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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Rights-Based Care for People with Disabilities: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Eileen Flynn: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Rights-Based Care for People with Disabilities: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Eileen Flynn: Why is that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Rights-Based Care for People with Disabilities: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Eileen Flynn: We could put that down as a recommendation in the report and we could lobby on that and push it through.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Rights-Based Care for People with Disabilities: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Eileen Flynn: One-hundred percent.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Rights-Based Care for People with Disabilities: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Eileen Flynn: But it is also important we implement the recommendations that have been made.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Consent Programmes in Irish Education: Discussion (7 Nov 2023)

Eileen Flynn: I am so privileged to go out to schools and to be invited in to be a guest speaker in the programmes in some schools around active consent, gender equality etc. I remember working with the Donegal Rape Crisis Centre two years ago around active consent in schools. It told me it was underfunded and did not know if it would be able to roll it out the next year to transition year students. ...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Consent Programmes in Irish Education: Discussion (7 Nov 2023)

Eileen Flynn: The Department needs to consider that because active consent includes every single child in the school. It is a matter of having the conversations with the parents as well, which is really important. On funding, Donegal Rape Crisis Centre was doing active consent training in some schools for a year but could not roll it out to other schools. The younger we can reach the children –...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Consent Programmes in Irish Education: Discussion (7 Nov 2023)

Eileen Flynn: It a case of looking at where we are today rather than ten or 15 years ago.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Consent Programmes in Irish Education: Discussion (7 Nov 2023)

Eileen Flynn: I thank the witnesses.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Consent Programmes in Irish Education: Discussion (7 Nov 2023)

Eileen Flynn: Even for youth groups outreach is important. The non-formal education in those settings can be more effective in some cases.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Consent Programmes in Irish Education: Discussion (7 Nov 2023)

Eileen Flynn: Never say there is enough money.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Consent Programmes in Irish Education: Discussion (7 Nov 2023)

Eileen Flynn: It is really about valuing the active consent programme and the other programmes. We see the Rape Crisis Centre going into schools doing work. Some of those programmes are only working from year to year. Overall, the question is how do we invest. This is something the committee will keep pushing. From being a member of this committee for the last two years, I see that we expect an...

Seanad: Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Oct 2023)

Eileen Flynn: I move amendment No. 2 : In page 7, between lines 24 and 25, to insert the following: “(b) does not include any devices or systems that are capable of processing the record made under paragraph (a) with facial recognition technology,”. The amendment would enhance the definition of "recording device" to clarify that no data collected with a Garda recording device could be...

Seanad: Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Oct 2023)

Eileen Flynn: I move amendment No. 5: In page 10, between lines 10 and 11, to insert the following: “(2) A member of Garda personnel shall operate, or cause to be operated, a recording device where they are requested to do so by an individual with whom they are engaged in the course of their duties.”. Amendments Nos. 5 and 6 would require gardaí to turn on their bodycams if...

Seanad: Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Oct 2023)

Eileen Flynn: Are we discussing amendment No. 5?

Seanad: Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Oct 2023)

Eileen Flynn: On amendments Nos. 5 and 6, the Minister outlined why she is not accepting the amendments and Senator Ward also made points on them. I have seen communities overpoliced. People might think that I am anti-Garda but I am far from it. We need a certain level of Garda protection for all citizens. That is common sense. What we are talking about is fairness for people. If the body-worn camera...

Seanad: Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Oct 2023)

Eileen Flynn: Amendment No. 11 relates to notifying people that the cameras are on, whether in a public or private place. I stress that I am not anti-gardaí - far from it - but I have seen numerous times in certain areas in Dublin situations in which people's doors were kicked down, etc. A lot of gardaí already wear bodycams. We need to be realistic in this regard. On a morning last April, I...

Seanad: Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Oct 2023)

Eileen Flynn: I move amendment No. 6: In page 10, between lines 10 and 11, to insert the following: "(2) A member of Garda personnel shall operate, or cause to be operated, a recording device where they are requested to do so by an individual with whom they are engaged in the course of their duties, except where the member reasonably believes that the making of a recording would be harmful to the...

Seanad: Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Oct 2023)

Eileen Flynn: I move amendment No. 9: In page 10, between lines 23 and 24, to insert the following: "(c) is requested to do so by a member of the public,".

Seanad: Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Oct 2023)

Eileen Flynn: I move amendment No. 11: In page 11, lines 12 and 13, to delete ", when operating the device in a dwelling, and where appropriate, notify the occupants at the start of the operation and record the notification" and substitute "notify all subjects of the recording at the start of the operation and record the notification".