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Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Education: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2019)

Colette Kelleher: The departmental officials who are responsible for the initiative are due to attend a future meeting of the committee, which will afford us an opportunity to discuss it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Education: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2019)

Colette Kelleher: We are not going back to segregated education, but will the delegates indicate which things from the past were helpful and should be reinstated? What new initiatives do they recommend? When he appeared before the committee, Mr. Thomas McCann spoke clearly about the mental health issues affecting members of the Traveller community and described an indifference to their difficulties. Do the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Education: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2019)

Colette Kelleher: Is the Yellow Flag programme on a firm financial footing and is it wide ranging enough to do the job? It sounds like a very positive initiative but I wonder how stable it is.

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Education: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2019)

Colette Kelleher: Will Ms Chaturvedi confirm that schools are applying to participate in the Yellow Flag programme but cannot be accepted because of a lack of resources and funding?

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Education: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2019)

Colette Kelleher: That is a terrible shame.

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Education: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2019)

Colette Kelleher: Does it receive any funding from the Department of Education and Skills?

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Education: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2019)

Colette Kelleher: It seems to be a very positive initiative.

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Education: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2019)

Colette Kelleher: It needs to be placed on a much firmer footing to do the work that is important. I welcome Jack Leahy from Malahide community school, Anna Crowley from Mount Anville, Martin McGibney from St. Patrick's College in Cavan and Hannah Furey from St. Anne's College in Killaloe. They are all transition year students. We hope we are giving them food for thought. I detect a sense of weariness...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Education: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2019)

Colette Kelleher: Political leadership from the State.

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Education: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2019)

Colette Kelleher: As Deputy Gino Kenny said, we must move forwards, not backwards. The State must be an activist and interventionist to bring about a shift.

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Education: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Nov 2019)

Colette Kelleher: We will have two more modules on education. We will have a chance to put the points made by the delegates to the Minister and his officials. I want to bang the drum for the Traveller Culture and History in Education Bill which has just passed through the Seanad. That is good, but it must continue its journey through the Dáil also. That is another part of the work that needs to...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Nov 2019)

Colette Kelleher: I was not going to speak but we need an honest debate in this House about asylum, refugees and economic migrants. That debate has to be framed by the notion and the belief that diversity is a positive thing and not de facto a negative thing. We should have our conversations and discussions in that light. I was an economic migrant for 17 years. I never felt like and never was a burden on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Business of Joint Committee (5 Nov 2019)

Colette Kelleher: The quorum for this joint committee is four because that is the combined quorum of two select committees, minus one, provided at least one of the members present is a Member of Dáil Éireann and at least one of the members present is a Member of Seanad Éireann. As we have a quorum, I call the meeting to order. Apologies have been received from Senator Paudie Coffey. I propose...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Health: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Nov 2019)

Colette Kelleher: I welcome all members of the joint committee and those who are watching. I understand these committee hearings are attracting considerable interest on Oireachtas News, which is good because not everybody can come here. I welcome our visitors to this meeting of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community. The purpose of the meeting is to continue our...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Health: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Nov 2019)

Colette Kelleher: I thank Ms O'Donoghue. This is her second time meeting the committee as she provided us with Traveller cultural awareness training before we began our deliberations. Those of us who were present found it illuminating and it has assisted us in our passage. There is more to learn and more to go. I also thank Ms McGrath for coming before the committee today. There will be questions...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Health: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Nov 2019)

Colette Kelleher: I thank Ms McArdle. I call on Dr. Favier, president of the Irish College of General Practitioners, ICGP, to make her opening statement.

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Health: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Nov 2019)

Colette Kelleher: I thank Dr. Favier for her opening statement. It is encouraging to hear from her statement that the health differences between Travellers and the general population are avoidable if we take the right steps. I call Senator Lynn Ruane, who will be followed by Deputies Corcoran-Kennedy and Joan Collins.

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Health: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Nov 2019)

Colette Kelleher: I will call the representatives of the HSE in the order in which questions were asked of them. If the witnesses from the ICGP wish to respond, they may come in as well. I will also give Ms O'Donoghue and Ms McGrath an opportunity to answer the questions put to them by Senator Ruane.

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Health: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Nov 2019)

Colette Kelleher: I have a question on budgets-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Health: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Nov 2019)

Colette Kelleher: I ask Ms McArdle to speak about budgets.