From the Exploring Direct Provision project by UCD law lecturer Liam Thornton; at a direct provision protest; Liam Thornton
Law lecturer at University College Dublin Liam Thornton has today published 2,000-plus pages of material that he obtained under the Freedom of Information Act pertaining to direct provision.
It includes correspondence between the Department of Justice, the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection, the Department of Housing and the HSE, between 1997 and 2018.
It follows months of work by Mr Thornton.
In fairness.
Previously: Preventing Social Amnesia (2013)
In short: Direct provision dehumanises asylum seeking people and enriches other people. End it.
there’s loads of well connected people getting rich out of the housing crisis…DP being a branch of it. as for ending it..the only way to end it is to speed up asylum cases.
We have a lot of people in direct provision, who were not brought in by the
government as refuges’s, how did this group gain access to the country since
its an island, there is something mysterious on how access was achieved
is there organised trafficing and has it links to certain loyalist elements around
Belfast with the purpose of destabilising south of the border to cause racial
turmoil
Well done Liam Thornton, this looks like a large undertaking. The real story of DP needs to be examined. I would be interested in what the EU order regarding DP was and currently is and also at what point are we relieved from their direction and the gov gets to decide their own response to DP. Do all other EU countries have to offer DP services and in the same ratio relative to population?