Results 1-20 of 28 for cork speaker:Eileen Flynn

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Education Policy: Department of Education (11 Apr 2024)

Eileen Flynn: ...Quilligan, was doing a placement there. She was saying to me she had never seen so much poverty or racism when it comes to Traveller children within the education system. She also came across cases in Cork where Traveller students aged 16 and 17 were having colouring-in for their homework. Again, 31% of Traveller children go on to complete the leaving certificate. What kind of Ireland...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Eileen Flynn: ...say that St. Margaret's is worse. To see children having to live in these conditions in Ireland in 2024 is absolutely appalling. There is so much more I believe local authorities can do, including in Galway and Cork. There is so much more our State and our Government can do. As Deputy Buckley said, we want to help but we also want answers and, for us as a committee, that...

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

Eileen Flynn: I thank Mr. Gilligan. I am sure there will be time for Ms Corcoran and Mr. Walsh to contribute as well. I thank Mayo County Council for its presentation. We will now move on to Cork City Council. Members visited Spring Lane on 12 November 2021. One of the purposes of having Cork City Council before the committee was to get an update on Spring Lane. I invite Mr. Geaney from Cork City...

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

Eileen Flynn: ...has been given for stage 2, which the committee welcomes. As I do not want to continue talking, I will hand over to the members to ask any questions they may have for Mayo County Council and Cork City Council. I call Deputy Buckley.

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

Eileen Flynn: Yes. We will then move to Cork City Council to respond to the Deputy, after which we have to move on to somebody else because of the time.

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

Eileen Flynn: ...to break down barriers between Travellers and the settled community? I also am interested to hear of the relationships between Mayo County Council and the Mayo Travellers organisation and between Cork City Council and the Cork Traveller visibility organisation. As Deputy Ó Cuív stated earlier, everyone has a part to play and the Traveller organisations have a part to play in...

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

Eileen Flynn: ...to. I thank the witnesses for coming before the committee today. The evidence and submissions the witnesses provided today are useful and helpful. It is great news for the community of Cork that stage 2 of redevelopment has been funded. I thank Cork City Council for that. I thank both Cork City Council and Mayo County Council for all the work they are doing at a local level with the...

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

Eileen Flynn: ...meeting is our 14th, since the committee was set up, looking at accommodation and trying to achieve small and doable goals as a committee. We have done a lot of work. We have invited in Cena, the Cork Traveller Visibility Group, the Irish Traveller Movement, National Traveller MABS and National Traveller Women's Forum. We have also invited in Pavee Point and other local authorities....

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

Eileen Flynn: ...is important we have it on the record. I am pleased to inform you that following an examination of the Stage 2 application for the redevelopment my Department recently granted Stage 2 approval to Cork City Council for a budget [...] of €17.9m. I thank the Minister of State for working with the committee and allocating that funding. Before passing over to members, I wanted them...

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

Eileen Flynn: ...often left behind is the Roma community. It is a question that has only occurred to me now. It will be my last question to the witnesses here today. Do the witnesses from Mayo County Council and Cork City Council have a figure for how many Roma people are in their communities? Are the councils supporting the Roma community in respect of accommodation?

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2023)

Eileen Flynn: ...Travellers want, pointing out that the answers are there and asking how we can implement them. We are trying our best to hold local authorities to account. One of our reasons for inviting in the Cork Traveller Visibility Group and the National Traveller Women's Forum is that we want to hear the problems, even though we already know them, in order that we can bring back the council and...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2023)

Eileen Flynn: ...we are yet to get the shower that we were promised. That is just a little insight into the kind of waiting. It is about being fit for purpose. I can talk on behalf of Labre Park but it is no different in Cork. It is a lot of money for equipment and work that, in my opinion, is not fit for purpose. The heating is absolutely appalling. We had a Minister of State out in Labre Park. He...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2023)

Eileen Flynn: ...community as a whole. Accommodation is everything. Accommodation is your education, health, well-being, etc. I have a few remarks and questions. What really strikes me about Spring Lane and Cork is the No End in Sight report. That got absolutely amazing coverage all over the media. It spoke about the poor Traveller children and how to proceed, but what about the recommendations?...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2023)

Eileen Flynn: .... I have been waiting three months for that meeting around the reduced timetables for Travellers in school to take place. There are many burning issues for which the answers are already there. Cork Traveller Visibility Group has worked for decades on the answers, and so too has the National Traveller Women's Forum, Pavee Point and ITM. The list of organisations is as long as your...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation (30 Nov 2023)

Eileen Flynn: ...is what we are missing, and acting on those recommendations. I thank our guests so much for today. Our next meeting will be on 7 December. We will have the Traveller Disability Group from Cork and the National Traveller Women's Forum next Thursday.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation (30 Nov 2023)

Eileen Flynn: ...Traveller accommodation. We are delighted to have the Irish Traveller Movement here this morning to give us a presentation on where we are with Traveller accommodation. Between now and Christmas, Cork City Council, Dublin City Council, Galway County Council and Mayo County Council will appear before the committee. Other Traveller organisations will also come before the committee in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Consent Programmes in Irish Education: Discussion (7 Nov 2023)

Eileen Flynn: ...lately from men saying not to be educating their children around sex education. This is what they are saying. They want to take that away from our children. We have seen it with the libraries in Cork etc. How do we embed active consent in our education system and normalise it? How do we make it part of Ireland's culture? We are no longer that little traditional Catholic country any...

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by An Taoiseach (28 Sep 2023)

Eileen Flynn: ...visit. I would love him to take up that invitation to come onto the site with me to see how children on halting sites still have to live in Ireland in 2023. Just yesterday saw the report from Cork where segregation of the Traveller community is still happening. This is something that happened in the 1960s and 1970s whereby Travellers were put into one room to be taught in our education...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Decongregation of Mental Health Settings: Mental Health Commission (8 Dec 2022)

Eileen Flynn: ...failed for the past year and half. The Owenacurra Centre was closed in June 2021. The residents fought very hard to get mental health supports when the centre was closed down. They were moved to Cork, which is far from home. People with disabilities have the right to live an independent life. The focus of this committee is the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities,...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Dec 2022)

Eileen Flynn: ...we have been through as a community, it is worth it. I would like the Minister to rule out the money message. Money is being drawn down in further education and this morning I was speaking to a Cork disability group that wondered where the support was to draw down some of that higher education funding. There is an awful lot of hatred and discrimination on our streets at present. It is...