte
# Fáilte
The Singh family, who live in direct provision in Cork, say that making the masks was about ‘giving back’ to a country they arrived in over four and a half years ago.
# direct-provision - Tuesday 31 May, 2022
# Factcheck
Arrivals to a Dublin centre were given different coloured wristbands depending on their race according to an activist group. Wristbands determined access to beds with Ukrainian arrivals given beds while other asylum seekers slept on the floor, the group alleged. The group, Abolish Direct Provision Campaign, called on Minister Roderic O'Gorman to resign.
# direct-provision - Tuesday 3 May, 2022
# Integration
# Integration
Asylum seekers who spoke to researchers praised supports such as counselling but said their treatment in some situations made integration difficult.
# direct-provision - Wednesday 16 March, 2022
# Opinion
# Opinion
Author and medieval historian Elizabeth Boyle writes that tomorrow we should reflect on how we can write a new chapter of Ireland’s history.
# direct-provision - Monday 21 February, 2022
# Direct Provision
# Direct Provision
Artists claim Direct Provision operators ‘have no place in our National Gallery.’
# direct-provision - Thursday 17 February, 2022
# National Gallery
Aramark, an American corporation, took over running the gallery's cafe on 14 February, Brianna Parkins writes. Staff asked the gallery's board members earlier this month to reconsider Aramark's suitability for catering contract. Company currently operates three Direct Provision centres for the State in Cork, Clare and Westmeath.
# direct-provision - Thursday 27 January, 2022
# Direct Provision
# Direct Provision
The PAC has made a number of recommendations on the system.
# direct-provision - Saturday 4 December, 2021
# Life In Direct Provision
# Life In Direct Provision
Activist and artist Vukašin Nedeljković writes about their three years in Direct Provision, and showing people the ‘everyday realities’ of asylum seekers.
# direct-provision - Tuesday 23 November, 2021
# Salthill
# Salthill
“Food is not served to residents in plastic bags,” a spokesperson for the International Protection Accommodation Service said.
# direct-provision - Tuesday 9 November, 2021
# High Court
# High Court
Some legal experts have said that new legislation is not required, rather a different interpretation of the current law.
# direct-provision - Sunday 3 October, 2021
# Direct Provision
# Direct Provision
Asylum seekers with disabilities in Direct Provision must be afforded equal rights when compared to people with disabilities outside Direct Provision, Keelin Barry writes.
# direct-provision - Sunday 26 September, 2021
# Opinion
# Opinion
The end of Direct Provision by December 2024 is doubtful as more than 4000 asylum seekers await their claims to be assesed, writes Bulelani Mfaco.
# direct-provision - Thursday 23 September, 2021
# Direct Provision
# Direct Provision
The government earlier this year published its plan for a new system with not-for-profit accommodation.
# direct-provision - Monday 16 August, 2021
# Housing
The Government has committed to ending Direct Provision by 2024. However, there are fears this could be difficult without access to State lands, Cónal Thomas reports. Sinn Féin had called for the Land Development Agency to build some asylum accommodation.
# direct-provision - Sunday 8 August, 2021
# Direct Provision
# Direct Provision
Protection applicants are waiting almost 27 months for a decision on their application.
# direct-provision - Friday 18 June, 2021
# The Good Information Project
The housing problem is at its most acute among minority groups, such as Travellers, migrants and asylum seekers. Cormac Fitzgerald, for The Good Information Project, examines the figures and the significant barriers to access to secure living arrangements. "It's an absolutely appalling national disgrace," says Bernard Joyce of the Irish Traveller Movement.
# direct-provision - Tuesday 8 June, 2021
# Direct Provision
# Direct Provision
The move is part of the government’s plan to end the institutionalised Direct Provision system by 2024.
# direct-provision - Friday 7 May, 2021
# Housing Crisis
# Housing Crisis
Eoin Ó Broin says these people should be included in the government’s homelessness figures.
# direct-provision - Tuesday 27 April, 2021
# Children
# Children
Staff at one centre were found to have not been vetted to work with children.
# direct-provision - Saturday 24 April, 2021
# History Repeating Itself
# History Repeating Itself
Ireland is repeating the mistakes of mother and baby homes, social workers have warned.
# direct-provision - Thursday 25 March, 2021
# Direct Provision
# Direct Provision
Only 61 complaints were received by the Office of the Ombudsman in 2020, dropping from 168 in 2019.
# direct-provision - Monday 15 March, 2021
# Eyes Right
# Eyes Right
The first in a four-part investigation into the growth of far-right activity online in Ireland explores how an anti-immigration agenda infiltrated local activism.
# direct-provision - Thursday 4 March, 2021
# Podcast
# Podcast
Activist Ola Mustapha, Nick Henderson of the Irish Refugee Council and reporter Cónal Thomas talk us through it.
# direct-provision - Friday 26 February, 2021
# Asylum Seekers
# Asylum Seekers
Plans to end Direct Provision by 2024 were unveiled today.
# Asylum
# Asylum
The Government’s White Paper published today will lay out measures to overhaul the controversial privatised system.
# direct-provision - Sunday 21 February, 2021
# INTERNATIONAL PROTECTION
# INTERNATIONAL PROTECTION
It comes after a number of TDs and Senators called for greater transparency.
# direct-provision - Thursday 28 January, 2021
# Protection
# Protection
Asylum seekers will need to wait six months instead of nine before they can apply for permission to work in Ireland.
# direct-provision - Wednesday 27 January, 2021
# Irish Refugee Council
# Irish Refugee Council
There are currently more than 7,000 people living in Direct Provision.
# direct-provision - Wednesday 16 December, 2020
# White Paper
# White Paper
A White Paper on replacing the controversial system was due to be completed and submitted to Cabinet by late December.
# direct-provision - Wednesday 21 October, 2020
# Direct Provision
# Direct Provision
Dr Day said today the current Direct Provision system is “reactive” and said that people living in the system “bear the consequences” of its failures.
# DAY REPORT
# DAY REPORT
A report drawn up by former Secretary General of the European Commission Dr Catherine Day has made a number of sweeping recommendations.
# direct-provision - Saturday 17 October, 2020
# DAY REPORT
# DAY REPORT
An expert group, led by former Secretary General of the European Commission Dr Catherine Day, has sent a list of recommendations to Government.
# direct-provision - Friday 18 September, 2020
# Homelessness
# Homelessness
Homeless charity Depaul has helped 256 people move out of DP centres in recent months.
# direct-provision - Friday 11 September, 2020
# Testing
# Testing
The testing rollout follows a recommendation from NPHET.
# Skellig Star
# Skellig Star
The Skellig Star Hotel was at the centre of a media storm earlier this year after an outbreak of Covid-19 among residents.
# direct-provision - Wednesday 9 September, 2020
# Coronavirus
# Coronavirus
Mass testing at meat plants has indicated levels of infection among workers is now very low.
# direct-provision - Tuesday 18 August, 2020
# Coronavirus
# Coronavirus
Earlier today, Health Minister Stephen Donnelly confirmed a further 120 cases of Covid-19 in Ireland.
# direct-provision - Friday 14 August, 2020
# Covid-19
# Covid-19
This comes after clusters at four meat plants led to a localised lockdown in Kildare, Offaly and Laois.
# direct-provision - Thursday 13 August, 2020
# Open Letter
# Open Letter
“As a country we must do better,” according to about 150 signatories.
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