Results 361-380 of 1,013 for speaker:Colette Kelleher
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of Land Development Agency Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2019)
Colette Kelleher: The market has failed to provide homes for our population. There are 10,000 homeless people, including 3,700 children. We signed off on a report this morning on family and child homelessness, which shows the impact on those children today and for their futures. The LDA proposal is a response to that failure. It is a significant transfer and giveaway, as a Deputy said, of €1.2...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of Land Development Agency Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2019)
Colette Kelleher: Yes.
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2019: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (9 Oct 2019)
Colette Kelleher: I second the amendment.
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2019: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (9 Oct 2019)
Colette Kelleher: I second the amendment.
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2019: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (9 Oct 2019)
Colette Kelleher: I second the amendment.
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2019: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (9 Oct 2019)
Colette Kelleher: I second the amendment.
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2019: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (9 Oct 2019)
Colette Kelleher: I second the amendment.
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2019: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (9 Oct 2019)
Colette Kelleher: I second the amendment.
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2019: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (9 Oct 2019)
Colette Kelleher: I second the amendment.
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2019: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (9 Oct 2019)
Colette Kelleher: I second the amendment.
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2019: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (9 Oct 2019)
Colette Kelleher: I second the amendment.
- Seanad: Social Welfare Bill 2019: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (9 Oct 2019)
Colette Kelleher: I second the amendment.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Business of Joint Committee (8 Oct 2019)
Colette Kelleher: We have a quorum and will commence in public session. I propose we now go into private session to deal with some housekeeping matters.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Business of Joint Committee (8 Oct 2019)
Colette Kelleher: The joint committee went into private session at 11.05 a.m. and resumed in public session at 11.10 a.m.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Oct 2019)
Colette Kelleher: I welcome members and viewers who may be watching our proceedings on Oireachtas TV to this meeting of the Joint Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community. The purpose of today's meeting is to continue our deliberations on the topic of Traveller mental health. We will meet representatives of the Travelling Counselling Service, West Limerick Primary Health Care Project, Offaly...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Oct 2019)
Colette Kelleher: There will be questions later but we will listen to all the opening statements first.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Oct 2019)
Colette Kelleher: I thank Ms Keating. The Traveller Culture and History in Education Bill will be back in the Seanad next Wednesday and we have high hopes that it will be passed. I call on Ms McDonagh to make her opening statement.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Oct 2019)
Colette Kelleher: I thank Ms McDonagh. We will return to some of the very difficult issues, but there are answers here if we choose to have them. I invite Ms Kelly to make her opening statement.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Oct 2019)
Colette Kelleher: I thank Ms Kelly. There is a lot of food for thought in what she has said. The Minister, accompanied by officials from the Department of Health and the HSE, will come before the committee next week. We will be able to ask plenty of questions based on what Ms Kelly has said. I invite the representatives of Exchange House Ireland National Traveller Service to address the committee.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Oct 2019)
Colette Kelleher: I thank Ms Carnicer for her presentation. There were many thought provoking comments, in particular the comment that suicide is not a mental illness but an attempt to create a life without intense emotional pain, and all of the other factors that become the social determinants of mental ill health and suicide attempts. A plea was made regarding how the State and Government can watch what is...