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Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation (Resumed): Department of House, Local Government and Heritage (11 Jul 2024)

Eileen Flynn: In the past four years there have been some positive changes. It sounds like an awful lot of money to people listening in, but it is about how that money being spent. I know that in one specific halting site, there could be hundreds of thousands of euro. It could be about fixing a door. Poor maintenance is probably the correct term. I have seen the changes in the past four years. This...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation (Resumed): Department of House, Local Government and Heritage (11 Jul 2024)

Eileen Flynn: We have a short time left.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation (Resumed): Department of House, Local Government and Heritage (11 Jul 2024)

Eileen Flynn: I thank the Minister of State. We only have a few months left of this Government and I do not know if I will be lucky enough to get an opportunity to come back again. I may never have that opportunity. However, we must strive to have a good relationship and be able to bring about positive change in accommodation for Travellers. The Minister of State and the Department can genuinely bring...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation (Resumed): Department of House, Local Government and Heritage (11 Jul 2024)

Eileen Flynn: I welcome Senator O'Hara to his first meeting of the Traveller committee. He is very welcome. I know his passion for equality and human rights. He is placed on a great committee for that and I look forward to working with him. Apologies have been received from Deputy Stanton. I ask that we agree the minutes from our meetings on 16 May and 13 June 2024 as these minutes have already been...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation (Resumed): Department of House, Local Government and Heritage (11 Jul 2024)

Eileen Flynn: I thank the Minister of State. We will open to the floor to allow committee members ask questions of the Minister of State. Our Leas-Chathaoirleach, Deputy Ó Cuív, is passionate about Traveller accommodation. He will start by asking a few questions.

Seanad: Digital Services Levy Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (10 Jul 2024)

Eileen Flynn: I move amendment No. 1: In page 6, line 39, after “imposed” to insert the following: “or allocated to such a fund relevant to the functions of the Commission, as the Commission and the Minister may deem appropriate”. Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Jul 2024)

Eileen Flynn: I understand that we are coming to the end of this term. However, I, along with its other members, would love the opportunity to discuss in this House the pre-budget submission that the Joint Committee on Disability Matters has worked on. We talk about the rights of people with disabilities, which needs to be represented in the media but which gets very little representation either in the...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Omudsman for Children Annual Report 2023: Ombudsman for Children (2 Jul 2024)

Eileen Flynn: I am covering for Senator Lynn Ruane today who kindly allowed me to take her place today. I welcome the ombudsman and his colleagues to the committee this afternoon. This report was such an eye-opener for me. When I heard it discussed on a radio programme, I got shivers down my spine. As legislators and Members of the Houses of the Oireachtas, we must do better. It brought to mind for me...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Omudsman for Children Annual Report 2023: Ombudsman for Children (2 Jul 2024)

Eileen Flynn: The Minister for children's remit is about five different remits as well as children. There should be one allocated person as Minister for children who deals with oversight of budgets for health, education and accommodation. As we talk about children, there are children in hotel rooms across the island who are hungry and without a place to stay. That includes children from the Traveller...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Omudsman for Children Annual Report 2023: Ombudsman for Children (2 Jul 2024)

Eileen Flynn: In 2022 I introduced an amendment in the Seanad on changing "child pornography" to "child sexual abuse by materials". It has passed in the Seanad. If we look at the simple wins and the simple acts, they could be done in a matter of a few days. We talk about online safety, yet the answers are there. For my own information going forward, in regard to changing the name, I hope I will be able...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Omudsman for Children Annual Report 2023: Ombudsman for Children (2 Jul 2024)

Eileen Flynn: Child abuse by materials.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Omudsman for Children Annual Report 2023: Ombudsman for Children (2 Jul 2024)

Eileen Flynn: I thank Dr. Muldoon. Ms Ward's comments about shame and the shame of living in poverty really struck me. That is a burden in itself. That is such a weight on any child's shoulders. Back in 1998, when I fell on a halting site, I spent years going in and out of hospital with infections because of that one fall. That brings me back to that young person who was ashamed of going to school....

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Childcare Services (2 Jul 2024)

Eileen Flynn: Senator Sherlock will get the chance to come back in. I call the Minister of State.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Housing Provision (2 Jul 2024)

Eileen Flynn: The Minister of State, Deputy Noonan, is welcome to the House.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Housing Policy (2 Jul 2024)

Eileen Flynn: The Minister of State, Deputy Collins, is very welcome.

Seanad: Domestic Violence (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Second Stage (26 Jun 2024)

Eileen Flynn: I was not going to speak on this issue this evening but as my colleagues would be aware, as a child, I spent many a time with my mother in women's refuges in Ireland, through barring orders and so on. I can give one example. I remember my mother calling the Garda and gardaí saying that this is how Travellers are and this is a family matter. I am talking about 1996 or 1997....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: An Inclusive Education for an Inclusive Society: Department of Education (25 Jun 2024)

Eileen Flynn: For some children in Donegal, it takes 50 minutes to get to school by taxi and 50 minutes to get back. This is down to a lack of special needs schools in rural Ireland. To confirm, are we discussing the programme that used to be called “July provision”?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: An Inclusive Education for an Inclusive Society: Department of Education (25 Jun 2024)

Eileen Flynn: That is great.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: An Inclusive Education for an Inclusive Society: Department of Education (25 Jun 2024)

Eileen Flynn: The Minister of State mentioned that 1,700 schools had arranged summer programmes for this year. Is that the overall figure or does it only relate to mainstream schools with special classes? Does the Department monitor the uptake of school-based summer programmes? Nearly every Thursday when I drive home, I listen to the radio. Approximately three weeks ago, a mother spoke on radio about...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Jun 2024)

Eileen Flynn: I wish to talk about the cervical scandal that stills exists in Ireland. If a woman is going for a cervical check, her swab gets sent to America or Germany. Can women in this country trust the cervical tests? As someone who has been there and done all of that over the last year and a half, I can say we cannot trust them. It takes six weeks for the test result to come back. We should...