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Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Election of Cathaoirleach (21 Jun 2023)

Eileen Flynn: Not today. We will just put it out there today and if members want to nominate themselves for the next meeting, they can do so. Thank you. Is it agreed that we go into private session? Agreed.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Election of Cathaoirleach (21 Jun 2023)

Eileen Flynn: I thank members so much for nominating me as Cathaoirleach. It is a privilege to be the Cathaoirleach of the Joint Committee on Key Issues Affecting the Traveller Community (2023). I note to the many members who are around the table today that this will be a longstanding committee. It is quite an achievement. Even if we were never to get back in as part of the Irish Parliament again, it...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Second Stage (13 Jun 2023)

Eileen Flynn: I welcome the Minister to the House. It is good to have her back. Many people and civil organisations have worked hard for many years on hate crime legislation. The Irish Traveller Movement, Pavee Point, the Irish Network Against Racism, INAR, Migrant Rights Centre Ireland, the National Women's Council of Ireland and many other organisations never stop working for human rights and equality...

Seanad: Government Commitments on Offshore Renewable Energy: Motion (31 May 2023)

Eileen Flynn: I welcome the people from Claremorris National School to the Chamber. The motion is regarding Government commitments on offshore renewable energy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (30 May 2023)

Eileen Flynn: I thank the Cathaoirleach. First, I thank Family Carers Ireland for all of the work, not just today or yesterday, but for many years and the changes made on behalf of the people it works for which have happened over the past number of years. These have not been easy changes to provide value for carers within Irish society. What really struck me at the end of Ms Cox’s presentation...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (30 May 2023)

Eileen Flynn: I welcome the referendum, but my point is that it is sad for a society to even bring the matter to a referendum.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (30 May 2023)

Eileen Flynn: It would be interesting to get Family Carers Ireland's views on the referendum, what it thinks the challenges may be and how we can campaign. Obviously, no referendum is easy but I think people tend to vote in the context of the right thing to do.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Professional Accreditation of Higher Education Courses: Discussion (30 May 2023)

Eileen Flynn: A lot of the time people from disadvantaged backgrounds and minority groups tend to take caring courses. That is not to stereotype, but a lot of people tend to take caring courses and nursing courses as well. A person might go down that route and be told they would have a qualification at the end of it, only for that course, no matter which, not to be accredited. What is being done to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Professional Accreditation of Higher Education Courses: Discussion (30 May 2023)

Eileen Flynn: I have had experience where, say, ten or 12 Traveller women are doing a course in any area and then they are told that the provider is waiting to hear back from the Department if it can be accredited at the end of the year. Women are taking part in courses and then finding out at the very end that it is not accredited. Obviously it is still educational but they do not have the credits. We...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Professional Accreditation of Higher Education Courses: Discussion (30 May 2023)

Eileen Flynn: There are many of them around the country, more so at community level, where organisations like NGOs would support women or men to do a course. It might be about addiction or education about poverty. However, when they finish the course they find they do not get the credits they were expecting. I will send on those details.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó (Atógáil) - Order of Business (Resumed) (24 May 2023)

Eileen Flynn: This morning, I want to bring it to the attention of the House that the Traveller committee will be set up officially. I thank Members for supporting it. The one positive thing is that when I am long gone as a Member of Leinster House, the committee will still exist. It will have the power to hold the State to account and bring about good, meaningful, positive, life-changing and lifesaving...

Seanad: Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (24 May 2023)

Eileen Flynn: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (24 May 2023)

Eileen Flynn: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (24 May 2023)

Eileen Flynn: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Social Welfare (Child Benefit) Bill 2023: Second Stage (24 May 2023)

Eileen Flynn: I welcome the €100 increase in child benefit. I see people struggling on the ground on a daily basis. They are leaving food behind in shopping centres. We see it all the time. The Government says it is the increase in the cost of living and how it impacts on people, but I see a lot of greed in the shops. In local communities as well, I could go to one shop in a certain area where...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2023)

Eileen Flynn: I welcome the Minister of State to the committee. This committee is cross-party and very supportive of services for people with autism. To the best of my knowledge, autism is not a mental health issue. I have heard it said that people get diagnosed with autism through mental health services. I am not a professional but to the best of my knowledge, people are going there for support. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2023)

Eileen Flynn: I am sorry for cutting across, and I do not mean to be disrespectful towards the Minister of State in any way, but a child with severe autism could be at risk of taking his or her own life. I cannot remember the figure of young autistic people with mental health issues that Mr. Adam Harris cited at our meeting last week. Why can CAMHS not see such children in an emergency when the research...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2023)

Eileen Flynn: Is Dr. Niazi saying that, when GPs find out children have autism, they refer them to CAMHS straight away even though the children do not have mental health problems?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2023)

Eileen Flynn: I constantly see blatant discrimination within our mental health services against young people in the Traveller community. No matter who or what we are, everything can be done better, including in our mental health services, but this is pure discrimination. There could be a 17-year-old young man who is autistic but also has mental health problems and suicidal ideas in his head and who needs...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2023)

Eileen Flynn: Mr. Harris said something that struck me. If a person with autism attended an accident and emergency department with a broken arm, he or she could get it plastered just like any other patient, but it is not the same with mental health services. Instead of arguing with the witnesses and just giving them my opinion as a public representative, the evidence I have shows that what is happening...