Results 741-760 of 1,013 for speaker:Colette Kelleher
- Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Health: Discussion (22 Oct 2019)
Colette Kelleher: The question calls for urgent radical action to remove all barriers and incentivise getting health to people where it is most needed, in the form of mobile health units, and for a Traveller-led task force.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Health: Discussion (22 Oct 2019)
Colette Kelleher: I think Ms Quirke is calling for leadership.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Health: Discussion (22 Oct 2019)
Colette Kelleher: A sum of €10 million might sound like a lot, but if it is not enough-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Health: Discussion (22 Oct 2019)
Colette Kelleher: -----it is not enough.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Health: Discussion (22 Oct 2019)
Colette Kelleher: Senator Coffey hit on the barriers, the silo and making a priority start on key areas for additional funding. What is there is clearly nowhere near enough to even make a start.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Health: Discussion (22 Oct 2019)
Colette Kelleher: Our committee is there to help with that leadership. I am anxious to hear from the three members who wish to ask questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Health: Discussion (22 Oct 2019)
Colette Kelleher: I am anxious to hear from the other two.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Health: Discussion (22 Oct 2019)
Colette Kelleher: Who would like to respond to those points?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Health: Discussion (22 Oct 2019)
Colette Kelleher: I will call Ms Maria Joyce, Ms Brigid Quirke and Mr. Walsh before we take more questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Health: Discussion (22 Oct 2019)
Colette Kelleher: I think the Deputy has made his point very well and clearly and it is an important one.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Health: Discussion (22 Oct 2019)
Colette Kelleher: I wish to bring in Ms Quirke. I am anxious to bring in two other members who have not asked questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Health: Discussion (22 Oct 2019)
Colette Kelleher: That was nine years ago.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Health: Discussion (22 Oct 2019)
Colette Kelleher: This is a good moment to bring in Mr. Walsh to respond to the points.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Health: Discussion (22 Oct 2019)
Colette Kelleher: The HSE will come to the next module, so that would be a good question to put to it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Health: Discussion (22 Oct 2019)
Colette Kelleher: To be fair, given that the crisis in health is so great and so fundamental, talking about things such as the Healthy Ireland type initiatives is like talking to people with cancer about getting fit. It is useful but it is not really where we are at. I do not think we should be talking about health in that way.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Health: Discussion (22 Oct 2019)
Colette Kelleher: That is a good way of doing an ethnic identifier.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Health: Discussion (22 Oct 2019)
Colette Kelleher: The important thing is the human rights protection framework for the use of ethnic identifiers, and it is important in making sure there is a proper recognition of the numbers of people who have identified as Travellers because there can be an underestimation. Mr. Jim Walsh will speak next and then Deputy Collins, who is very patient.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Health: Discussion (22 Oct 2019)
Colette Kelleher: Many of us around the table have a big interest in that, but particularly Senator Ruane.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Health: Discussion (22 Oct 2019)
Colette Kelleher: That was with regard to the coroner and deaths rather than the ethnic identifiers.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Health: Discussion (22 Oct 2019)
Colette Kelleher: That is something the representatives would like the committee to recommend.