Small quick thread #EndDirectProvision the outpouring of support for #UnsealTheArchives was urgent and completely necessary and the campaign is not over until people can have easy and dignified access to their records and our state fully faces up to the violence it committed. 
Ireland is still institutionalising people. Today. We will have to account also for the damage done to people within the Direct Provision System in Ireland. But first we have to end it. There are currently 7,151 people in DP.
There are 201 people in Direct Provision now who have spent between 6 and 14 years of their precious only lives there. There are children who have spent up to 9 years living in DP.
I fully and totally support the #UnsealTheArchives campaign and am not trying to in any way pit one campaign against the other - we need to succeed with both - to fail at either one is us in our own time failing to put an end to gross injustice in which we are made complicit
At the moment the Government has received the Catherine Day Report on Ending Direct Provision- it contains very strong steps towards ending DP by 2023 we've seen reports come and go but we have this one and we need to make the Govt implement it and accept nothing less.
I am certain we will already have to hold commissions of investigation into our institutionalisation of asylum seekers- there is 20 years of damage done already. Alobng with those who have endured it, lets be the people who end it. This is the point of my thread. Thank you.
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