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

Eileen Flynn: ...driving the policies for equality for Travellers in this country. However, again, it is the actions. The actions do not match and there is nobody to hold to account. We have Ministers in the Lower House of Leinster House. These are people who got in here off the back of land being too valuable for the Travellers. One poster said, “We are not going to build a halting site for...

Seanad: EU Migration: Motion [Private Members] (27 Jun 2023)

Eileen Flynn: ...House. In recent days, we have seen what multinational search and rescue can look like.We have also seen what happens to ships that are reported to be in grave danger and there is no response. Ireland has been involved in search and rescue missions in the southern Mediterranean. The EU withdrew those services in 2019, a measure for which Fine Gael's MEPs voted. However, it is clear...

Seanad: Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2022)

Eileen Flynn: ..., to delete “and” and substitute “or”. I thank the Minister for being in the House today. We are sorry about the little hiccup. Amendment No. 1 amends the meaning of “principal burial land” in section 2 of the Bill. As drafted, there are two criteria. A person must have died while a resident and must have been buried in a "manifestly...

Seanad: Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2022)

Eileen Flynn: I move amendment No. 11: In page 15, to delete lines 1 to 3 and substitute the following: “(b) works to be conducted on the land by the Director in the performance of his or her functions would not impinge on any dwelling on the land in such a way as to cause structural damage or any damage to the integrity of the dwelling, and”.

Seanad: Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2022)

Eileen Flynn: I will speak to it. Amendment No. 11 suggests another way we can balance the need to respect people’s homes and land with the need to carry out the very important work under this Bill.

Seanad: Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2022)

Eileen Flynn: ..., are identified in respect of a site which meets the criteria outlined in subsection (3), the Government shall make every effort to resolve difficulties and thoroughly examine burials on the land, before it is determined that memorialisation of the burials on the land, without further intervention, is more appropriate.”.

Seanad: Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2022)

Eileen Flynn: ...of an order under section 7(1), the Government shall consider whether the proposed intervention is proportionate having regard to the need to respect the views of the relatives of persons buried in the land, and to consider those of persons whose dwellings adjoin the land.”.

Seanad: Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2022)

Eileen Flynn: I move amendment No. 30: In page 18, between lines 28 and 29, to insert the following: “(iii) arrange for the forensic excavation and recovery of human remains buried on principal burial land, where death may have occurred in a violent or unnatural manner, or suddenly and from unknown causes,”. I will withdraw this amendment but will come back on Report Stage.

Seanad: Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Committee Stage (28 Jun 2022)

Eileen Flynn: I move amendment No. 32: In page 18, line 36, after “land” to insert “in consultation with eligible family members, where possible and practicable”. Given the injustice and indignity of many of the burials concerned, while it was not possible in every context, we have a lot of empathy with the victims' families and friends. It is important that we do listen to...

Seanad: National Climate and Air Roadmap for the Agriculture Sector: Statements (22 Feb 2021)

Eileen Flynn: ...cost-effective traditional measures. At the annual general meeting of the Irish Natura and Hill Farmers Association in November, its president, Colm O'Donnell, was rightly concerned about how EU land designation might unfairly impact on hill farming, including in Donegal. Mr. O'Donnell made it clear that for any environmental scheme related to farming to be successful, the new Common...

Seanad: Traveller Accommodation: Statements (17 Nov 2020)

Eileen Flynn: ...speak on accommodation issues that are impacting on the Traveller community. Many local authorities have failed to deliver appropriate cultural accommodation for the Traveller community. In Ireland we have our own humanitarian crisis, that is, the living conditions of the Traveller community in 21st century Ireland. Now is the time for action. The lack of appropriate accommodation and...