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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Apr 2022)

Eileen Flynn: I will not keep the committee a minute. On education, consent and sex education in school and our education system, I know of many Traveller children who were told they did not have to do sex education or consent education on the grounds of culture. I have seen this with Muslim people and black people too. That is something that needs to be addressed. I welcome the Men's Development...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Apr 2022)

Eileen Flynn: To be fair, I am not saying it is the staff in the refuges because that is part of the point.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Apr 2022)

Eileen Flynn: I rang Safe Ireland 100 times and I have networks in there where I am able to get good support for women on the ground. It is just that refuges are not invested in and that they do not meet people's needs.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Strategies (27 Apr 2022)

Eileen Flynn: The Traveller community is facing a mental health crisis. This is not the first time I have raised the issue in the House. The previous Minister of State with responsibility for mental health, former Deputy Jim Daly, recognised more than two years ago that there was a mental health crisis among the members of the Traveller community. The programme for Government promised a national...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Strategies (27 Apr 2022)

Eileen Flynn: I thank the Minister of State. She is here on behalf of Deputy Butler. She said individuals have sat on that advisory group but it is not even a permanent structure. In the programme for Government we were promised a stand-alone mental health strategy. Unfortunately, we have not gotten the answers we needed today. I am not doing this for Eileen Flynn; I am doing this on behalf of the...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Strategies (27 Apr 2022)

Eileen Flynn: I thank the Minister of State for her time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Humanitarian Risk Situations and Emergencies: Discussion (28 Apr 2022)

Eileen Flynn: I thank the witnesses for being here. I do not want to repeat what other members have touched on. People with disabilities should be at the heart of all discussions in society and should have a space in both Houses of the Oireachtas. Will the witnesses give practical suggestions in respect of how we can build expertise and capacity in disabled persons' organisations? Many of them are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Situations of Risk and Humanitarian Emergencies: Discussion (Resumed) (5 May 2022)

Eileen Flynn: I thank the witnesses for coming in. We think a lot about refugees from Ukraine coming over, but we rarely touch on people with disabilities who are coming here and the supports they need. That is not covered in the media. As the witnesses outlined, we do not want to go back to segregated settings. We want to go from the real to the ideal. These homes are real solutions. The ideal will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Situations of Risk and Humanitarian Emergencies: Discussion (Resumed) (5 May 2022)

Eileen Flynn: If Ms Dmytriieva would like to explain or say anything else to this committee, or speak more about her own personal experience, we would like to hear from her. If she does not want to, that is okay as well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Situations of Risk and Humanitarian Emergencies: Discussion (Resumed) (5 May 2022)

Eileen Flynn: Yes.

Seanad: Europe Day 2022: Statements (11 May 2022)

Eileen Flynn: I thank the Cathaoirleach Gníomach. I also welcome the students from St. Joseph's College, Lucan. It is always brilliant to see young people in the House. I am going to put a different spin on marking Europe Day. I would like all of us to look at this as a day of reflection, as Senator Chambers has already said. Ireland, as a small nation, has made our voice heard at the highest...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 May 2022)

Eileen Flynn: I wish to raise an important issue on the Order of Business that I brought to the attention of this House in January 2021 concerning cases of hepatitis. At the time, I genuinely thought it was unique to have cases of hepatitis in Ireland. Today it was reported on RTÉ News that unfortunately, a young child has died from hepatitis. Another young child needs a liver transplant due to...

Seanad: Media Report on Governance in Local Authorities: Statements (12 May 2022)

Eileen Flynn: I have spoken in this House time and again about the continued failure of some local authorities. To name just one issue, I will focus a little on their failure to provide Traveller accommodation year after year. During my ten years of working in this area with members of the Traveller community and in the area of accommodation, I have found that things in local authorities fall apart more...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Employment and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (12 May 2022)

Eileen Flynn: I could not hear half of that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Employment and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (12 May 2022)

Eileen Flynn: Is that okay, Chairman? It is not fair to the witnesses if we cannot hear half of what they are saying.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Employment and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (12 May 2022)

Eileen Flynn: I thank the witnesses for coming before the committee. Their contributions on employment have been very interesting. I am interested to hear about how these schemes can empower disabled people to have choices and control over their own lives and the work they want to do after their experiences on the farms or taking part in the schemes. How have disabled people been able to secure paid...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Employment and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (12 May 2022)

Eileen Flynn: Do the farmers get money for having people?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Employment and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (12 May 2022)

Eileen Flynn: I was fascinated listening to Mr. McManus speaking about how his experience on the farm progressed his life. It is remarkable what the farm can do, but there is something badly wrong with our system when the farmers get paid instead of the people who are doing the jobs. This is not an attack on Social Farming Ireland, and I thank its representatives for appearing before us, but people need...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Employment and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (12 May 2022)

Eileen Flynn: I am sorry, but I want to be clear. Does the farmer get paid for having the person on the farm, yes or no?