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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Rights-Based Care for People with Disabilities: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Eileen Flynn: Why do mental health service not deal with children who are autistic? They do, to a certain extent. This is something I could not get my head around, even in the Joint Committee on Autism. Deputy Tully was a member of the Joint Committee on Autism too. Does anybody have that answer, seeing as we are on the point?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Rights-Based Care for People with Disabilities: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Eileen Flynn: I will finish, because we are on the point and it is so important. Do the witnesses believe it is discriminating towards children and young people who are autistic that they do not have equal access to mental health services? It is something that we have looked at in a previous committee and it is something that this committee-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Rights-Based Care for People with Disabilities: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Eileen Flynn: I should not come in like this, I am sorry.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Rights-Based Care for People with Disabilities: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Eileen Flynn: I thank Dr. Hillery.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Rights-Based Care for People with Disabilities: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Eileen Flynn: While we are focusing on Jack, the three-year-old on whom the investigation was done, we never mentioned the three recommendations that we failed to deliver on and that an assessment process to determine the needs of children in similar circumstances was being developed to provide a specific support package for them. We need to ensure there is ring-fenced funding for these services and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Rights-Based Care for People with Disabilities: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Eileen Flynn: That is a tool now that I can be able to quote Dr. Hillery. It is important that we are honest and ask what the solutions are. This committee is here to find these solutions. It is not taking away from people at the table but it is about that true, meaningful change of access for young children with disabilities. Jack was lucky, thankfully. However, there are hundreds of young children...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Rights-Based Care for People with Disabilities: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Eileen Flynn: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Rights-Based Care for People with Disabilities: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Eileen Flynn: Why is that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Rights-Based Care for People with Disabilities: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Eileen Flynn: We could put that down as a recommendation in the report and we could lobby on that and push it through.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Rights-Based Care for People with Disabilities: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Eileen Flynn: One-hundred percent.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Rights-Based Care for People with Disabilities: Discussion (8 Nov 2023)

Eileen Flynn: But it is also important we implement the recommendations that have been made.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Consent Programmes in Irish Education: Discussion (7 Nov 2023)

Eileen Flynn: I am so privileged to go out to schools and to be invited in to be a guest speaker in the programmes in some schools around active consent, gender equality etc. I remember working with the Donegal Rape Crisis Centre two years ago around active consent in schools. It told me it was underfunded and did not know if it would be able to roll it out the next year to transition year students. ...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Consent Programmes in Irish Education: Discussion (7 Nov 2023)

Eileen Flynn: The Department needs to consider that because active consent includes every single child in the school. It is a matter of having the conversations with the parents as well, which is really important. On funding, Donegal Rape Crisis Centre was doing active consent training in some schools for a year but could not roll it out to other schools. The younger we can reach the children –...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Consent Programmes in Irish Education: Discussion (7 Nov 2023)

Eileen Flynn: It a case of looking at where we are today rather than ten or 15 years ago.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Consent Programmes in Irish Education: Discussion (7 Nov 2023)

Eileen Flynn: I thank the witnesses.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Consent Programmes in Irish Education: Discussion (7 Nov 2023)

Eileen Flynn: Even for youth groups outreach is important. The non-formal education in those settings can be more effective in some cases.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Consent Programmes in Irish Education: Discussion (7 Nov 2023)

Eileen Flynn: Never say there is enough money.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Consent Programmes in Irish Education: Discussion (7 Nov 2023)

Eileen Flynn: It is really about valuing the active consent programme and the other programmes. We see the Rape Crisis Centre going into schools doing work. Some of those programmes are only working from year to year. Overall, the question is how do we invest. This is something the committee will keep pushing. From being a member of this committee for the last two years, I see that we expect an...

Seanad: Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Oct 2023)

Eileen Flynn: I move amendment No. 2 : In page 7, between lines 24 and 25, to insert the following: “(b) does not include any devices or systems that are capable of processing the record made under paragraph (a) with facial recognition technology,”. The amendment would enhance the definition of "recording device" to clarify that no data collected with a Garda recording device could be...

Seanad: Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (24 Oct 2023)

Eileen Flynn: I move amendment No. 5: In page 10, between lines 10 and 11, to insert the following: “(2) A member of Garda personnel shall operate, or cause to be operated, a recording device where they are requested to do so by an individual with whom they are engaged in the course of their duties.”. Amendments Nos. 5 and 6 would require gardaí to turn on their bodycams if...