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Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Travellers in Prison: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)

Eileen Flynn: Thank you, Deputy. To be clear, before the Deputy leaves, for the agreement of members of the committee, we will write to the Department of Justice about funding the three extra staff members for Barnardos. We will also write to encourage the Department to financially support the Traveller Mediation Service. We will also write to the Department of children. Is that agreed? Agreed. I...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Travellers in Prison: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)

Eileen Flynn: It is important we look at getting Tusla before the committee about the work it does specifically with Travellers in prison. What Ms Costello spoke about is extremely real. Ms Sweeney rightly said that having a relationship with your children is important. Many Traveller women prefer their child to be with the grandmother, sister or uncle and cut off that relationship because of the fear...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Travellers in Prison: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)

Eileen Flynn: Judges have to leave their children to go work and have to that explain to their children. Once a week, I explain to my children that mammy has to go to work in order that they do not feel abandoned. That is very real. To have that experience must have been absolutely traumatic for Ms Sweeney but, most importantly, for her children too. That should not be allowed to happen.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Travellers in Prison: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)

Eileen Flynn: I thank the Senator.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Travellers in Prison: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)

Eileen Flynn: Thank you, Deputy. Ms Brady, would you like to come in?

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Travellers in Prison: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)

Eileen Flynn: The absolute last resort is to put a pregnant woman in prison. Thank you, Deputy Buckley. Over the summer, the Vice Chairperson, Deputy Ó Cuív, announced that he will not be running in the next election. As Travellers, we are very grateful for the work Deputy Ó Cuív has done for years, especially for Travellers in prison and people in prison in general. I do not...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Travellers in Prison: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)

Eileen Flynn: Deputy Ó Cuív met a man in Castlerea who said he has been a long time on remand.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Travellers in Prison: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)

Eileen Flynn: Are Travellers kept longer on remand than people from the general population?

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Travellers in Prison: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)

Eileen Flynn: This shows the level of funding needed from the Department of Justice.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Travellers in Prison: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)

Eileen Flynn: I have some questions that perhaps cannot be answered today because we are due to finish at 12.30 p.m. For us as a committee, it is not just about visiting halting sites and not taking any action. It is not just about going into the prisons and seeing the men and women and leaving it there. It has really opened up my eyes. In Castlerea Prison, Ms Costello said that we are not looking for...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Travellers in Prison: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)

Eileen Flynn: I thank Ms Sweeney and everyone else so much. We will go back to being a little bit formal again. Would any members of the committee like to raise any other matters? No. We will meet again next Thursday, 3 October 2024, at 10.30 a.m., when we will have representatives with us from the Irish Travellers' Access to Justice Project, so the work continues. On 10 October 2024, then, at 10...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Legislative Measures (9 Oct 2024)

Eileen Flynn: I thank the Minister of State for taking the time to deal with this Commencement matter this morning. I was very disappointed to learn the Minister for Justice, Deputy McEntee, has decided to drop the incitement, or hate speech, sections of the Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022. We can all agree that our legislation is not fit for purpose and we...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Legislative Measures (9 Oct 2024)

Eileen Flynn: The Minister sat in that seat back when we discussed the Bill in 2023. Her words were, "You can still be offensive". Along with the amendments in the Bill as it stands now, without the Minister scrapping the incitement of hate speech, it was still okay to be offensive. People could still be racist or offensive but targeting and calling somebody names, running after them on the street or...

Seanad: Offshore Renewable Energy: Motion (9 Oct 2024)

Eileen Flynn: The Senator has had an opportunity to speak.

Seanad: Final Report of the Joint Committee on Autism: Motion [Private Members] (9 Oct 2024)

Eileen Flynn: This evening session will address the Final Report of the Joint Committee on Autism. I ask Senator Carrigy to move the motion.

Seanad: Final Report of the Joint Committee on Autism: Motion [Private Members] (9 Oct 2024)

Eileen Flynn: I thank the Senator. The debate will follow the normal pattern where the Senator will have 12 minutes to speak on the report.

Seanad: Final Report of the Joint Committee on Autism: Motion [Private Members] (9 Oct 2024)

Eileen Flynn: The Senator does not have to share his time so he has 12 minutes speaking time.

Seanad: Final Report of the Joint Committee on Autism: Motion [Private Members] (9 Oct 2024)

Eileen Flynn: Before we move on to the next speaker, I thank Senator Carrigy for his dedication, all his hard work on the autism committee and his commitment to bringing about change. Most importantly, I thank him for being determined and committed to put autistic children and adults on the agenda in Leinster House. I thank him for that and for being a very fair and honest Chair. I welcome our guests...

Seanad: Final Report of the Joint Committee on Autism: Motion [Private Members] (9 Oct 2024)

Eileen Flynn: I am sorry, Senator, we have to give everybody the opportunity to speak.

Seanad: Final Report of the Joint Committee on Autism: Motion [Private Members] (9 Oct 2024)

Eileen Flynn: I would be the first to admit that this is a very important issue, but we must be fair to everybody. I call Senator Clonan who is sharing time with Senator Boyhan.