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- Seanad: Crime: Statements (5 Dec 2019)
Martin Conway: I do not think there is any malice in the Senator's utterance.
- Seanad: Crime: Statements (5 Dec 2019)
Martin Conway: The issue of crime is challenging and difficult and unfortunately, there are many victims of crime every day. I note, however, the Government has introduced and passed legislation to enhance the rights of victims of crime. Drug culture is a serious problem and not just in urban Ireland or in Dublin. Unfortunately, drugs are now freely available in every town and village. The people who...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Report of the Expert Group on Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (5 Dec 2019)
Martin Conway: The Minister of State is welcome. I do not have any doubt about his personal determination with this issue but Traveller accommodation is probably the poorest relation when it comes to accommodation in general. I know there is a regular debate on the issue of asylum seekers and direct provision centres and while there are many challenges there, the single biggest challenge this country has...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Report of the Expert Group on Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (5 Dec 2019)
Martin Conway: I have two more questions. I understand the Minister of State's frustration. He is just one person. I know that he can drive change when he wants to do so. I accept that he wants to do so on this occasion. I appeal to public representatives not to object to social housing. There is a structure in place at local authority level. If that structure does not work or people are not...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Report of the Expert Group on Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (5 Dec 2019)
Martin Conway: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Report of the Expert Group on Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (5 Dec 2019)
Martin Conway: Has the Minister of State set up-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Report of the Expert Group on Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (5 Dec 2019)
Martin Conway: I thank the Minister of State.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Report of the Expert Group on Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (5 Dec 2019)
Martin Conway: On a point of clarification, where does the issue with the GDPR arise? Has this been raised by the Traveller advocacy groups?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Report of the Expert Group on Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (5 Dec 2019)
Martin Conway: It is an abuse of the GDPR legislation for local authorities to behave like that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Report of the Expert Group on Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (5 Dec 2019)
Martin Conway: One will find that the Data Protection Commissioner is quite reasonable.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Report of the Expert Group on Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (5 Dec 2019)
Martin Conway: I have listened to Senator Murnane O'Connor. Some local authorities had a Traveller accommodation unit and the staff were specifically dedicated to dealing with Traveller accommodation difficulties. Some of those local authorities have stood down the Traveller accommodation unit and integrated it into the housing directorate because they believed that social workers should provide support...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Report of the Expert Group on Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (5 Dec 2019)
Martin Conway: Sometimes that is needed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Report of the Expert Group on Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (5 Dec 2019)
Martin Conway: Each local authority, particularly those with the low spends, needs to set up a Traveller accommodation unit specifically responsible for driving Traveller accommodation within the housing directorate. I was talking to Deputy Ó Broin earlier on. In Clare, €13,000 was all that was spent out of an allocation of something like €850,000 in 2018. It is clear that the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Report of the Expert Group on Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (5 Dec 2019)
Martin Conway: We might talk again about it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Report of the Expert Group on Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (5 Dec 2019)
Martin Conway: Perhaps we need to go back to a place where we do tell them what to do.
- Seanad: International Day of Persons with Disabilities: Statements (4 Dec 2019)
Martin Conway: I will give way to Senator Devine if she would like to begin. The usual protocol, Acting Chairman, is that an Opposition Member goes first.
- Seanad: International Day of Persons with Disabilities: Statements (4 Dec 2019)
Martin Conway: Tá fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit go dtí an Teach. It is always a pleasure to have him in the House. His address referred to the interesting theme of this International Day of Persons with Disabilities, which is the participation of people with disabilities in leadership. I have always adopted a positive disposition. I believe in looking at the glass as half full. As a...
- Seanad: International Day of Persons with Disabilities: Statements (4 Dec 2019)
Martin Conway: The Senator should put down a Commencement matter.
- Seanad: International Day of Persons with Disabilities: Statements (4 Dec 2019)
Martin Conway: I am just trying to be helpful.
- Seanad: International Day of Persons with Disabilities: Statements (4 Dec 2019)
Martin Conway: Flexibility.