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Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Health: Discussion (22 Oct 2019)

Colette Kelleher: It goes beyond involvement. People are talking about more than that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Health: Discussion (22 Oct 2019)

Colette Kelleher: We could also say control and direction.

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Health: Discussion (22 Oct 2019)

Colette Kelleher: Ms Joyce has made her clarification.

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Health: Discussion (22 Oct 2019)

Colette Kelleher: That is why we will be returning to this topic on 5 November. We will have the HSE in and will be asking some hard questions of it. I will ask the committee members if we can invite a Traveller health co-ordinator, Ms Deirdre O'Reilly, whose submission arrived late, to participate. I presume that is okay. It is impossible to sum up this issue. It is about people's lives, including...

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage (23 Oct 2019)

Colette Kelleher: I welcome the Minister of State and commend Senator Devine for introducing this Private Members' Bill. I compliment Deputy Pat Buckley and his Sinn Féin colleagues on this progressive legislation, which should, and I expect will, attract cross-party support. As a psychiatric nurse by profession and having served with Senator Freeman when she chaired the Joint Committee on Future of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing (Regulation of Approved Housing Bodies) Bill 2019: Discussion (24 Oct 2019)

Colette Kelleher: My questions are about the standard setting function that is proposed and some other issues. I was on the board of the Irish Council for Social Housing, ICSH, for many years, and a very large number of its membership and approved housing bodies are very small-scale housing providers. They are local providers of social housing responding very flexibly to local need, for example, to older...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing (Regulation of Approved Housing Bodies) Bill 2019: Discussion (24 Oct 2019)

Colette Kelleher: So there will be no registration fees.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing (Regulation of Approved Housing Bodies) Bill 2019: Discussion (24 Oct 2019)

Colette Kelleher: Could we be reassured that they will stay within the approved housing bodies rather than transferred out to say, for example, a private provider?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing (Regulation of Approved Housing Bodies) Bill 2019: Discussion (24 Oct 2019)

Colette Kelleher: Okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing (Regulation of Approved Housing Bodies) Bill 2019: Discussion (24 Oct 2019)

Colette Kelleher: I have a very brief question. It was prompted by a question posed by Deputy Ó Broin. It concerns the allocations policy and the rule of the regulator in overseeing it. Obviously, we want flexibility, particularly for the small housing providers, but we also want strong, clear and transparent governance rules. As Senator Boyhan outlined, considerable public funds are allocated to AHBs...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing (Regulation of Approved Housing Bodies) Bill 2019: Discussion (24 Oct 2019)

Colette Kelleher: Is that something the regulator would examine?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing (Regulation of Approved Housing Bodies) Bill 2019: Discussion (24 Oct 2019)

Colette Kelleher: Would it check that they were being adhered to?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing (Regulation of Approved Housing Bodies) Bill 2019: Discussion (24 Oct 2019)

Colette Kelleher: What about misallocation? For example, what if it transpired that people who were known to the committee members were getting houses? How would a regulator be satisfied that the allocations were in line with the expectations of the local authority funding the AHB and its policy on allocations to meet social housing need? What information would a regulator need to be assured that everything...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing (Regulation of Approved Housing Bodies) Bill 2019: Discussion (24 Oct 2019)

Colette Kelleher: I will finish on this. If there were local concerns around nominations and allocations, recourse would be to the local authority rather than to the regulator. The regulator would not have a role in that regard. Is that right?

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Nov 2019)

Colette Kelleher: I was not going to speak but we need an honest debate in this House about asylum, refugees and economic migrants. That debate has to be framed by the notion and the belief that diversity is a positive thing and not de facto a negative thing. We should have our conversations and discussions in that light. I was an economic migrant for 17 years. I never felt like and never was a burden on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Business of Joint Committee (5 Nov 2019)

Colette Kelleher: The quorum for this joint committee is four because that is the combined quorum of two select committees, minus one, provided at least one of the members present is a Member of Dáil Éireann and at least one of the members present is a Member of Seanad Éireann. As we have a quorum, I call the meeting to order. Apologies have been received from Senator Paudie Coffey. I propose...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Health: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Nov 2019)

Colette Kelleher: I welcome all members of the joint committee and those who are watching. I understand these committee hearings are attracting considerable interest on Oireachtas News, which is good because not everybody can come here. I welcome our visitors to this meeting of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community. The purpose of the meeting is to continue our...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Health: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Nov 2019)

Colette Kelleher: I thank Ms O'Donoghue. This is her second time meeting the committee as she provided us with Traveller cultural awareness training before we began our deliberations. Those of us who were present found it illuminating and it has assisted us in our passage. There is more to learn and more to go. I also thank Ms McGrath for coming before the committee today. There will be questions...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Health: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Nov 2019)

Colette Kelleher: I thank Ms McArdle. I call on Dr. Favier, president of the Irish College of General Practitioners, ICGP, to make her opening statement.

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Health: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Nov 2019)

Colette Kelleher: I thank Dr. Favier for her opening statement. It is encouraging to hear from her statement that the health differences between Travellers and the general population are avoidable if we take the right steps. I call Senator Lynn Ruane, who will be followed by Deputies Corcoran-Kennedy and Joan Collins.