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- Seanad: Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (27 Oct 2022)
Eileen Flynn: I move amendment No. 11: In page 4, between lines 16 and 17, to insert the following: “(3) Subsection (2) shall not apply in cases where non-compliance with the ground for termination specified in paragraph 2 of the Table to section 34 of the Act of 2004 was previously established and no notice was subsequently issued in respect of that noncompliance before the date of the...
- Seanad: Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (27 Oct 2022)
Eileen Flynn: I move amendment No. 12: In page 4, between lines 16 and 17, to insert the following: “(3) Subsection (2) shall not apply in cases where there is a failure by the tenant to pay rent, taxes or charges due if a tenant can supply evidence of financial hardship, can supply evidence that paying rent would leave them unable to afford other necessities, or can otherwise...
- Seanad: Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (27 Oct 2022)
Eileen Flynn: It is not agreed. Can I say a few words on this section, please, or am I allowed to?.
- Seanad: Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (27 Oct 2022)
Eileen Flynn: I want ordinary people to know that I am in support of this Bill but we are all liars if we say that it protects Travellers because it does not. Amendments Nos. 16 and 17, being ruled out of order due to the fact-----
- Seanad: Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (27 Oct 2022)
Eileen Flynn: I am going to still do it because if I have to be put out of this House today-----
- Seanad: Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (27 Oct 2022)
Eileen Flynn: ----- because it is discrimination and I am going to keep on saying it because it is exactly what it says on the tin.
- Seanad: Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (27 Oct 2022)
Eileen Flynn: Whether the Senator likes or does not like it, it is exactly what it says on the tin, and it is discrimination towards my community and I will not stand for it. Okay, end of story.
- Seanad: Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (27 Oct 2022)
Eileen Flynn: Oh my God, I will keep at this.
- Seanad: Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (27 Oct 2022)
Eileen Flynn: A Leas-Chathaoirligh excuse me for a moment but you do not understand what it is like to be in here to represent-----
- Seanad: Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (27 Oct 2022)
Eileen Flynn: I will let the other Members speak but when it is my turn to speak, I will get up and speak.
- Seanad: Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (27 Oct 2022)
Eileen Flynn: I said we would only be lying if we said it was not discrimination.
- Seanad: Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (27 Oct 2022)
Eileen Flynn: That is not how I said it.
- Seanad: Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (27 Oct 2022)
Eileen Flynn: As a member of the Traveller community I believe that not accepting amendments Nos. 16 and 17 is discrimination towards my community.
- Seanad: Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (27 Oct 2022)
Eileen Flynn: I just want to make sure to make it again, please. To believe that we are not being discriminatory is being part of the problem. For me, I am not, as I have tried my best to get these amendments put in. I say to the Minister of State that I am in support of the Bill, 150%, but I am not in support of the three amendments which we submitted on behalf of the Irish Traveller movement and its...
- Seanad: Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (27 Oct 2022)
Eileen Flynn: This is a little bit personalised.
- Seanad: Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (27 Oct 2022)
Eileen Flynn: I did not make my point.
- Seanad: Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (27 Oct 2022)
Eileen Flynn: As I was saying to the Minister of State, I support the Bill and I did not wish to cause offence to anybody but I live and breathe in this community and not to accept those amendments is very disheartening. I do take it personally. Sometimes one has to take it personally when you are the one that is living in it and working with the people on the ground. For many of the Members, for the...
- Seanad: School Transport: Statements (26 Oct 2022)
Eileen Flynn: I welcome the Minister, Deputy Foley, to the House. She will have six minutes and group spokespersons will have seven minutes.
- Seanad: School Transport: Statements (26 Oct 2022)
Eileen Flynn: I thank the Minister. The first spokesperson for Fianna Fáil is Senator Chambers.
- Seanad: Social Welfare (Surviving Cohabitant’s Pension) Bill 2021: Second Stage (26 Oct 2022)
Eileen Flynn: It should not matter if people are cohabiting or if they are married but the fact is that it does matter. If it did not matter, John would not have had to take a case against the State. It matters financially. When I was ten years of age my mother passed away. It was her anniversary this time last week, the same great, wonderful person - I speak about her very often. If my father had not...