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Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Health: Discussion (22 Oct 2019)

Colette Kelleher: I wish to bring in Ms Quirke. I am anxious to bring in two other members who have not asked questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Health: Discussion (22 Oct 2019)

Colette Kelleher: That was nine years ago.

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Health: Discussion (22 Oct 2019)

Colette Kelleher: This is a good moment to bring in Mr. Walsh to respond to the points.

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Health: Discussion (22 Oct 2019)

Colette Kelleher: The HSE will come to the next module, so that would be a good question to put to it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Health: Discussion (22 Oct 2019)

Colette Kelleher: To be fair, given that the crisis in health is so great and so fundamental, talking about things such as the Healthy Ireland type initiatives is like talking to people with cancer about getting fit. It is useful but it is not really where we are at. I do not think we should be talking about health in that way.

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Health: Discussion (22 Oct 2019)

Colette Kelleher: That is a good way of doing an ethnic identifier.

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Health: Discussion (22 Oct 2019)

Colette Kelleher: The important thing is the human rights protection framework for the use of ethnic identifiers, and it is important in making sure there is a proper recognition of the numbers of people who have identified as Travellers because there can be an underestimation. Mr. Jim Walsh will speak next and then Deputy Collins, who is very patient.

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Health: Discussion (22 Oct 2019)

Colette Kelleher: Many of us around the table have a big interest in that, but particularly Senator Ruane.

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Health: Discussion (22 Oct 2019)

Colette Kelleher: That was with regard to the coroner and deaths rather than the ethnic identifiers.

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Health: Discussion (22 Oct 2019)

Colette Kelleher: That is something the representatives would like the committee to recommend.

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Health: Discussion (22 Oct 2019)

Colette Kelleher: It goes beyond involvement. People are talking about more than that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Health: Discussion (22 Oct 2019)

Colette Kelleher: We could also say control and direction.

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Health: Discussion (22 Oct 2019)

Colette Kelleher: Ms Joyce has made her clarification.

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Health: Discussion (22 Oct 2019)

Colette Kelleher: That is why we will be returning to this topic on 5 November. We will have the HSE in and will be asking some hard questions of it. I will ask the committee members if we can invite a Traveller health co-ordinator, Ms Deirdre O'Reilly, whose submission arrived late, to participate. I presume that is okay. It is impossible to sum up this issue. It is about people's lives, including...

Seanad: Traveller Culture and History in Education Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (16 Oct 2019)

Colette Kelleher: I had prepared to speak amendment by amendment, but I will take them all together. I will, therefore, be speaking for a while. I thank the Minister for coming to the House and for his engagement, and for the engagement by the previous Minister, Deputy Richard Bruton, on the Traveller Culture and History in Education Bill 2018. At a briefing earlier we heard that it is of similar...

Seanad: Traveller Culture and History in Education Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (16 Oct 2019)

Colette Kelleher: I do, but I will keep it brief. I am disappointed. I would have liked for us to be closer today, but I feel we have the basis for further conversation. We can do more work when this Bill goes to the Dáil. I thank Oein de Bhairdúin who guided me through this Bill and so much more. I also thank the members of the Traveller advisory group, which informed the audit, the Irish...

Seanad: Children's Digital Protection Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2019)

Colette Kelleher: I speak on behalf of my colleague, Senator Higgins.She, along with Senator Ruane and I, welcomes the spirit and intent of the Bill. It is important that we are moving further towards legislating for technology and online content. As we know and the Minister and Senator Craughwell recognised, we cannot rely on self-regulation by tech companies. It simply does not give sufficient protection...

Seanad: Children's Digital Protection Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2019)

Colette Kelleher: I echo the comments made by Senator Noone. Harsh words are not acceptable in any setting, whether delivered to one's face, online or in any other way. We are coarsening our discourse and making life far more difficult for people. I again commend Senators Freeman and Craughwell on bringing forward the legislation. I have a small concern on the implementation of the Bill and how it will fit...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Development Agency Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Oct 2019)

Colette Kelleher: These exchanges have been very illuminating and confirmed many key issues about which committee members have been concerned and with which they have been grappling. Mr. O'Mahony has stated we must not let the LDA lose the run of itself and that the Bill needs to constrain it. However, we also must make sure we do not lose the run of ourselves. In the complexity surrounding the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Development Agency Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Oct 2019)

Colette Kelleher: In emergency accommodation. More people are homeless actually.