Results 221-240 of 1,013 for speaker:Colette Kelleher
- Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Health: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Nov 2019)
Colette Kelleher: Could that time be better spent on other matters?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Health: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Nov 2019)
Colette Kelleher: It would seem to be wasting valuable GP time as well. There is merit in examining this issue, in particular, and drilling down because of the bureaucracy but also the interface with the Traveller healthcare project workers as well. That is a specific issue.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Health: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Nov 2019)
Colette Kelleher: It sounds like there is much good practice out there. It seems to have been upped in scale. We kind of know the answers but it is the scale of the response that needs to be looked at.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Health: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Nov 2019)
Colette Kelleher: I ask the witnesses to let us know if there is a price tag associated with any of those because we can include those in our deliberations.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Health: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Nov 2019)
Colette Kelleher: We would be very happy if Ms De Brun wrote to us as a committee with those proposals because we want to come up with concrete proposals and ideas.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Health: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Nov 2019)
Colette Kelleher: It is a good model but it needs to be scaled up.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Health: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Nov 2019)
Colette Kelleher: There are also issues with dual diagnosis.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Health: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Nov 2019)
Colette Kelleher: We are coming to the end, but I have a few questions. One question, which is for the Irish College of General Practitioners and the HSE, in particular, is whether you think there is prejudice among HSE staff and GPs towards Travellers. What is your honest opinion on that? What happens when that arises? Are the appropriate measures, such as disciplinary action and so on, followed through?...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Health: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Nov 2019)
Colette Kelleher: Has anyone ever been sacked because he or sh was racist?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Health: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Nov 2019)
Colette Kelleher: You think that is the way. What about the health action plan? When will health be at the same level?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Health: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Nov 2019)
Colette Kelleher: You have been around the block a long time but in terms of the work, and I am not being in any way ageist, when do you think Traveller health and that of the general population will be comparable?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Health: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Nov 2019)
Colette Kelleher: Thank you very much.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Health: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Nov 2019)
Colette Kelleher: Have you been consulted about this?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Health: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Nov 2019)
Colette Kelleher: Thank you very much.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Health: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Nov 2019)
Colette Kelleher: What is your impression to date in terms of that partnership?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Health: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Nov 2019)
Colette Kelleher: Okay. Dr. Favier said she thought it might be 25 years. How does that sound from your point of view?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Health: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Nov 2019)
Colette Kelleher: There are practical things we can do.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Health: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Nov 2019)
Colette Kelleher: That was echoed throughout the presentations. While the facts and figures are stark, there were also very practical ideas and proposals put forward from both sides today, and we would hope to capture that in the report. Thank you so much for your time this morning. I hope you feel it was well spent. We intend it to be and to act on it in big and small ways.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Health: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Nov 2019)
Colette Kelleher: We will give the last word to Deputy Ó Cuív; I find it is wise to do that. I thank the Deputy. The committee will invite representatives of the HSE and Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection back before the committee under the heading of a different module to talk about the whole issue of medical cards, which came up frequently here and seems to be a practical...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing (Regulation of Approved Housing Bodies) Bill 2019: Discussion (24 Oct 2019)
Colette Kelleher: My questions are about the standard setting function that is proposed and some other issues. I was on the board of the Irish Council for Social Housing, ICSH, for many years, and a very large number of its membership and approved housing bodies are very small-scale housing providers. They are local providers of social housing responding very flexibly to local need, for example, to older...