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Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2019)

Fintan Warfield: I want to address an issue already raised by Deputy Joan Collins concerning the Traveller health action plan. I understand that a draft plan has been circulated to the community and non-governmental organisations, NGOs, but some people are dissatisfied with the draft plan. Has the Minister of State seen the report? Is he satisfied with the recommendations for mental health? When will the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2019)

Fintan Warfield: The Traveller health action plan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2019)

Fintan Warfield: Senator Freeman has mentioned the all-party Oireachtas joint committee report and its recommendations concerning Travellers. Does the Government intend to implement the recommendations?

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2019)

Fintan Warfield: When will the all-of-government health action plan be launched?

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2019)

Fintan Warfield: I hope that the plan will be launched before the end of term. Did the Minister of State seek increases in the budget in order to address the issue that we are speaking about today? Did he have such conversations?

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2019)

Fintan Warfield: I thank everyone for his or her contribution. I hope my question is not stupid. If a member of the Traveller community decides to approach mental health services, can he or she be confident that the person opposite him or her will be a member of the Traveller community?

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2019)

Fintan Warfield: A member of the Traveller community.

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2019)

Fintan Warfield: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2019)

Fintan Warfield: That is interesting. I commenced work on so-called gay conversion therapy and believed the practice was apparent just in rogue groups, some north of the Border and some within the Catholic Church. To my horror, there was a Trinity College Dublin report on negative experiences of mental health services among LGBT people. Obviously, there are lingering effects from criminalisation and...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Mutual Recognition of Decisions on Supervision Measures) Bill 2019: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Oct 2019)

Fintan Warfield: I am speaking on behalf of our justice spokesperson. The Minister of State will know that Sinn Féin supported this legislation, which will have the effect of allowing an Irish resident who is sentenced to a period of probation while temporarily in another member state of the EU to return home and be supervised by the Irish probation service. It is a prudent measure that makes sense for...

Seanad: Parent's Leave and Benefit Bill 2019: Second Stage (9 Oct 2019)

Fintan Warfield: I would like to refer to an article that was published in The Irish Times on 23 April last under the headline "Adoptive benefit to be paid to gay couples under new law" and the subheading "Legal anomaly left male same-sex adoptive parents unable to claim State benefit". It states:An anomaly in the law that prevented male same-sex couples from receiving adoptive leave and benefit is set to be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Business of Joint Committee (9 Oct 2019)

Fintan Warfield: I second that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Fintan Warfield: I thank everyone for accommodating our request for five minutes. I know it is a difficult request but it is a discussion we had last week. We thought there was a benefit in having as many voices at the table as possible and I hope the conversation will be able to flex out. I thank the witnesses for the work they do in supporting our young people. I must apologise because I will have to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Fintan Warfield: I appreciate Mental Health Reform's work in that regard and the update on the Government's legislation. Yesterday Mental Health Reform and other groups sought clarification on budget allocations, for example, whether the €25 million not spent last year formed part of this year's €35 million allocation. Has anyone received an update? I spent most of yesterday reading between...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Fintan Warfield: Hear, hear.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Fintan Warfield: I sit on the new Joint Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community. Recently, we heard about mental health issues affecting that community, with suicide rates six times higher than in wider society. One of the delegates invited the committee to ask a meeting of Travellers anywhere in Ireland whether they had been affected by suicide. He said nearly every Traveller would raise...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Fintan Warfield: The point about racism is one we all need to acknowledge and take ownership of. We also need to acknowledge that there might be an unconscious bias. It was embarrassing to sit at a meeting of the Joint Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community with no Traveller voice on our side of the room. There is a job for all political parties to do in that regard. Seeing oneself in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Fintan Warfield: I apologise because I have to leave. I thank all of the delegates for the work they do in supporting young people.

Seanad: Budget 2020: Statements (8 Oct 2019)

Fintan Warfield: Notions of grandeur.

Seanad: Budget 2020: Statements (8 Oct 2019)

Fintan Warfield: I am absolutely horrified by the lack of funding for culture in the budget. In particular, only €1.25 million in new funding is allocated to the Arts Council. I am sure we will discuss the broader issues with the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht in the coming weeks, but I am glad the Minister of State, Deputy D'Arcy, is here today, so that I can focus specifically on...