Covid-19 compels us to end cruel, failed costly system for refugees to Ireland
Fr Paddy Byrne writes about what people face in Direct Provision and how the pandemic highlights its failings
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19 Apr 2021
Entering the Montague Hotel Emo Direct Provision Centre in 2017 were Msgr John Byrne, Fr Paddy Byrne, the then Senator John Whelan and the then Minister of State for Communities, Culture and Equality );
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Direct Provision has been a cruel and harsh system that has failed utterly in terms of how we as a country evaluate Asylum Seekers request to live among us.
Whilst regulation and assessment are important, a system that has left men, women and children restricted for up to 10 years in cases in a limbo situation is outrageous. The recent reports concerning Mother and Baby homes of the past has rightly evoked great anger, hurt and pain.
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