Years after promise of a new integration strategy, Dublin City Council still doesn’t have one
There’s a desperate need for a roadmap to improve efforts to help people navigate immigrant life, and connect, say councillors and community workers.
Each essayist in the volume, in some way, grapples with Gerry Cahill’s projects in the context of today, says Eimear Arthur, a co-editor.
Almost three-quarters of people incarcerated in Irish prisons have some form of substance addiction – but face long waits for treatment.
Residents, who have fed into designs, say they would greatly welcome the amenities – which would be built where, until recently, a giant illegal dump towered over them.
The longest queue is in Dublin’s Mountjoy, where more than 240 people languish on the waitlist for counselling for substance addiction.
Studies have found that asylum seekers are more likely than the general population to have post-traumatic stress disorder and depression.
And when it does happen, will it be matched with investment in detox beds? And should it now cater, also, to the growing number of crack cocaine users?
The HSE has cut the group’s funding and is also looking to use the rooms in the building they’ve been operating from.
“Our employees are critical to our efforts and as we supply the world with our vaccine, we are looking at ways to protect and care for our people,” a Pfizer spokesperson said.
Tens of groups across the city are offering supports to those who need them, and they’ve learnt a few things already about the best ways to stay safe and be useful.
Councillors will continue with the business they usually conduct in their committee meetings, but they’ll do it over email – rather then at public meetings.
“It is all well and good the government saying to self-isolate, but you can’t do that if you have nowhere to live,” says Cameron Neilson.
Among other projects, Áine O’Hara is working on an interactive game show where people can come into the gallery and play to win or lose their health.