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A NEW RECEPTION SYSTEM for asylum seekers has been proposed by the Irish Refugee Council which they say is more humane and cheaper for the state.
In a new report published by the IRC says that Ireland is “failing to meet its international obligations” under the current direct provision system for asylum seekers.
They say that specialised reception centres must reflect that asylum seekers are a ‘particularly underprivileged and vulnerable population’ and provide a ‘one-stop shop’ where accommodation and legal services can be provided.
Th IRC say that the direct provision system was envisaged to house asylum seekers for six months but at present most residents have been in the system for over three years with some housed for more than seven years.
Addressing this issue must be central to any solution say they IRC who recommend asylum seekers be “transferred to independent living within a maximum of six months”.
The report says that “respect for the dignity of the individual and of family life should be a principle underpinning the accommodation” with parents being given the opportunity to parent in “as self-contained as a family unit as possible.”
The report also recommends that:
In line with all other EU countries, asylum seekers should be granted access to the labour market after six months to allow them to maintain their skills and employability.
“We cannot continue to ignore the impact of Direct Provision on children who are growing up in an environment where the risk is that they fail to thrive, with unknown consequences for the future,” said Justice Catherine McGuinness who launched the document.
“I commend this document to the authorities and would invite them to engage with all interested parties in working towards an alternative system that we can all be proud of.”
The full report of the IRC is available here >
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The husband did his very best and ut must have been awful seeing his wife deteriorate but the hosputal unable to cope. Appalling.
Makes me mad that hospital excellence isn’t the prior government priority.
The only priority of this government is to try and fool us all in a couple of years and get back into power
The Government is destroying the public health care system or letting it self destruct. They want the health care for profit. The people should be under no illusion that this will mean even less care for more money. Look at what privation has done to the system in the Netherlands. …..it destroyed it, the country went from one of the most humane efficient systems to one where people are paying enormous sums to private companies for the least cover required by law.
“Dr Peter Boylan says it’s well recognised that Ireland has the lowest number of consultants per head of population in the OECD”. I’d hazard a guess earnings are at the very top levels of the OECD. Pay less, employ more?
Shock horror. Yup, top 2/3 well paid in the OECD even after recent cuts, and twice the pay of uk equivalents. http://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/irish-hospital-consultants-among-highest-paid-in-the-world-1.1850847
Hospitals are on five day week. Go in Friday wait till Monday for attention.
Consultant salaries have already been cut drastically. The result? There’s a mass shortage as consultants emigrate to North America and Australia for far better pay and conditions.
Not a very smart comment about reducing pay when they can’t recruit consultants (or registrars) to work in these jobs in the first place.
If we could only have centres of fully resourced barely adequate competence instead of centres of excellence that would be a good start. Clearly much more could have been done if the resources were there but we have other priorities in Ireland.
She died because she was in the wrong place from day one, a regional hospital without the expertise, in form of consultants, to recognise and treat her condition effectively before it became irreversible. Shocking.
No, it’s a consequence of hundreds of years of religious oppression and lack of a proper, full abortion legislation.
Daniel with a comment like that you must be trolling
This tragic case had nothing to do with abortion.
You knob.wrong case
Pro-choice think has reached a new high.
And around and around and around we go.! We know whats wrong but we do not know how to fix it. And women die and will continue to die,,,,,,
And men Mary, lack of resources etc is not gender specific.
Bad nursing and medical oversight has more to do with it. This new excuse, which may be valid, seems however to be designed to protect the staff on duty in the ward at the time of the lady’s fatal illness and excuse the HSE management.
That nurse tried her best to say patient needed icu but doctors dont care bout nurses opinions
Not to worry, thaw case will probably be used as an excuse to move maternity services out of Sligo hospital now to Galway or Derry or the moon.
Sad but true Carina.
I think using this case to make a point for more consultants is insensitive in the extreme. Our doctors are highly trained and should have been able to make the calls here. It shouldn’t have needed a consultant (who decided to go off to a clinic…).
A better call would be for the consultants to work in line with a 24x7x365 health service rather than suiting themselves to short days, long weekends and private appointments using public infrastructure. The outcome of those changes would not be ‘debatable’.
Lemon,
It’s strange that you think a consultant who is rostered to work in a clinic outside the hospital is in some way ‘suiting himself’
There aren’t enough consultants to staff a 24/7 roster.
There aren’t enough registrars, or SHOs, or interns either for that matter.
All doctors in ireland work far and away in excess of our contracted hours, in underresourced services stretched too thinly to provide the level of care we would like.
Nonsense about people suiting themselves (who exactly would have covered that clinic?) is unhelpful, and that antagonistic attitude is a big part of why the shortage of medical manpower exists.
Corrigan you dope!
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