Colette Kelleher (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I endorse the comments made by Deputies Barry and Ó Broin. Given the time, I will not delay. Time is against us but can this committee - I am a visitor as opposed to a permanent member of the committee - commit to maintaining a watching brief over the review, which we have now, to make sure that there are no undue delays in that review and that it does not end up being another talking shop with another report telling us things we already know? I am very conscious of what Mr. Collins said, that housing is an enabling right. If one does not have housing, one does not have health. I was really struck when Mr. Reilly said at the Joint Committee on the Future of Mental Health Care that 95% of Travellers are dead by the time they are 65 years of age. That is such an arresting statistic and there are many others. Would the committee commit to having a watching brief on this? Would it commit to dates today and come back to the table again so that we keep the pressure and the focus on this? We all have good days in front of committees but then the bandwagon moves on to something else. This committee can play its part by overseeing that. It is a suggestion and I am anxious to hear the responses to the questions of others as well.