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Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jul 2021)

Eileen Flynn: Would any other member like to ask a question?

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jul 2021)

Eileen Flynn: Would any other member like to come in or would any witness like to make final remarks?

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jul 2021)

Eileen Flynn: We will do that. I thank the witnesses for coming in today and presenting to the committee. It was a very informative discussion. I thank all of the witnesses and I ask that they continue the good work they are doing.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Jun 2021)

Eileen Flynn: June is Pride month and it is also Gypsy, Traveller and Roma History Month. It is important to remember as we celebrate that LGBTQI+, Traveller and Roma people have always been with us. It is important to remember activism and support must be intersectional. The national action group for LGBT+ Traveller and Roma people understands that. It needs to be supported in the vital work it does....

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Jun 2021)

Eileen Flynn: I extend my full support to the people from Donegal and others who are in Dublin today to call for 100% redress for homeowners affected by mica. Homeowners have long said that the current scheme is not fit for the purpose. The time for action is now. On another matter, I will talk about an inequality in our system that continues to affect some parents who are not married but are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Bullying and the Impact on Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Jun 2021)

Eileen Flynn: I thank the Chairman. I thank the witnesses for presenting to us today and for taking time out from their busy schedules to discuss this really important issue. I will not repeat what other members have said. I will keep it really short. I was really struck by what Professor O'Higgins Norman said about image and how research has shown a lot of children get bullied because of image. Is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Bullying and the Impact on Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Jun 2021)

Eileen Flynn: That is perfect. I would extend it to children with additional special needs in the classroom or children with disabilities who are in mainstream school. Was there any research done around young people with additional special needs?

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Jun 2021)

Eileen Flynn: Today, physically and mentally I was not able to chair this meeting. Reading the report when it first came out brought me right back to Carrickmines and brought me back to my childhood. I am now a 31-year-old mother. I can only speak of the experience of the halting site where I was born and reared. That halting site opened in 1967. At the moment, its redevelopment is not even being...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Jun 2021)

Eileen Flynn: I again thank Dr. Muldoon and Ms Ward for this outstanding report, No End in Site. It is to be hoped that the future will look bright for Traveller children and we will not have to see other generations of children growing up in dire accommodation. I, too, am of the mindset that every recommendation is important. As I said, it is not about recreating the wheel. Many of the answers are in...

Seanad: Employment Equality (Amendment) (Non-Disclosure Agreements) Bill 2021: Second Stage (14 Jun 2021)

Eileen Flynn: I thank the Leas-Chathaoirleach and I thank the Minister for supporting Senator Ruane's Bill. Sorry, I am after running in.

Seanad: Employment Equality (Amendment) (Non-Disclosure Agreements) Bill 2021: Second Stage (14 Jun 2021)

Eileen Flynn: I am proud to co-sponsor this important Bill. I cannot speak because I am out of breath after running in.

Seanad: Employment Equality (Amendment) (Non-Disclosure Agreements) Bill 2021: Second Stage (14 Jun 2021)

Eileen Flynn: I apologise for the earlier episode. Today, we are part of history. I thank Senator Ruane and her office for all the hard work she has done on this Bill to date. Before I ever had the opportunity to come to this House, Senator Ruane has been a great role model to young women like myself. I thank her and her office from the bottom of my heart for bringing this legislation forward today....

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (1 Jun 2021)

Eileen Flynn: I welcome our witnesses. Before I introduce them and we hear from them, I wish to mention apologies that have been received from some Deputies and Senators, including Deputies Bríd Smith and David Stanton, who cannot make the meeting. I thank the Business Committee for organising and facilitating our meeting in public session. I remind members that they must be in Leinster House or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (1 Jun 2021)

Eileen Flynn: I thank Ms Maughan for her very powerful presentation. The truth of what Traveller communities still go through is very sad.

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (1 Jun 2021)

Eileen Flynn: I thank Ms Kelly for her presentation. It is always so hard to hear the inequalities that Traveller women and children, and the community as a whole, still face in 21st century Ireland. It is a remarkable day. Accommodation has been an issue over the past week and it is important we keep bringing attention to it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (1 Jun 2021)

Eileen Flynn: I thank Mr. Collins. I will now open up the meeting to members.

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (1 Jun 2021)

Eileen Flynn: Thank you, Senator. Just note that there is no such thing as a settled Traveller. I now open up the floor to the committee to answer your questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (1 Jun 2021)

Eileen Flynn: That is fine. I am just offering the more correct information. I am just doing my job. That is all.

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (1 Jun 2021)

Eileen Flynn: Mr. Collins, would you like to come back in to respond to Senator O'Sullivan?