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Seanad: Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (27 Oct 2022)

Eileen Flynn: I just want to make sure to make it again, please. To believe that we are not being discriminatory is being part of the problem. For me, I am not, as I have tried my best to get these amendments put in. I say to the Minister of State that I am in support of the Bill, 150%, but I am not in support of the three amendments which we submitted on behalf of the Irish Traveller movement and its...

Seanad: Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (27 Oct 2022)

Eileen Flynn: This is a little bit personalised.

Seanad: Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (27 Oct 2022)

Eileen Flynn: I did not make my point.

Seanad: Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (27 Oct 2022)

Eileen Flynn: As I was saying to the Minister of State, I support the Bill and I did not wish to cause offence to anybody but I live and breathe in this community and not to accept those amendments is very disheartening. I do take it personally. Sometimes one has to take it personally when you are the one that is living in it and working with the people on the ground. For many of the Members, for the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)

Eileen Flynn: Last week we had the HSE and the Department before the committee and it was a daunting session. There was a sense of people giving pats on the back. I mean no disrespect about all the great work that is being done but then listening to parents and the experience on the ground it is different. I would encourage the Department to look over what people have said in the committee today. Last...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)

Eileen Flynn: There are similar cases in Donegal where children have to travel the whole way around the county to get to school, and they can be travelling for up to two hours with all the stopping and so on. That is an issue we will have to look at. I thank our guests for their responses. I appreciate they are under great pressure.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Mental Health Supports in Schools and Tertiary Education: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)

Eileen Flynn: Sharing the Vision is just this nightmare in my head at the minute. Anyway, moving on. It is always important for people who have experience, even as a politician or whatever, to draw on that experience and say that they know what they are speaking about. When I was just 11, I was in a very bad accident. I lost my mother a few days before that accident. There were no supports around...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Enforcement of Court Orders relating to Child Maintenance, Access and Custody: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)

Eileen Flynn: Not at the moment, thank you.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Enforcement of Court Orders relating to Child Maintenance, Access and Custody: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)

Eileen Flynn: When talking about children's access to parents, the delegates put the child at the heart of the conversation, and rightly so, but my question is about married people from mixed communities. I have been speaking to a woman whose partner has reported her three times to Tusla. She is from the Traveller community. She feels absolutely powerless because her husband is a member of the settled...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Enforcement of Court Orders relating to Child Maintenance, Access and Custody: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)

Eileen Flynn: To be clear, I am aware of some of the recommendations to date but I was seeking an opportunity to raise the matter.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Enforcement of Court Orders relating to Child Maintenance, Access and Custody: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)

Eileen Flynn: We need more judges who understand poor people and those from ethnic minority groups, and some of the real issues on the ground for ordinary people. That is not to mean any disrespect but it would be a great starting point for judges to be educated on what is going on in communities and with children.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Nov 2022)

Eileen Flynn: Hear, hear.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Nov 2022)

Eileen Flynn: Ballyfermot Youth Service will hold a vigil at 4.30 p.m. today outside Ballyfermot Garda station in response to the incident that happened at the weekend. We send the solidarity of the House, but I send it also as a person who was born and reared in Ballyfermot.We have to understand that not every single person in that community is a bad person. That is my message today. While we stand in...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Animal Diseases (23 Nov 2022)

Eileen Flynn: Before you come back in, Senator Lombard, I wish to welcome visitors from Our Lady of Mercy College, Booterstown. It is lovely to see young students able to come into the House again. They are all very welcome.

Seanad: Public Order and Safe Streets: Statements (23 Nov 2022)

Eileen Flynn: I thank the Cathaoirleach Gníomhach for letting me in. Over the past week, I have been listening to discussion about what has been going on in Ballyfermot. It is not just for the past week. I was born and reared on a halting site in Ballyfermot and I live and breathe in the community.For the past four years, I have been living in Donegal. We tend to blame and label young people from...

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Report Stage (29 Nov 2022)

Eileen Flynn: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Report Stage (29 Nov 2022)

Eileen Flynn: It is appalling that there is discriminatory language in a Bill in 2022. Why is legislation that has discriminatory words in it being rushed through? We are not in agreement that the Bill is ideal. It is not listening to disabled people. Why is the Minister seeking to pass it through the House today?

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Report Stage (29 Nov 2022)

Eileen Flynn: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Report Stage (29 Nov 2022)

Eileen Flynn: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Report Stage (29 Nov 2022)

Eileen Flynn: I second the amendment.