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Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2019)

Colette Kelleher: The point that the Senator is making is that we know that but we are also querying the competence of anybody to whom a member of the Traveller community might be referred, where they might be met by a therapist from the health services or outside of them who is capable of treating that person as an equal, and does not hold prejudice or discriminate, in a hidden manner or not. I am encouraged...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2019)

Colette Kelleher: Given the scale of the crisis, we need to be doing better than hoping that the person one might be referred to has cultural sensitivity.

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2019)

Colette Kelleher: Can the HSE also comment on whether it has enough resources to do what it needs to do? Are there any other questions, queries or comments?

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2019)

Colette Kelleher: They are broad points.

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2019)

Colette Kelleher: We have to stick with the focus we have here on this committee, which is, specifically, the crisis in Traveller mental health and the responses to it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2019)

Colette Kelleher: I thank the witnesses. We will look at health in the next two meetings, we will have four meetings about education, then we will look at employment. We will come back to accommodation, since having a safe, decent place to call home seems to be a fundamental part of being able to be well. Do any witnesses have any final points?

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2019)

Colette Kelleher: That is encouraging and a good note to finish on. It is heartening to hear that the Minister of State, the Department and the HSE, which is the main delivery agency for health and mental health, all recognise the crisis and prioritise it. That will be judged by the actions that we take. As we wait for coroners, ethnic identifiers and such, people are dying, lives are being lost and...

Seanad: Traveller Culture and History in Education Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (16 Oct 2019)

Colette Kelleher: I had prepared to speak amendment by amendment, but I will take them all together. I will, therefore, be speaking for a while. I thank the Minister for coming to the House and for his engagement, and for the engagement by the previous Minister, Deputy Richard Bruton, on the Traveller Culture and History in Education Bill 2018. At a briefing earlier we heard that it is of similar...

Seanad: Traveller Culture and History in Education Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (16 Oct 2019)

Colette Kelleher: I do, but I will keep it brief. I am disappointed. I would have liked for us to be closer today, but I feel we have the basis for further conversation. We can do more work when this Bill goes to the Dáil. I thank Oein de Bhairdúin who guided me through this Bill and so much more. I also thank the members of the Traveller advisory group, which informed the audit, the Irish...

Seanad: Children's Digital Protection Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2019)

Colette Kelleher: I speak on behalf of my colleague, Senator Higgins.She, along with Senator Ruane and I, welcomes the spirit and intent of the Bill. It is important that we are moving further towards legislating for technology and online content. As we know and the Minister and Senator Craughwell recognised, we cannot rely on self-regulation by tech companies. It simply does not give sufficient protection...

Seanad: Children's Digital Protection Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2019)

Colette Kelleher: I echo the comments made by Senator Noone. Harsh words are not acceptable in any setting, whether delivered to one's face, online or in any other way. We are coarsening our discourse and making life far more difficult for people. I again commend Senators Freeman and Craughwell on bringing forward the legislation. I have a small concern on the implementation of the Bill and how it will fit...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Development Agency Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Oct 2019)

Colette Kelleher: These exchanges have been very illuminating and confirmed many key issues about which committee members have been concerned and with which they have been grappling. Mr. O'Mahony has stated we must not let the LDA lose the run of itself and that the Bill needs to constrain it. However, we also must make sure we do not lose the run of ourselves. In the complexity surrounding the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Development Agency Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Oct 2019)

Colette Kelleher: In emergency accommodation. More people are homeless actually.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Development Agency Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Oct 2019)

Colette Kelleher: Does Mr. O'Mahony think that should come back into the frame?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Development Agency Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Oct 2019)

Colette Kelleher: Should a greater emphasis on the common good be included in the framing legislation for the LDA?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Development Agency Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Oct 2019)

Colette Kelleher: It is a matter of building in the technology.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Development Agency Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Oct 2019)

Colette Kelleher: They have no security of tenure.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Development Agency Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Oct 2019)

Colette Kelleher: I thank Mr. Benson very much.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Development Agency Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Oct 2019)

Colette Kelleher: I thank Mr. O'Neill very much.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Oct 2019)

Colette Kelleher: First, I second Senator Higgins's proposed amendment to the Order of Business. Second, I congratulate Senator Bacik on her rightful recognition. I wish to discuss child homelessness. According to official figures, there are now 3,848 children living in homelessness. We saw a photograph of one of them, Sam, eating from a carton on Grafton Street. Figures are one thing, but when one puts a...