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Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Education: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Nov 2019)

Colette Kelleher: I now know the age of the Deputy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Education: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Nov 2019)

Colette Kelleher: The Deputy has asked specific questions on the visiting teacher scheme. She emphasised that structural changes must be put in place that are similar to those that were put in place to assist people from working class backgrounds to access education. Gaps in such access still exist.

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Education: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Nov 2019)

Colette Kelleher: However, we know the methods and means.

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Education: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Nov 2019)

Colette Kelleher: Mr. McDonagh might like to share an experience he had at Trinity Hall.

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Education: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Nov 2019)

Colette Kelleher: There is that exposure to casual racism-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Education: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Nov 2019)

Colette Kelleher: -----that can cause people not to put themselves into positions where it may occur.

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Education: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Nov 2019)

Colette Kelleher: The committee can ask the Department for the statistics on participation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Education: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Nov 2019)

Colette Kelleher: We could look at the levels of participation. People need to trust that when they send their little one to a crèche, it is a welcoming place that understands them. This has been a theme running from early years to primary to secondary level and Mr. McDonagh has given us examples of third level. We will ask for the statistics on uptake of early education because that has an impact on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Education: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Nov 2019)

Colette Kelleher: That is a common theme emerging that will not be in our report.

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Education: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Nov 2019)

Colette Kelleher: Are there any comments or reactions to the comments made by Deputy Ferris?

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Education: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Nov 2019)

Colette Kelleher: Mr. McDonagh made four recommendations. He referred to deliberate targeting, which was clear. Firm recommendations have come from all witnesses today that affirmative action needs to happen from the early years, right through to primary, second and third level and into employment. Initiatives that are working, like Yellow Flag, Tobar and Traveller pride events, need to be put on a firm...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Education: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Nov 2019)

Colette Kelleher: Are hate speech laws fundamental to addressing the institutional racism that seems to be at play in the educational system and the health system? Many people made presentations to the committee. There is, at best, inertia. There is indifference and then there is the institutionalised racism. I refer to the lack of progress and the lack of good initiatives, and the initiatives that have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Education: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Nov 2019)

Colette Kelleher: Such hate speech laws are critical to changing that kind of discourse and changing the atmosphere around what other progressive measures might be possible. I welcome Deputy Ó Cuív. Does the Deputy have any questions or comments for the panel? He probably had horrendous journey from Galway.

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Education: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Nov 2019)

Colette Kelleher: Deputy Jan O'Sullivan gave us plenty of food for thought. It is good that we have in the Deputy an ally on the Joint Committee on Education and Skills. We are making common cause on specific matters such as the reduced-hours timetable. It is also helpful to have her insights, as a former Minister, on how to move the system. I thank Dr. Teresa O'Doherty. While it is great to hear of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Working Group on Access to Contraception: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)

Colette Kelleher: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. To be blunt and honest, I am very disappointed. I made a contribution to the consultation during the summer and I am very disappointed with the report. It has moved away from the principle of women getting access to contraception. The debate is becoming more about cost, what we can afford and what we can tinker with and creating false...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Working Group on Access to Contraception: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)

Colette Kelleher: That is a "Yes", then.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Working Group on Access to Contraception: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)

Colette Kelleher: Does Mr. Conlon accept that contraception is a public as well as a private matter, that it is a matter of public policy and that it has a rightful call on the public purse? That is another yes-no question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Working Group on Access to Contraception: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)

Colette Kelleher: It is not strange. I ask Mr. Conlon to bear with my line of questioning. Does he accept what the working group has been told in the consultation by the Start doctors, the Irish College of General Practitioners, the Irish Family Planning Association and others, that is, that in Ireland today there are very real barriers to women accessing the best and most effective contraceptives during...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Working Group on Access to Contraception: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)

Colette Kelleher: Does Mr. Conlon have any view about the unfairness of singling out contraceptives, which he agreed at the beginning were fundamental to women exercising their health and reproductive rights and preventing unwanted pregnancies? Does he think it is unfair that contraceptives should have to be bought or means-tested? For example, when a number of years ago I went to get my Mirena coil...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Working Group on Access to Contraception: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)

Colette Kelleher: That figure seems to be moving, even today, so I do not know if we can base anything concrete on those estimates because there is a big difference between €80 million and €100 million. There was also a figure of €70 million. That does not seem to be a firm figure on which we can hang our hats. As I said, this still takes us to the economic conversation. Any public...