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The national anti-trafficking rapporteur listed education, the war in Ukraine and age identification as concerns.
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.
Asylum seekers who spoke to researchers praised supports such as counselling but said their treatment in some situations made integration difficult.
Author and medieval historian Elizabeth Boyle writes that tomorrow we should reflect on how we can write a new chapter of Ireland’s history.
Artists claim Direct Provision operators ‘have no place in our National Gallery.’
The PAC has made a number of recommendations on the system.
Activist and artist Vukašin Nedeljković writes about their three years in Direct Provision, and showing people the ‘everyday realities’ of asylum seekers.
“Food is not served to residents in plastic bags,” a spokesperson for the International Protection Accommodation Service said.
Some legal experts have said that new legislation is not required, rather a different interpretation of the current law.
Asylum seekers with disabilities in Direct Provision must be afforded equal rights when compared to people with disabilities outside Direct Provision, Keelin Barry writes.
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.
The government earlier this year published its plan for a new system with not-for-profit accommodation.
Protection applicants are waiting almost 27 months for a decision on their application.
The move is part of the government’s plan to end the institutionalised Direct Provision system by 2024.
Eoin Ó Broin says these people should be included in the government’s homelessness figures.
Staff at one centre were found to have not been vetted to work with children.
Ireland is repeating the mistakes of mother and baby homes, social workers have warned.
Only 61 complaints were received by the Office of the Ombudsman in 2020, dropping from 168 in 2019.
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.
Activist Ola Mustapha, Nick Henderson of the Irish Refugee Council and reporter Cónal Thomas talk us through it.
Plans to end Direct Provision by 2024 were unveiled today.
The Government’s White Paper published today will lay out measures to overhaul the controversial privatised system.
It comes after a number of TDs and Senators called for greater transparency.
Asylum seekers will need to wait six months instead of nine before they can apply for permission to work in Ireland.
There are currently more than 7,000 people living in Direct Provision.
A White Paper on replacing the controversial system was due to be completed and submitted to Cabinet by late December.
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.
A report drawn up by former Secretary General of the European Commission Dr Catherine Day has made a number of sweeping recommendations.
An expert group, led by former Secretary General of the European Commission Dr Catherine Day, has sent a list of recommendations to Government.
Homeless charity Depaul has helped 256 people move out of DP centres in recent months.
The testing rollout follows a recommendation from NPHET.
The Skellig Star Hotel was at the centre of a media storm earlier this year after an outbreak of Covid-19 among residents.
Mass testing at meat plants has indicated levels of infection among workers is now very low.
Earlier today, Health Minister Stephen Donnelly confirmed a further 120 cases of Covid-19 in Ireland.
This comes after clusters at four meat plants led to a localised lockdown in Kildare, Offaly and Laois.
“As a country we must do better,” according to about 150 signatories.