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- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Travellers in Prison: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)
Eileen Flynn: Thank you, Deputy. Ms Brady, would you like to come in?
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Travellers in Prison: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)
Eileen Flynn: The absolute last resort is to put a pregnant woman in prison. Thank you, Deputy Buckley. Over the summer, the Vice Chairperson, Deputy Ó Cuív, announced that he will not be running in the next election. As Travellers, we are very grateful for the work Deputy Ó Cuív has done for years, especially for Travellers in prison and people in prison in general. I do not...
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Travellers in Prison: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)
Eileen Flynn: Deputy Ó Cuív met a man in Castlerea who said he has been a long time on remand.
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Travellers in Prison: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)
Eileen Flynn: Are Travellers kept longer on remand than people from the general population?
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Travellers in Prison: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)
Eileen Flynn: This shows the level of funding needed from the Department of Justice.
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Travellers in Prison: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)
Eileen Flynn: I have some questions that perhaps cannot be answered today because we are due to finish at 12.30 p.m. For us as a committee, it is not just about visiting halting sites and not taking any action. It is not just about going into the prisons and seeing the men and women and leaving it there. It has really opened up my eyes. In Castlerea Prison, Ms Costello said that we are not looking for...
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Travellers in Prison: Discussion (26 Sep 2024)
Eileen Flynn: I thank Ms Sweeney and everyone else so much. We will go back to being a little bit formal again. Would any members of the committee like to raise any other matters? No. We will meet again next Thursday, 3 October 2024, at 10.30 a.m., when we will have representatives with us from the Irish Travellers' Access to Justice Project, so the work continues. On 10 October 2024, then, at 10...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Sep 2024)
Eileen Flynn: This morning, I met representatives from the Irish Foster Care Association and learned of some of the inequalities that foster parents and children experience. If a foster child is coming to someone's home, a lot of the time, the child comes with just the schoolbag on his or her back without any start-up grant for a bed or a few little toys to make the child feel at home. The child or...
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)
Eileen Flynn: I move amendment No. 63: In page 67, between lines 33 and 34, to insert the following: “(vi) the promotion of accessible and inclusive urban design;”.
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)
Eileen Flynn: I move amendment No. 64: In page 67, between lines 33 and 34, to insert the following: “(vi) the provision of suitable Traveller accommodation and community facilities;”.
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)
Eileen Flynn: I will speak briefly on the amendment on Traveller accommodation that the Minister, Deputy O'Brien, has indicated his Department cannot accept. Yesterday, while the Minister of State was in this Chamber, he made a comment that Traveller accommodation falls under the traveller accommodation programme, TAP, which is handled at a local and national level as well. That is the problem. It has...
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)
Eileen Flynn: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)
Eileen Flynn: I second the amendment.
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)
Eileen Flynn: I second the amendment.
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)
Eileen Flynn: I second the amendment.
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)
Eileen Flynn: I second the amendment.
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)
Eileen Flynn: I second the amendment.
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)
Eileen Flynn: I second the amendment.
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)
Eileen Flynn: I second the amendment.
- Seanad: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (25 Sep 2024)
Eileen Flynn: I second the amendment.