The system of #directprovision is twenty years old today. #directprovision didn't always exist, Ireland didn't always institutionalise asylum applicants https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2685035
But there have been greenshoots also. @JillianvT was the first politician to put #directprovision on the agenda in the Oireachtas!
Which brings us to #Covid_19ireland - some very NB changes in last while, at least for duration of crisis. Far from ideal #directprovision but it at least allows us to see what suddenly can be done, and provides a path to what can be further done. In sum: #EndDirectProvision
The #Covid19_ireland Unemployment Payment made to protection seekers who lost work, where they are not in #directprovision centres. Those in #directprovision centres not entitled to the payment. Really unclear why this distinction. Hardly justified by @welfare_ie in this email
Many people in #directprovision simply cannot abide by best medical and Govt advice on social distancing. Some, albeit limited, recognition of this of late, and planning on this-less people sharing rooms, movement between centres and hotels. #covidー19ireland
But significant issues remain- see @masi_asylum tweets on #Covid_19ireland and #directprovision. And comments in recent days (Bertie Ahern first used this excuse in May 2000) from Min for Justice of "nobody forced to remain in DP"....
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