Results 341-360 of 1,384 for speaker:Eileen Flynn

Seanad: Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2022)

Eileen Flynn: I move amendment No. 33: In page 19, line 23, to delete “manifestly”.

Seanad: Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2022)

Eileen Flynn: I move amendment No. 35: In page 22, between lines 11 and 12, to insert the following: “(c) a member having expertise in transitional justice,”. I will withdraw the amendment as we wish to discuss it further on Report Stage.

Seanad: Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2022)

Eileen Flynn: I move amendment No. 36: In page 22, to delete lines 12 and 13 and substitute the following: “(c) a member having expertise in transitional justice,”.

Seanad: Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2022)

Eileen Flynn: I move amendment No. 37: In page 33, between lines 31 and 32, to insert the following: “(6) Nothing in this section shall prejudice the rights of those who wish to expose wrongdoing by making a protected disclosure under the Protected Disclosures Acts 2014 to 2022.”. Amendment No. 37 seeks to ensure that nothing in this Bill prevents someone from making a protected...

Seanad: Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2022)

Eileen Flynn: I withdraw the amendment and reserve the right to resubmit on Report Stage.

Seanad: Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2022)

Eileen Flynn: I move amendment No. 40: In page 35, line 31, to delete “or unnatural circumstances” and substitute “, unnatural, suspicious or undetermined circumstances”. I withdraw the amendment and reserve the right to resubmit on Report Stage.

Seanad: Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2022)

Eileen Flynn: I move amendment No. 41: In page 37, between lines 29 and 30, to insert the following: “Report on forensic examination and recovery and post-recovery analysis of human remains 40.Following the expiration of the period of operation of an Office of Director of Authorised Intervention, the Minister shall cause a report to be laid before both Houses of the Oireachtas on the carrying...

Seanad: Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2022)

Eileen Flynn: I move amendment No. 42: In page 39, between lines 24 and 25, to insert the following: “(2) The public information campaign described under subsection (1) shall be targeted at persons within and outside the State, and shall be in plain English.”. It is important that an information campaign is extended beyond this State because many Irish people emigrated to America and...

Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Second Stage (28 Jun 2022)

Eileen Flynn: As always, both in the education committee and in this House, I am privileged to be before such a passionate Minister when it comes to higher education, and I mean that. I welcome all attempts to modernise the higher education sector and I hope we will be able to do that in this Bill. However, Senators Ruane and Higgins and I will be proposing a number of amendments to the Bill to address...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Jun 2022)

Eileen Flynn: In all my time as an activist and working with poor women, I never heard them speak about period poverty. A lot of the time we can use poor women to kick cans down the road, so I encourage the Minister of State, Senator Hackett, to focus on issues such as housing and childcare as well, and perhaps speak to the poor women who are living in poverty. That could be a very good starting point....

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Jun 2022)

Eileen Flynn: It should not be happening.

Seanad: Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (29 Jun 2022)

Eileen Flynn: I will not repeat much of what has already been stated. There is a lot in the Acts in question but I will focus on the Special Criminal Court. There is much talk, nationally and internationally, about how we need to protect European values and democracy. If we are serious about protecting and defending democracy, we must scrap the Special Criminal Court. The cornerstone of any democracy...

Seanad: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (30 Jun 2022)

Eileen Flynn: Two years ago I stood in front of the Minister of State in the Dáil Chamber and spoke about diversity and inclusion in our Parliament. Senator Ruane has spoken about amendment No. 5, which is tabled because the Bill does not address Seanad elections. As part of the Civil Engagement Group and as ordinary citizens, we believe the Seanad should be reformed to meet the needs of the people....

Seanad: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (30 Jun 2022)

Eileen Flynn: I welcome the Minister of State’s commitment to including diversity and equality. How can we have another commission without inclusion? I do not mean this in any disrespectful way, but as the only person from an ethnic minority group in the Seanad and speak about the importance of including people from ethnic minority groups, not just the Traveller community but young people and...

Seanad: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (30 Jun 2022)

Eileen Flynn: I thank Senator Warfield for bringing this very important issue to the Seanad. I also thank my colleague, Senator Ruane, who has done a lot of work on votes for 16-year olds for many years. Last Thursday, my colleague, Deputy Pringle, brought a Bill to the Dáil on lowering the voting age to 16. I watched the debate very closely. The response of the Minister of State was that we would...

Seanad: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (30 Jun 2022)

Eileen Flynn: I thank Senator Warfield for bringing this very important issue to the Seanad. I also thank my colleague, Senator Ruane, who has done a lot of work on votes for 16-year-olds for many years. Last Thursday, my colleague, Deputy Pringle, brought a Bill to the Dáil on lowering the voting age to 16. I watched the debate very closely. The response of the Minister of State was that we would...

Seanad: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Committee Stage (30 Jun 2022)

Eileen Flynn: Hear, hear.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy and Education: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Eileen Flynn: I thank the witnesses for attending. Last week, I tabled a Commencement matter on special schools that was answered by the Minster of State at the Department of Education, Deputy Josepha Madigan. Today, I have heard Mr. Kearney speak about special schools in the cities of Cork and Dublin. What does he mean by the term "special school"? I will ask him what I asked the Minister of State...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy and Education: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)

Eileen Flynn: Yes.