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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2022)
Eileen Flynn: What about other ethnic minorities, such as migrants and refugees? It is so important this lifeline be given to everyone in Ireland.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2022)
Eileen Flynn: I would greatly appreciate that. Migrants Rights Centre Ireland is also carrying out some great work with carers who are migrants. It would be brilliant to learn more about what Mr. Conlon mentioned.
- Seanad: Mental Health and Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Statements (24 Feb 2022)
Eileen Flynn: I thank the Minister of State for coming to the House today to address this critical matter. My colleagues and I in the Civil Engagement Group are very passionate about mental health and the inequality that young people from disadvantaged communities experience in the mental health system. Yesterday my colleague, Senator Lynn Ruane, brought forward a motion on a drugs citizens' assembly...
- Seanad: Mental Health and Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Statements (24 Feb 2022)
Eileen Flynn: I know. I am just putting that on the record. I thank the Minister of State.
- Seanad: Mental Health and Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Statements (24 Feb 2022)
Eileen Flynn: I understand that. I am still very new to all this.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Education with the UNCRPD (Resumed): Discussion (24 Feb 2022)
Eileen Flynn: I thank the witnesses for coming before the committee. I am substituting for Senator Higgins. I have listened to the witnesses speak about how daunting going to a third level institution can be after being diagnosed early. I came through the education system with dyslexia. I was diagnosed at a very late stage. I remember going into Trinity College and thinking I was stupid and different...
- Seanad: Citizens' Assemblies: Motion (23 Feb 2022)
Eileen Flynn: Yes, I am sharing my time with Senator Higgins.
- Seanad: Citizens' Assemblies: Motion (23 Feb 2022)
Eileen Flynn: I do not have a speech prepared for this discussion. Listening to Senator Ruane, I thought of some of the friends I went to school with who have died from taking drugs and drug addiction. I also think of some young Traveller men. The high rate of suicide within the Traveller community is also caused by drug addiction. We have a homelessness crisis and Travellers are overrepresented in the...
- Seanad: Citizens' Assemblies: Motion (23 Feb 2022)
Eileen Flynn: I second the amendment.
- Seanad: Citizens' Assemblies: Motion (23 Feb 2022)
Eileen Flynn: I second the amendment.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Feb 2022)
Eileen Flynn: We support the call for the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, to come into the House to have a debate about where we are on ending direct provision. Too often I come into this House and speak about the people we are leaving behind. On 28 February we are leaving behind our most vulnerable people. We are leaving behind people in our society with long-term health issues and who will now be living in...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (22 Feb 2022)
Eileen Flynn: I am delighted to have third level education behind me. Young people watching this debate will have heard the likes of Deputy Jim O'Callaghan saying students could pay back college fees when they are in their 40s, but people in my generation cannot even afford a house. It is ever so daunting a conversation we are having. As for looking at the European level and trying to compare ourselves...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (22 Feb 2022)
Eileen Flynn: Access is one thing but equality of opportunity to be able to be successful in our universities is something else that has rarely been supported.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (22 Feb 2022)
Eileen Flynn: I am not being naive. Obviously a lot has to be done. What the witnesses are looking for is the Minister and the Department not to reinvent the wheel but to work with what we already have and with the solutions the witnesses have already provided. I thank the witnesses.
- Seanad: Child Trafficking and Child Sexual Exploitation Material (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (3 Feb 2022)
Eileen Flynn: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I am sharing time with Senator Ruane. I am delighted with the work that has been achieved in respect of the Bill thus far. The phrase "child pornography" has always made me feel uneasy, but since becoming a mother I have realised how inappropriate and disgusting it is. It is out of date and completely incorrect. It does not truly reflect...
- Seanad: Child Trafficking and Child Sexual Exploitation Material (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (3 Feb 2022)
Eileen Flynn: I thank the Minister of State for coming to the House. I thank him for highlighting some of the issues that his Department believes will arise. I was delighted to hear from Senator Ward who has experience in this field and rightly said that the courts name it for what it is, which is child exploitation. I thank the Minister of State for the fact that the Government has not opposed the Bill...
- Seanad: Child Trafficking and Child Sexual Exploitation Material (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (3 Feb 2022)
Eileen Flynn: Next Tuesday.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Equality and Non-Discrimination: Discussion (3 Feb 2022)
Eileen Flynn: I am attending on behalf of Senator Alice-Mary Higgins. I thank the witnesses for appearing before us. Listening to Ms Dennehy really opened my eyes to the little things we take for granted on a daily basis. I heard the figure of 40 people. For me, that is 40 people too many living in inequality due to disability needs. I would not use the word "easier" but the State could put something...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Feb 2022)
Eileen Flynn: Anyone in this House who has not heard of Ronnie Fay is not on the right side of justice or politics. Ronnie worked in the Traveller movement for better positive social change for our community and with our community. She was the director of Pavee Point for more than 35 years. Ronnie was a true ally of the Traveller community. This morning, I am thinking of Philip, her children and her...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Feb 2022)
Eileen Flynn: It is brilliant to see the Acting Leader in the seat today and I hope that she will be there many more times. I wish that leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled Child Trafficking and Child Sexual Exploitation Material (Amendment) Bill 2022. I am delighted to introduce my very first Private Members' Bill, which I believe addresses a very important language issue in our legislation. I...