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Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)

Eileen Flynn: We will have to move swiftly along to give other members the opportunity to come in. I have some good questions to ask at the end. I call Deputy Stanton.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)

Eileen Flynn: Where does the Traveller accommodation budget come from?

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)

Eileen Flynn: To be fair, we must move on to Deputy Joan Collins.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)

Eileen Flynn: I am calling Deputy Mitchell now because she has to go to the House in a few minutes.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)

Eileen Flynn: I call Mr. Ó Donnabháin to answer Deputy Collins's questions.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)

Eileen Flynn: Is the Deputy happy with that? Were all of her questions answered? She did have a lot.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)

Eileen Flynn: I propose that we publish on our website the letter received from the Minister and our letter to the Minister. Is that agreed? Agreed. I have a few questions. In private session last week, we discussed the root cause of why people do not like members of the Traveller community living beside them and the levels of hatred, discrimination and racism that unfortunately still exist in...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)

Eileen Flynn: It is something that is seen frequently in halting sites. I remember that, in 2017, a man in the area who had a lorry filled with rubbish brought it into the site. I remember going after him and telling him that although we might be members of the Traveller community, we were not dirt and were not going to allow him to dump on our site. The rubbish was coming from outside of the site into...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)

Eileen Flynn: I thank Mr. Ó Donnabháin.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)

Eileen Flynn: No one from the Roma community has applied for accommodation.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)

Eileen Flynn: Okay. That is interesting.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)

Eileen Flynn: It is an off-the-cuff question-----

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)

Eileen Flynn: It is something the committee should be bringing more attention to. I thank the witnesses for coming before the committee today. The evidence and submissions the witnesses provided today are useful and helpful. It is great news for the community of Cork that stage 2 of redevelopment has been funded. I thank Cork City Council for that. I thank both Cork City Council and Mayo County...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)

Eileen Flynn: I remind members that they must be physically present within Leinster House to take part in the committee meeting. I will not allow members to take part in this meeting if they are not on the grounds of Leinster House. The evidence of witnesses physically present in Leinster House is protected by absolute privilege. Witnesses should not criticise or make charges against any person by name...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)

Eileen Flynn: I will read out some of the letter we got from the Minister of State, Deputy O'Donnell. It is important we have it on the record. I am pleased to inform you that following an examination of the Stage 2 application for the redevelopment my Department recently granted Stage 2 approval to Cork City Council for a budget [...] of €17.9m. I thank the Minister of State for working with...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)

Eileen Flynn: Okay. This is the committee on key Traveller issues and I understand what Mr. Gilligan is saying about communities and the consultations around refugees and the Traveller community but I think they are two separate issues that need to be treated equally, with dignity and respect and we should never state that one community is more important than another. While I get that Mr. Gilligan is...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (31 Jan 2024)

Eileen Flynn: Yesterday, I brought up the issue of hate crime legislation and asked where that legislation is now.I and other members of ethic minority groups, as well as LGBTQI+ communities and disabled people, believe this legislation is extremely important. Sadly, it is evidently required in society. I again call for a date to be set for Committee Stage of the Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence...

Seanad: Family Carers: Motion [Private Members] (31 Jan 2024)

Eileen Flynn: I am glad to have the opportunity to speak on this very important matter this evening. Care is at the core of our communities and our connections. We need to start looking at care differently and speaking about it differently. We should not use cost to measure the impact of care because our society is built on care. Care often lays the foundation for persons to live independently. This...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Jan 2024)

Eileen Flynn: This afternoon I want to call again for strong hate crime legislation. Unfortunately, due to the volume of emails received over the summer and in the last few months about its hate crime legislation, the Government has paused it, ignoring the fact that many NGOs and people from minority groups, including the Irish Traveller Movement and Migrant Rights Centre Ireland, have been fighting for...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Disability Services (24 Jan 2024)

Eileen Flynn: I welcome the Minister of State to the House.