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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at Local Level: Discussion (Resumed) (1 May 2024)
Eileen Flynn: However, I also believe that we should be more ambitious for people with disabilities.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at Local Level: Discussion (Resumed) (1 May 2024)
Eileen Flynn: Yes. That is why I kept going on. They will still have to vote.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at Local Level: Discussion (Resumed) (1 May 2024)
Eileen Flynn: That is a really important question and it was something I was going to suggest as well. Our role as a committee is to have a report at the end of each term and we will make recommendations in it. It is important that we listen and that the organisations get their recommendations out there, as the Senator has said.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at Local Level: Discussion (Resumed) (1 May 2024)
Eileen Flynn: It is tough for people from marginalised communities to even apply for a job in the Civil Service. I know that myself from the work I do. Ms McKenna can tell us that we need to get the information out there. How do we do that in a community base? How do we support organisations to deliver that information to people on the ground who may want a job? We have opened Civil Service jobs up...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at Local Level: Discussion (Resumed) (1 May 2024)
Eileen Flynn: It is not worth it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at Local Level: Discussion (Resumed) (1 May 2024)
Eileen Flynn: That is happening in Leinster House as well.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at Local Level: Discussion (Resumed) (1 May 2024)
Eileen Flynn: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at Local Level: Discussion (Resumed) (1 May 2024)
Eileen Flynn: Yes, and that is what we can get better at.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at Local Level: Discussion (Resumed) (1 May 2024)
Eileen Flynn: Chair, we did not stop talking.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at Local Level: Discussion (Resumed) (1 May 2024)
Eileen Flynn: I thank the Chair.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at Local Level: Discussion (Resumed) (1 May 2024)
Eileen Flynn: Having one Member, and even the conversation about how we had one Member, is not enough during the history of politics in this country. To put the record straight one person who was a Member of the Houses of the Oireachtas was also a wheelchair user. I know it was only recently that the Houses and the AV room were made wheelchair-friendly. I know this committee meeting remit is not about...
- Seanad: Loneliness: Motion (1 May 2024)
Eileen Flynn: We will discuss the motion on loneliness, brought forward by the Green Party group. Time is limited to 60 minutes, with speakers having six minutes apiece. I welcome the Minister of State to the Seanad.
- Seanad: Loneliness: Motion (1 May 2024)
Eileen Flynn: Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Seanad: Loneliness: Motion (1 May 2024)
Eileen Flynn: Originally, I was not going to speak on this topic. When I saw that the Green Party had tabled a motion on loneliness, I thought that was interesting. Then I read the motion and realised that what it calls for is absolutely critical within society. As Senator Boyhan said, we have many action plans to tackle loneliness in this country but we have not had any action around those plans. It...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Apr 2024)
Eileen Flynn: I must first say that I stand in solidarity with the Minister for Justice, Deputy Helen McEntee and with the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, Deputy Roderic O'Gorman. The hassle these two representatives had to go through in the last number of weeks has been absolutely appalling. I just wanted to put this on record. Yesterday the National Museum of...
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Give Travellers the Floor: Discussion (18 Apr 2024)
Eileen Flynn: I welcome you all here this morning. It is absolutely overwhelming to have the Seanad Chamber full of members of our community. It is a day and an opportunity for people to speak. This is a legacy and history. We can tell our children and our grandchildren that we were doing something different and making the change. This day is evidence that things are changing and moving in the right...
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Give Travellers the Floor: Discussion (18 Apr 2024)
Eileen Flynn: I thank Mr. Joyce. I call Ms Nora Corcoran from the Galway Traveller Movement.
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Give Travellers the Floor: Discussion (18 Apr 2024)
Eileen Flynn: Well done, James. All our thoughts are with the people in Palestine and Gaza. We express our solidarity to people in Gaza today. I call Latisha McCrudden, who is also a young Traveller activist. She is very welcome and I thank her for being here.