Exploring Direct Provision

Exploring Direct Provision: Why Now?

- 1st November 20191st November 2019 - Liam Thornton

We are approaching twenty years of the system of direct provision for asylum seekers in Ireland. The phrase 'direct provision' is short-hand for the communal accommodation, food, low weekly payment, health and education rights that…

Reception Conditions Regulation Decisions

Launching the Reception Conditions Regulations Decisions Database

- 25th November 2019 - Liam Thornton

Today, the Exploring Direct Provision project launches the Reception Conditions Decisions Database. Since June 2018, the International Protection Appeals Tribunal (IPAT) has had jurisdiction to determine certain issues regarding an individual's reception rights under the…

Direct Provision Allowance

Marking International Children’s Day: Direct Provision Allowance and…

- 20th November 201920th November 2019 - Liam Thornton

Today (20 November 2019) is the 60th anniversary of the UN General Assembly Declaration on the Rights of the Child and the 30th anniversary of the adoption of the UN Convention on the Rights of…

Direct Provision Allowance

Embedding Direct Provision Allowance in State Practice and…

- 18th November 201918th November 2019 - Liam Thornton

From 2004, the Department of Social and Family Affairs interpreted the habitual residence condition in Irish social welfare law as definitively removing asylum seekers from entitlement to all social welfare payments, but for direct provision…

Direct Provision Allowance

Direct Provision Allowance 1999-2005: Institutional Foundations

- 15th November 201915th November 2019 - Liam Thornton

During the establishment of direct provision accommodation centres, the question of weekly cash payments for asylum seekers were also discussed. In November 1999, the Department of Social and Family Affairs (now Department of Employment Affairs…

Direct Provision Accommodation / Exploring Direct Provision

Discourses on Reforming Direct Provision Accommodation Centres

- 13th November 201913th November 2019 - Liam Thornton

There has never been any real whole-of-government evaluation of the degree to which direct provision accommodation centres should continue to be utilised. At least on a simple monetary evaluation, the Department of Justice found in…

Direct Provision Accommodation / Exploring Direct Provision

State Reponses to Institutionalised Living in Direct Provision

- 7th November 201913th November 2019 - Liam Thornton

The Direct Provision Files provide an insight into responses to institutionalised living within direct provision accommodation centres. Given low weekly allowances, who should cover costs of items such as nappies (diapers) for children, the cost…

Direct Provision Accommodation / Exploring Direct Provision

‘For Just Six Months’: Establishing Direct Provision Accommodation…

- 5th November 201913th November 2019 - Liam Thornton

The introduction of direct provision accommodation for asylum seekers was planned throughout 1998 to 2000. Prior to its introduction, asylum seekers were entitled to rent supplement, and could source their own accommodation in the private…

Supported by UCD Seed Funding (Grant No. SF1697)