Department of Cruel and Unusual Rules

POD no longer compulsory

April 9, 2016 No Comments

Good news: As longstanding, longsuffering readers will be aware, for the past year and a bit, I have been arguing that the Primary Online Database (POD) was illegal. Though that argument has not come to a conclusion (and I expect it to be successful) the Department of Education has been forced into a series of […]

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Department of Cruel and Unusual Rules Government Human Rights Reports

Direct Provision: A report recommends…

June 18, 2015 No Comments

There’s nothing that can be done without a report drawn up first, and of course, there’s nothing done once it’s written either, it’ll be ‘under consideration’, ‘in committee’, ‘awaiting review’, ‘we don’t have the budget’.. take your pick. Let’s see what happens when this one lands. (I always live in hope that I’m wrong) Weekly […]

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Department of Cruel and Unusual Rules Government Human Rights

Oireachtas report says direct provision should be scrapped

May 9, 2015 No Comments

A firm call for ending direct provision, but is anyone going to action it? The Oireachtas committee’s report says a section of Irish society is being neglected and discriminated against. It wants its findings to be a wake-up call to the Government, the Oireachtas, the Department of Justice and the related agencies. It also wants […]

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Department of Cruel and Unusual Rules Human Rights Society

About Time

March 30, 2015 No Comments

Practice of jailing minors in adult prisons to end from this week: The practice of admitting minors to adult prisons is to cease from this week onwards. Until now, 17 year olds remanded in custody were typically placed in St Patrick’s Institution for young offenders, which forms part of the Mountjoy Prison complex. The Government […]

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Department of Cruel and Unusual Rules Human Rights

Too poor for love

December 13, 2014 No Comments

The BBC are have reported that a South African man is to be deported, as his wife isn’t earning enough. under rules introduced in 2012, British citizens who want to bring a foreign spouse to the UK must earn £18,600 a year and a further £3,800 – a total of £22,400 – if the couple […]

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Department of Cruel and Unusual Rules Health Human Rights

Direct Provision – failing the vulnerable, yet again

June 12, 2014July 10, 2015 No Comments

Will we learn nothing, no matter how many reports are written? The Myth of the Cherished Child in Ireland: The last number of weeks have seen much hand wringing and pretense of ‘not knowing’ from government, politicians and the public at large to the treatment of mothers and children for many decades in Ireland. The […]

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Murf

POD no longer compulsory

Direct Provision: A report recommends…

Oireachtas report says direct provision should be scrapped

About Time

Too poor for love

Direct Provision – failing the vulnerable, yet again

Category: Department of Cruel and Unusual Rules

POD no longer compulsory

Direct Provision: A report recommends…

Oireachtas report says direct provision should be scrapped

About Time

Too poor for love

Direct Provision – failing the vulnerable, yet again