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The abhorrent âdirect provisionâ will end, but there is still no guarantee that people such as me will be treated as fully human
âUnder the system of direct provision, the Irish state hired private contractors to accommodate and feed asylum seekers,.â Photograph: Brian Lawless/PA
âUnder the system of direct provision, the Irish state hired private contractors to accommodate and feed asylum seekers,.â Photograph: Brian Lawless/PA
Tue 2 Mar 2021 05.00 EST
Last modified on Wed 3 Mar 2021 07.54 EST
In 2000 the Irish government introduced a policy for asylum seekers called direct provision, which still holds to this day. Before then, Ireland treated asylum seekers no differently to the way Irish citizens were treated when accessing accommodation, healthcare or other support â but from that date on, they would be removed from general housing and welfare systems.
There’s never a bad time to do the right thing. Yet for a country with an emigration record like ours, two decades is a very long wait to address glaring inequalities in the direct provision system.
That it has taken 20 years to address what was intended as a temporary emergency response leaves a stain on our human rights record.
The toll taken on all who came to our shores to be greeted with such indignities has been officially side-stepped for too long. We owe it to the millions who left our shores fleeing famine between 1799 and 1858, and who found a home on other shores, to do better.