Results 61-80 of 1,013 for speaker:Colette Kelleher
- Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Employment: Discussion (10 Dec 2019)
Colette Kelleher: Teachers are also coming through the system.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Employment: Discussion (10 Dec 2019)
Colette Kelleher: I am glad Ms Sherlock mentioned Oein. He was a paid intern who worked with me and helped me do the work I do in this House.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Employment: Discussion (10 Dec 2019)
Colette Kelleher: I call Deputy O'Loughlin.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Employment: Discussion (10 Dec 2019)
Colette Kelleher: Deputy O'Loughlin's questions were directed to Mr. Reilly, Ms Sherlock and Mr. O'Leary.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Employment: Discussion (10 Dec 2019)
Colette Kelleher: It was disappointing that the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission would not take it up because of the small numbers. Perhaps we will bring the IHREC before the committee and ask it the question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Employment: Discussion (10 Dec 2019)
Colette Kelleher: I thank Mr. Hogan. Those were stark words.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Employment: Discussion (10 Dec 2019)
Colette Kelleher: Absolutely. I thank our guests for bringing us back to that point.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Employment: Discussion (10 Dec 2019)
Colette Kelleher: I thank Mr. Power. Deputy Joan Collins has been patient.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Employment: Discussion (10 Dec 2019)
Colette Kelleher: The national Traveller and Roma inclusion strategy committee is the nearest thing. Does Mr. O'Leary chair a sub-committee of that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Employment: Discussion (10 Dec 2019)
Colette Kelleher: How is the sub-committee tracking to the Pathways to Work review that is under way?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Employment: Discussion (10 Dec 2019)
Colette Kelleher: Employment is a justice matter but it is surely also relevant to the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection. Who is responsible for the Pathways to Work strategy?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Employment: Discussion (10 Dec 2019)
Colette Kelleher: It is something we could certainly consider in our recommendations.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Employment: Discussion (10 Dec 2019)
Colette Kelleher: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Employment: Discussion (10 Dec 2019)
Colette Kelleher: I thank the members and witnesses. We have spent a really interesting couple of hours discussing this matter and we will spend more time discussing three more modules. The 80% unemployment rate among Travellers is beyond shocking. When one says it is shocking that almost sounds banal and trivialises this issue. We have no choice but not to leave Travellers where they are, as Mr. Reilly so...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Report of the Expert Group on Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (5 Dec 2019)
Colette Kelleher: The Minister of State and his colleagues are very welcome to give us this update. I acknowledge David Joyce, Professor Michelle Norris and Conor Norton, but I really want to acknowledge the Minister of State because he has taken up this with great seriousness and sincerity. We all see that and recognise it. I also welcome the additional moneys being allocated to Traveller accommodation. ...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Report of the Expert Group on Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (5 Dec 2019)
Colette Kelleher: Is that a "Yes"? Have all the recommendations been accepted?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Report of the Expert Group on Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (5 Dec 2019)
Colette Kelleher: That is a key recommendation.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Report of the Expert Group on Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (5 Dec 2019)
Colette Kelleher: Will the Minister of State share the observations which have been made by the Department of Justice and Equality?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Report of the Expert Group on Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (5 Dec 2019)
Colette Kelleher: What about the evolution of that body into the authority?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Report of the Expert Group on Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (5 Dec 2019)
Colette Kelleher: It has been overcome in other places-----