Governments seldom fulfil promises made in pre election manifestos or even Programmes for Government. So the small and fractured Green Party can be happy that when it disappears again from public prominence, it will have left yet another toxic legacy as it did in 2011. For a party that only won 7% of the vote in the […]
The problem with Direct Provision isn’t just that the system is a disaster. It’s that 90% of applicants are not asylum seekers at all. Now, the government’s new plan for housing immigrants will make an already crippling housing crisis even worse, and allow thousands of migrants to bring their families here with a built-in right […]
There has been an overwhelming increase in County Waterford’s migrant population over the last two and a half decades, the local council has heard. According to Ivan Grimes, Director of Services for Waterford County Council, the proportion of migrants living in Waterford has increased from 1 in 20 in 1995, to 1 in 7 today […]
A government advisory group says that the direct provision system will cost some €200 million to provide in 2020. A Briefing note on the ongoing work of the Advisory Group on Direct Provision, which is being Chaired by Dr Catherine Day, is seeking costings from Government on what “an alternative system would look like.” The Advisory […]
Events are moving rapidly with regard to the formation of a new government. It seems widely expected that a decision may be made today. At the heart of this is whether Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael agree to most of Green Party demands, including “red line” of annual cuts in carbon emissions of 7% until […]
The Department of Justice has said concerns about the spread of coronavirus prompted them to transfer 150 asylum seekers to a new Direct Provision centre in Cahersiveen, Kerry.
Why direct provision policy and the government’s neglect of rural Ireland is a toxic combination. JOHN McGUIRK talks to Ben Scallan Full Interview: The challenges facing future governments: link soon #gript #ge2020 #generalelection2020
‘IRISH people are being discriminated against.’ Cllr John Leahy says the Department is playing with words, and that local people are being leapfrogged in terms of providing housing and healthcare for migrants and asylum seekers. He says this will cause anger and the system needs to treat everyone equally. #gript https://youtu.be/8Tol3IYKpsU
Local people in Tullamore are being “leapfrogged” for housing and services, and are ‘angry and frustrated’ at the lack of consultation with the community before the announcement that a new direct provision centre would be opened, according to local politicians. Carol Nolan, the Independent TD for Offaly has called on the Department of Justice to suspend proposals to […]
The Journal.ie reports this morning that there appears to be no end in sight to Ireland’s newly declared direct provision wars: THE GOVERNMENT IS looking at housing thousands of asylum seekers in new Direct Provision centres in the coming years. The numbers of people arriving to seek international protection in the state has risen 50% […]
Boris Johnson may well end up losing the British General election – but if he does, it won’t be because of his policy on immigration. For the last ten days he has hammered the opposition Labour Party for favouring an open immigration policy, with no restrictions on freedom of movement, while saying that if re-elected, […]
The Taoiseach was out and about this morning, giving a speech to the annual conference of the immigrant council of Ireland. Immigration has been something of a hot button of late, with controversies over direct provision erupting across the country. The Government is committed to introducing hate speech legislation to try and clamp down on […]