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Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (24 Sep 2024)

Eileen Flynn: I move amendment No. 62: In page 67, between lines 33 and 34, to insert the following: "(vi) the promotion of accessible and inclusive urban design supporting the implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Disabled Persons;".

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (24 Sep 2024)

Eileen Flynn: It is regrettable that I cannot call a vote on amendment No. 64, which relates to Traveller accommodation.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (24 Sep 2024)

Eileen Flynn: Will the Bill be debated tomorrow?

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jul 2024)

Eileen Flynn: The CEG has put in numerous amendments around social justice for people with disabilities and for members of the Traveller community. Yesterday we were told that the planning Bill had nothing to do with gender equality. We disagree with that. We are not future-proofing through this legislation. I said it four times yesterday. It is one of the largest pieces of legislation to ever come...

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jul 2024)

Eileen Flynn: We have less than half an hour to discuss this very important piece of legislation. While I admire Senator Fitzpatrick, I have yet to see the Senator in any of her videos speaking about Traveller accommodation or disabled people's accommodation. That is a point I want to make here because I think it is unfair that when people like me stand up with passion, through the lens of human rights...

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jul 2024)

Eileen Flynn: The Senator should not give it out if she cannot take it.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)

Eileen Flynn: Amendments Nos. 138 and 139 seek to address the need for local councillors to access independent political and technical advice. When we vote for our local councillors, we vote for a person who will represent our communities. We must make sure they have all the supports they need to make these decisions in our best interests. These amendments would empower local councillors by giving them...

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)

Eileen Flynn: I am sorry if the Minister of State heard the word "discrimination". I am sure I did not say it was discriminatory that the Minister of State is not accepting amendment No. 121. I did not say anything about discrimination because I would not-----

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)

Eileen Flynn: I find this very disheartening as the only member of the Traveller community who comes in here and speaks very openly about culture and way of life, working on amendments with my colleagues. I am talking about infrastructure, spaces where Travellers can celebrate our way of life, be that during Traveller Pride Week or at equine centres for Traveller men to be able to create jobs. It would...

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)

Eileen Flynn: I will speak briefly on amendment No. 121, which seeks to insert protection for cultural infrastructure and facilities. These are the spaces where living culture exists. As a member of the Traveller community, I have seen my culture regularly dismissed and even criminalised by wider society. Earlier I touched on the damaging impact of the report of the commission on itinerants in 1963,...

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)

Eileen Flynn: I move amendment No. 105: In page 72, between lines 29 and 30, to insert the following:“(o)integration of accessible urban design and the provision of accessible and inclusive facilities as required under the United Nations on the Convention on the Rights of Disabled Persons;”.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)

Eileen Flynn: I move amendment No. 99: In page 72, between lines 10 and 11, to insert the following: "(i) provision of suitable Traveller accommodation;". I withdraw it for re-submission on Report Stage.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)

Eileen Flynn: I know, but it is important we are all clear on this. We all have our own way of working.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)

Eileen Flynn: I do not.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)

Eileen Flynn: It is very important that I respond. Of course, I knew the Senator was not referring to me, but I believe, even with respect to her colleagues beside her, that it is a wee bit patronising to tell people how to do their job. That is my point. I am sure people know how to do their job. The Senator knows how to do hers.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)

Eileen Flynn: That is okay. The Senator went off track earlier, too.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)

Eileen Flynn: It is personal to me. This is the second time today the Chair has told me to stop being personal.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)

Eileen Flynn: I take this extremely personally. We have to live in these conditions and the Senator does not know what it is like to live in dire conditions. Nobody gives a damn about members of the Traveller community. I am here as a member of the Traveller community and I have to stand up. My colleagues and I will keep standing up and doing the right thing. It is personal.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)

Eileen Flynn: I will just keep saying it is personal, because it is. To me, it is very personal.

Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2024)

Eileen Flynn: I will note a few things. When I spoke to the Minister of State outside the Chamber, I rightly said to him that the Minister of State, Deputy Kieran O'Donnell, who previously had responsibility for Traveller accommodation, was absolutely brilliant. We did not have to do things, as Senator O'Reilly said, through committees and all that jazz. We did things in private. We got things done for...