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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: Does Mr. O'Mahony think that should come back into the frame?

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: Should a greater emphasis on the common good be included in the framing legislation for the LDA?

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: It is a matter of building in the technology.

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: They have no security of tenure.

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: I thank Mr. Benson very much.

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: I thank Mr. O'Neill very much.

Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (15 Oct 2019)

Colette Kelleher: I second the amendment.

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

Colette Kelleher: I welcome members and viewers who may be watching this meeting on Oireachtas TV to this meeting of the Joint Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community. I welcome our visitors in the Gallery who have come to watch proceedings in person. The purpose of today's meeting is to continue deliberations on the topic of Traveller mental health. We will meet the Minister of State,...

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

Colette Kelleher: I thank the Minister of State and call on Senator Freeman to make her opening statement.

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

Colette Kelleher: I thank Senator Freeman for her contribution.

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

Colette Kelleher: I note the Senator's passion. We also need to note the recommendations of the Joint Committee on Future of Mental Health Care report that relate specifically to Travellers in our deliberations.

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

Colette Kelleher: Deputy Joan Collins has raised some very specific questions to which I now invite the Minister of State to respond.

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

Colette Kelleher: Is Deputy Joan Collins happy that her questions have been answered?

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

Colette Kelleher: I thank the Deputy. Does Senator Warfield have any questions?

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

Colette Kelleher: The Minister of State seems to accept that there is a crisis among Travellers around mental health and he does not dispute the figures, prevalence and scale, which is important. The all-Ireland Traveller health study 2010 is out of date although we still rely on it. The Irish Traveller Movement has estimated that there have been 30 deaths to the end of August. On what data does the...

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

Colette Kelleher: How much of the extra €39 billion might Travellers expect to see devoted to services, both mainstream and specialised? I heard what you said about mainstream services but there is a case for having both mainstream and specialised. We need to think in binary terms about services, particularly when issues have been raised time and again about access to culturally appropriate services....

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

Colette Kelleher: I am sorry, it is €39 million, not €39 billion.

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

Colette Kelleher: The committee will produce its interim report shortly. It would be timely, as the Minister of State said, to feed that into the discussions on the allocations of the €39 million. Clearly there is a crisis, and this is borne out in all the evidence the committee has heard, and we have only scratched the surface in terms of the numbers of people we have been able to hear from directly...

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

Colette Kelleher: That would be welcome. A comment was made by Mr. Thomas McCann, who is in the Gallery, which Ms Minnie Connors echoed, about the indifference of the State to the plight of people in this level of crisis. Does the Minister of State wish to comment on that indifference, which would seem to be a theme that runs through many of the submissions we have received?

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

Colette Kelleher: The indifference of the State to the crisis in mental health among the Traveller community.