Results 1-18 of 18 for drugs speaker:Eileen Flynn

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Give Travellers the Floor: Discussion (18 Apr 2024)

Eileen Flynn: ...in our community dying through suicide. We are not talking about addiction. We are not talking about the young Traveller men in their early 30s who are like the walking dead, to quote Mags Casey from a conference we had two days ago. There is an epidemic of drugs and alcohol addiction within our community and we cannot stop it by ourselves. We need a mental health strategy that will...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Eileen Flynn: ...and for Travellers to be members of the Garda. We do not always have to be the ones who are in the prisons. The opportunities are just not there. My colleague Senator Ruane is doing a lot of work in the area of legalising drugs, for instance, cannabis, for personal use. Where a settled person might get a warning if they had something in their pocket, a member of the Traveller community...

Seanad: Recent Violence in Dublin City Centre: Motion (29 Nov 2023)

Eileen Flynn: ...2023 and what happened last Thursday could have happened anywhere, at any of our children's crèches. Some people took that for granted. I have heard one or two Senators calling those who were involved drug addicts and referring to their actions as thuggery. There were so many people, along with these far-right activists or whatever they like to call themselves. I like to say of...

Seanad: Road Safety: Statements (27 Sep 2023)

Eileen Flynn: ...not believe that to be the case, and we need to have supports in place. People need to be supported to get their full licence and it is not just questions around road safety. Questions and education about drug-driving and drink-driving should also form part of the testing. As for investing in the RSA, it takes months and months to get a test and that is also part of road safety because...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Jul 2023)

Eileen Flynn: ...it would work with the Traveller community. What the Government did, unfortunately, was to throw money at it but have no implementation, with very little money going to Traveller mental health. Drug and alcohol use within the Traveller community has gone through the roof. We really need wraparound mental health supports for the Traveller community. It is Traveller Pride Week and if this...

Seanad: Citizens Assembly on Drugs Use: Motion (23 Feb 2023)

Eileen Flynn: ...the Senator's agenda. I also thank our staff today for the amendments. That needs to be acknowledged. This assembly will give an opportunity to people to be able to look at the failed policy on drugs that we have had in our country. We have seen the rise of drugs since the policy. We have seen the rise of drug deaths since the policy. Every day, two people on this island die by...

Seanad: Citizens Assembly on Drugs Use: Motion (23 Feb 2023)

Eileen Flynn: I move amendment No. 3: In the lead-in to the motion, line 5, after “State could make to significantly” to insert “improve its response to drugs use and abuse, to improve outcomes in relation to drugs use and abuse, to”.

Seanad: Citizens Assembly on Drugs Use: Motion (23 Feb 2023)

Eileen Flynn: I move amendment No. 5: In the lead-in to the motion, line 6, after “harmful impacts of illicit drugs” to insert “and the criminalisation of drugs”.

Seanad: Citizens Assembly on Drugs Use: Motion (23 Feb 2023)

Eileen Flynn: I move amendment No. 7: After the second bullet point, to insert the following: “- the impacts of criminalisation of drugs use and possession, and convictions for drugs use and possession, on individuals, families, communities and wider society;”.

Seanad: Citizens Assembly on Drugs Use: Motion (23 Feb 2023)

Eileen Flynn: I move amendment No. 8: After the second bullet point, to insert the following: “- the potential for, and prevalence of, safe, social, recreational drugs use by individuals;”.

Seanad: Citizens Assembly on Drugs Use: Motion (23 Feb 2023)

Eileen Flynn: I move amendment No. 9: After the third bullet point, to insert the following: “- the potential benefits of promoting a harm-reduction approach to drugs policy, including through the provision of certain supports, including, inter alia, safe-injection and safe-consumption facilities, and medication-assisted treatments for drug addiction;”

Seanad: Citizens Assembly on Drugs Use: Motion (23 Feb 2023)

Eileen Flynn: I move amendment No. 10: After the third bullet point, to insert the following: “- the opportunities to improve the number and diversity of wraparound supports available to individuals who use drugs, including, inter alia, detox and aftercare facilities, and other supports which can assist individuals in their recovery from drug addiction;”.

Seanad: Citizens Assembly on Drugs Use: Motion (23 Feb 2023)

Eileen Flynn: I move amendment No. 11: After the fourth bullet point, to insert the following: “- the perspectives of the general public, representative groups, advocacy groups, experts and policy makers on drugs use and its impacts;”.

Seanad: Citizens Assembly on Drugs Use: Motion (23 Feb 2023)

Eileen Flynn: I move amendment No. 13: To delete the seventh bullet point and substitute the following: “- international best practice and practical case studies in relation to regulation of supply of drugs, and the impact of relevant legislative, policy and operational responses; - international best practice and practical case studies in relation to increasing resilience, health and...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Feb 2023)

Eileen Flynn: ..., if a person steps outside that box they are evicted with four children onto the street with nowhere to go. That person then was moved with four children to another accommodation where there was drug use and social activities going on in the place where she and her four children were placed. There are many conversations to be had on how to keep women and children safe in hotels so that...

Seanad: Poverty and Social Exclusion: Motion (19 Oct 2022)

Eileen Flynn: .... I go into Labre Park and I see it daily within my own community. I see moneylenders and people getting themselves into debt. In 2015, I met this incredible individual who was ten years homeless and was on drugs. Imagine being homeless for ten years, being on drugs and on the streets of Dublin city. That person today has their own apartment. You can turn your life around with the...

Seanad: Mental Health and Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Statements (24 Feb 2022)

Eileen Flynn: ...mental health and the inequality that young people from disadvantaged communities experience in the mental health system. Yesterday my colleague, Senator Lynn Ruane, brought forward a motion on a drugs citizens' assembly but, unfortunately, it was voted down in this House. I am standing here even more disheartened as a result. Although we are hearing good and positive comments, we...

Seanad: Citizens' Assemblies: Motion (23 Feb 2022)

Eileen Flynn: I do not have a speech prepared for this discussion. Listening to Senator Ruane, I thought of some of the friends I went to school with who have died from taking drugs and drug addiction. I also think of some young Traveller men. The high rate of suicide within the Traveller community is also caused by drug addiction. We have a homelessness crisis and Travellers are overrepresented in the...