Results 541-560 of 1,498 for speaker:Eileen Flynn
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Disability Services (24 Jan 2024)
Eileen Flynn: I welcome the Minister of State to the House.
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Disability Services (24 Jan 2024)
Eileen Flynn: Has the Senator changed the person’s name? We are not allowed to identify a person.
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Disability Services (24 Jan 2024)
Eileen Flynn: Did the Senator get permission to use their name?
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Disability Services (24 Jan 2024)
Eileen Flynn: Okay. It is just the rules of the House; it is not me.
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Disability Services (24 Jan 2024)
Eileen Flynn: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte.
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Consumer Prices (24 Jan 2024)
Eileen Flynn: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Richmond.
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Consumer Prices (24 Jan 2024)
Eileen Flynn: I welcome our students and their teachers this morning. It is lovely to see young people in our Gallery. I thank them and hope they enjoy the rest of their visit.
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Business Supports (24 Jan 2024)
Eileen Flynn: I welcome the students from Glasnevin and their teachers. It is powerful to see our young people coming into the Houses. We hope they enjoy the rest of their visit.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)
Eileen Flynn: I thank the Minister for being here. When I first came here, I did not really understand about the technological universities. I had to learn as I went along, like many others around the table. The level of change in the past few years has been mind-blowing. Students have the opportunity now to be educated at home if they can and want to opt into that. It is absolutely brilliant. I...
- Seanad: An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Teaghlach), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Jan 2024)
Eileen Flynn: Hear, hear.
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Dec 2023)
Eileen Flynn: I thank Ms Collins. With regard to the point on electricity credits I am working with the Minister of State, Deputy Smyth, to make sure every Traveller in the country who is paying for electricity will get access to the credit. As Ms Collins said, it is nowhere in sight and people are still missing out. I will speak with National Traveller MABS after the meeting and we will try to have...
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Dec 2023)
Eileen Flynn: I thank the Deputy. Is it agreed that the committee will write a letter to the Department of Social Protection? Agreed. This is very interesting. The committee has spoken about the short-term solutions that end up being bigger down the line. Our aim is so ambitious and we should be ambitious but sometimes we are not ambitious enough. As a committee, we are looking for doable wins that...
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Dec 2023)
Eileen Flynn: Before the witnesses answer, I suggest that we table an amendment to the Planning and Development Act in Private Members' time. Deputy Joan Collins or any other member, including me, could do that in the Dáil or Seanad. I flag that as something we could do for the organisations. We could bring an amendment through the Seanad. I ask the witnesses to respond to Deputy Collins's questions.
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Dec 2023)
Eileen Flynn: I ask Cena to send in the application form that it submitted. .
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Dec 2023)
Eileen Flynn: Then we can work with that, which is important. Also, around Cena, is that level of discrimination. Mr. Collins spoke about an attitude of not in my backyard and not wanting Travellers to live in communities.
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Dec 2023)
Eileen Flynn: I am sure that the other delegations wish to answer the question on access asked by Deputy Collins.
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Dec 2023)
Eileen Flynn: I have spoken to the Minister of State, Deputy Carroll MacNeill. She is very open to sitting down with MABS to make sure that Travellers have equal access to financial services. Any time that I have spoken to her in the corridors, on getting Travellers equal access to services like financial services, she has been very good. We must arrange to meet her in January.
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Dec 2023)
Eileen Flynn: Yes. Our focus, as a committee, is to get quick wins.
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Dec 2023)
Eileen Flynn: That is a really good idea.
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Dec 2023)
Eileen Flynn: It would be very strong if it comes from the committee because it is a cross-party forum.