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Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Employment: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Dec 2019)

Colette Kelleher: Not just schemes or short term.

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Employment: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Dec 2019)

Colette Kelleher: If we had the whole-of-Government approach that Deputy Corcoran Kennedy referred to, every workplace, not only Traveller NGOs, would be safe places. Are there any other comments?

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Employment: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Dec 2019)

Colette Kelleher: Those would be important parts of any employment strategy. Does anybody else wish to speak or will we move on?

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Employment: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Dec 2019)

Colette Kelleher: Diversity in the room.

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Employment: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Dec 2019)

Colette Kelleher: Because they do not often live to the age of pension.

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Employment: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Dec 2019)

Colette Kelleher: I think that merits a response in itself and then we will go to Senator Warfield's questions. What does affirmative action look like and does it work?

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Employment: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Dec 2019)

Colette Kelleher: I thank the delegation for giving us plenty of questions. Mr. Friel wishes to comment and Senator Warfield has a question. I remind everyone that our next session is with Solas, and we will have IBEC, ICTU, Enterprise Ireland and Mr. Gavin Hennessy from Irish Life. We are also trying to persuade the ESRI to come here.

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Employment: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Dec 2019)

Colette Kelleher: I hate to cut anyone short because everything is important and more but it is important also that Senator Warfield gets to ask his questions now.

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Employment: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Dec 2019)

Colette Kelleher: Is the Senator coming to his questions?

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Employment: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Dec 2019)

Colette Kelleher: It is impossible to sum up. Mr. Joyce gave us the idea of Travellers as the social entrepreneurs of Ireland. That is the history and tradition. He also spoke about Travellers removing themselves from the chains of poverty. Why would any community or group of people not want to do that? The 80% unemployment rate is a national disgrace. Mr. Friel echoed that comment. Despite that...

Seanad: Housing (Regulation of Approved Housing Bodies) Bill 2019: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Dec 2019)

Colette Kelleher: I move amendment No. 1: In page 19, line 29, after “statement,” to insert “engage in consultation with relevant sector bodies, and”. I listened to the Minister's arguments on the previous Stage of the Bill. I am content to withdraw this amendment, but I would like some reassurances that the Minister will issue guidance and direction to the new regulator,...

Seanad: Housing (Regulation of Approved Housing Bodies) Bill 2019: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Dec 2019)

Colette Kelleher: I move amendment No. 2: In page 42, line 12, to delete “an interim report” and substitute “a report”. I listened to the Minister's comments during the previous Stage of this Bill, where he clarified the purpose of an interim report. I am satisfied as to the intent of the report, provided it is not used as an opportunity to name and shame an approved housing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland: Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (12 Dec 2019)

Colette Kelleher: I thank the Minister and his officials. I note that, in his address, the Minister challenges people who say that nothing is being done. People know that work is being done. The challenge relates to whether enough is being done. Are the right actions being taken and the right policy implemented? I worked for Cork Simon Community for eight years. I was recently in touch with the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland: Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (12 Dec 2019)

Colette Kelleher: They are not good enough.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland: Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (12 Dec 2019)

Colette Kelleher: They are not homes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland: Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (12 Dec 2019)

Colette Kelleher: Is this for hubs?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland: Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (12 Dec 2019)

Colette Kelleher: We should not have hubs in the first place, though. While they are better than-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland: Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (12 Dec 2019)

Colette Kelleher: Is that not the nub of the failure?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Rebuilding Ireland: Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (12 Dec 2019)

Colette Kelleher: It is a failure of the past and the present.

Seanad: Housing (Regulation of Approved Housing Bodies) Bill 2019: Second Stage (10 Dec 2019)

Colette Kelleher: I echo Senator Coffey's acknowledgement of Simon Brooke's work regarding approved housing bodies and the housing sector in general. Simon was a friend and I send condolences to his family on his untimely passing. I broadly welcome this Bill, which introduces the regulation of approved housing bodies. I speak as a current member of the Joint Committee on Housing, Planning and Local...