A key element of Ireland’s current reception regime for asylum seekers is the direct provision allowance payment. Direct provision allowance … More
Tag: Reception and Integration Agency
Blog Symposium 4: Direct Provision Centres & the EU Reception Directive
Asylum seekers have a non-legislative right to shelter in Ireland. Rather than this right to shelter being provided under legislation, … More
Direct Provision in the Irish High Court: The Decision
This post summarises some of the main grounds of challenge to the direct provision system in the case and the … More
Direct Provision, Local Elections & Political Campaigning
There have been some developments in the last few hours as regards local election candidates and political campaigning in direct provision … More
Direct Provision: Minister Shatter Responds (and Paging Minister Burton)
Yesterday (October 9 2013) in the Dáil, the Minister for Justice, Alan Shatter TD responded to Carl O’ Brien’s series of articles on the … More
The Ombudsman & Direct Provision
Yesterday, the Ombudsman, Emily O’Reilly launched a well reasoned critique of the direct provision system (news coverage here and all Human Rights in Ireland’s posts on … More
Liam Thornton 