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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 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...

Seanad: Social Welfare (Surviving Cohabitant’s Pension) Bill 2021: Second Stage (26 Oct 2022)

Eileen Flynn: No, it is absolutely fine. I thank the Minister.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: White Papers (25 Oct 2022)

Eileen Flynn: I thank the Minister for coming here himself. I hope to receive an update about the White Paper on the end of direct provision. I understand there are additional pressures on the system this year. I am aware the Department stated this week that it is accommodating more than 58,000 people who arrived in Ireland this year, including 42,000 Ukrainians and 16,000 people seeking international...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: White Papers (25 Oct 2022)

Eileen Flynn: I thank the Minister for his honesty. We are looking for clarity and, most important, people living in direct provision are looking for clarity. We are discussing HIQA and integration, which are critical for people living in direct provision, but for people who have been living in direct provision centres for three to four years, or even ten years in the odd case, having a home after...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)

Eileen Flynn: Last week we had the HSE and the Department before the committee and it was a daunting session. There was a sense of people giving pats on the back. I mean no disrespect about all the great work that is being done but then listening to parents and the experience on the ground it is different. I would encourage the Department to look over what people have said in the committee today. Last...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)

Eileen Flynn: There are similar cases in Donegal where children have to travel the whole way around the county to get to school, and they can be travelling for up to two hours with all the stopping and so on. That is an issue we will have to look at. I thank our guests for their responses. I appreciate they are under great pressure.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Mental Health Supports in Schools and Tertiary Education: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)

Eileen Flynn: Sharing the Vision is just this nightmare in my head at the minute. Anyway, moving on. It is always important for people who have experience, even as a politician or whatever, to draw on that experience and say that they know what they are speaking about. When I was just 11, I was in a very bad accident. I lost my mother a few days before that accident. There were no supports around...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Enforcement of Court Orders relating to Child Maintenance, Access and Custody: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)

Eileen Flynn: Not at the moment, thank you.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Enforcement of Court Orders relating to Child Maintenance, Access and Custody: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)

Eileen Flynn: When talking about children's access to parents, the delegates put the child at the heart of the conversation, and rightly so, but my question is about married people from mixed communities. I have been speaking to a woman whose partner has reported her three times to Tusla. She is from the Traveller community. She feels absolutely powerless because her husband is a member of the settled...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Enforcement of Court Orders relating to Child Maintenance, Access and Custody: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)

Eileen Flynn: To be clear, I am aware of some of the recommendations to date but I was seeking an opportunity to raise the matter.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Enforcement of Court Orders relating to Child Maintenance, Access and Custody: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)

Eileen Flynn: We need more judges who understand poor people and those from ethnic minority groups, and some of the real issues on the ground for ordinary people. That is not to mean any disrespect but it would be a great starting point for judges to be educated on what is going on in communities and with children.

Seanad: Poverty and Social Exclusion: Motion (19 Oct 2022)

Eileen Flynn: As the other Senators were speaking, I was thinking about my own life experience in poverty. My mother was 22 years dead last Wednesday due to pneumonia and bad living conditions. I remember growing up on a halting site in a three bedroom house where five of us used to sleep in the one room and where my mother would light a candle. I remember one time a producer asking me in RTÉ was I...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Oct 2022)

Eileen Flynn: Over the past few weeks, I have called for the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, to come to the House to debate ending direct provision. I again thank the Leader for writing in and for supporting it. Unfortunately, I will need to submit a Commencement matter for next two or three weeks until I can get him in the House. It has come to my attention and to the attention of many other Senators that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy and Health: Health Service Executive (18 Oct 2022)

Eileen Flynn: It is critical that children with autism have supports in school. In rural locations like Ardara in County Donegal, there is little or no support for autistic children. Parents have resorted to setting up groups in these areas so that all special needs children can meet once a week. It is very tough to secure supports in rural communities. The people seated around this table are not to...