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Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)

Denise Mitchell: My first question is for the representatives from Cork. I welcome that the funding for Spring Lane is available. It is terrible that it has taken this long to get it. I was on the previous committee along with Deputy Collins. We visited Spring Lane and to say we were shocked at the conditions people were living in there is an understatement. If everything goes to plan, when will the...

Council Development Levies: Motion [Private Members] (1 Feb 2023)

Denise Mitchell: ...Minister in May last year, there was €287 million in uncollected development levies owed to councils at the end of 2020. The four local authorities in Dublin alone were owed €150 million while Cork council and Kildare County Council were owed €13 million, respectively. I think we will all agree that these are significant sums. They would go a long way to support...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (24 Nov 2022)

Denise Mitchell: ...of which notice has been given under Standing Order 37 and the name of the Member in each case: Deputies Thomas Gould and Mick Barry - to discuss the loss of jobs at the Butcher's Block in Cork. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin - to discuss the proposed reconfiguration of primary schools in Raheny. Deputy Dessie Ellis - to discuss incorporating the suitability test into the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Traveller Accommodation (17 Nov 2022)

Denise Mitchell: The Ombudsman for Children launched a report in May 2021 detailing the very serious concerns for residents in Spring Lane, Cork. It found that the living conditions were deplorable. The ombudsman’s report had ten recommendations, with 17 actions which needed to be taken. Last November, Deputies Ellis, Joan Collins and I visited the site as part of the committee and, to be upfront,...

Committee Report on Key Issues Affecting the Traveller Community: Statements (3 Mar 2022)

Denise Mitchell: ..., as well as the Vice Chairman, Deputy Ó Cuív, and the staff of the committee for the time and effort they put into it. I also wish to thank the members of the Travelling community in Dublin, Cork and Galway for welcoming us into their communities and homes and being so generous with their time. I welcome our visitors in the Public Gallery. This report contains 84...

Traveller Accommodation: Statements (3 Jun 2021)

Denise Mitchell: ...must become solely responsible for delivering Traveller accommodation or we need a State body to be given the power. The recent report from the Ombudsman for Children's Office, which found that Cork City Council was violating the rights of Traveller children, is shocking. The report was scathing of the failures of that council. The council left children in what were described as filthy,...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Domestic Violence (28 Mar 2019)

Denise Mitchell: ...to get answers as to how full these centres are. This information is very important to us to understand the demand that exists. In responses I received recently to questions, I was told Cork as a whole has only five domestic violence refuge spaces. That is incredible. There are other counties such as Carlow, Cavan, Laois, Leitrim, Monaghan, Offaly and Roscommon where there are no...

Fourth Interim Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (7 Feb 2019)

Denise Mitchell: ...former Sean Ross Abbey in recent weeks and that further investigations may be carried out, depending on the findings. Will similar surveys be conducted at the former Bessborough mother and baby home in Cork? Not only was it run by the same religious order as the Sean Ross Abbey but the death register shows that 470 children and ten women died there between 1934 and 1953. The religious...