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Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

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Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Eileen Flynn: I want to put that on record to make it clear. A lot of the time, we talk about threats. As I recalled, in one case it involved a child, unfortunately. They are not all critical threats. This is not me condoning it. It is not because people are from the Traveller community that these threats or incidents have happened. It is because of the people themselves. It has nothing to do with...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Eileen Flynn: As with any other community, it involves calling An Garda Síochána. That kind of behaviour is genuinely not acceptable. No matter who you are or where you are from, it is not acceptable to attack a worker. There is no real explanation for it. I appreciate Ms Doyle saying it is due to frustration. People do not have the right to assault a person who is trying to support them, no...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Eileen Flynn: Yes. It is really important we treat the Traveller community as we would any other community because violence is not part of Traveller culture. That is the same for domestic violence, antisocial behaviour, etc. They are not part of our culture and our way of life. Looking at media outlets today, I was kind of thinking "What the hell?", but it is always a minority within a minority group,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Student Mobility: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Eileen Flynn: I thank the Cathaoirleach. All of our witnesses are very welcome to the committee this afternoon. I would disagree with the comments of our witnesses that they do not see any obstacles for young people in Donegal. I live in Ardara in Donegal. In the last week, for example, and it may be somewhat off-topic, a young woman from Donegal was on placement in St. Catherine's vocational school in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Student Mobility: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Eileen Flynn: Just so I can clarify as well, over the past four years I have built up a great relationship with Donegal ETB and it is very visible. Again though, we need to put measures in place for young people to have the equality of opportunity to be successful in going on to apprenticeship courses. I wanted to be really clear on that. Donegal ETB is doing absolutely brilliantly for higher and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Student Mobility: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Eileen Flynn: What about college connects? Does anyone have a view on that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Student Mobility: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Eileen Flynn: Okay. I thank Ms Duffy.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Electoral Process (6 Mar 2024)

Eileen Flynn: I welcome students from St. Pius school, Terenure, to the Chamber this morning. We hope they enjoy their visit. It is always lovely to see young students in Leinster House getting a feel of the place. Hopefully, one day, one of them will be in here.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Hospital Closures (6 Mar 2024)

Eileen Flynn: I welcome the Minster of State, Deputy Butler, to the House. Senators Kyne and O'Reilly are going to share time. This will be interesting. I have never seen this done for a Commencement matter before.

Seanad: International Women's Day: Statements (6 Mar 2024)

Eileen Flynn: Hear, hear.

Seanad: International Women's Day: Statements (6 Mar 2024)

Eileen Flynn: I thank Senator Moynihan for sharing her time with me. I very much appreciate it. As a member of the Traveller community and probably one of the only women in both Houses from an ethnic minority, I am sick to the pit of my stomach of the do-gooders in the absence of the inclusion of Muslim women and Black women and of our voices being heard equally around the table. The Minister spoke...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Allocations of Special Education Teachers: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

Eileen Flynn: I thank the witnesses for again appearing before a committee. In the nearly four years I have been a Member of the Oireachtas, there has been very little action for people with disabilities. That is no disrespect to the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Disability Matters or this committee. We also had the autism committee. First and foremost, there are too many Ministers dealing with the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Allocations of Special Education Teachers: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

Eileen Flynn: I totally understand why people with special additional needs and organisations such as AsIAm have lost trust in the Department. It is due to action and the lack of action. I totally get it.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Eileen Flynn: I apologise. I am late due to another commitment this morning. I met Ms Heavey and her team from Community Law and Mediation and people from FLAC a few weeks ago to discuss issues that have an impact on the Traveller community around accommodation and from a justice perspective. This committee is dealing with accommodation, health, including mental health, education and employment at the...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Eileen Flynn: It is about education. Ms O'Sullivan is talking about the Equal Status Acts. There are 40,000 Travellers in Ireland. Activists are educated about the Equal Status Acts because we are in the sector and we know where to go. Many members of the Traveller community would not have the first knowledge about those Acts to enable them to decide to take a case. Many do not know about them. If,...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Eileen Flynn: For the record, the committee invited CLM and FLAC as part of the discussion on accommodation. That was my point. We need at least 20 CLM and FLAC offices to deal with the demand. You have to live in the community to understand the number of cases that Travellers would have to take given that these incidents happen daily as a result of the level of racism and discrimination. Hatred has...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Eileen Flynn: Training judges is a brilliant recommendation. In the past two years, the Minister, Deputy McEntee, has appointed more women judges. It is important to know that members of the Traveller community can go on and be judges too. It is also important to create that opportunity for members of our community. We could go from here until Christmas talking about experiences. For example, a...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Eileen Flynn: That is fine to a certain extent. We can do training for judges because that has not been done before. I am gone past the point of training teachers or training people to deal with other human beings. As Deputy Ó Cuív has said here numerous times, pilot programmes and training can be a pure waste of time. We are kicking the can down the road. We are not doing the implementation...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Eileen Flynn: I thank CLM and FLAC for coming in today. I think justice is a critical part of equality for Travellers. Whether it is top down, bottom up or however you might like to describe it, we have to deal with the over-representation of Travellers in our prison system and the level of homelessness in the Traveller community. Even last year, Travellers did not have access to the €300...