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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Inadequate Personal Assistance Supports: Discussion (23 Mar 2023)

Eileen Flynn: ...them? I do not have any other questions that have not been asked. What struck me last year was that a person gets a personal assistant for 45 minutes a day. The Government and the HSE can pat themselves on the back and say they are doing a great job because of those 45 minutes per day. I have a friend, Dr. Rosaleen McDonagh. I hope she does not mind me saying this. She comes before...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)

Eileen Flynn: Last week we had the HSE and the Department before the committee and it was a daunting session. There was a sense of people giving pats on the back. I mean no disrespect about all the great work that is being done but then listening to parents and the experience on the ground it is different. I would encourage the Department to look over what people have said in the committee today. Last...

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

Eileen Flynn: .... We need all communities to get out of poverty. This is one step, and it is only a step, but it is a step in the right direction. It is very disheartening, because I am very fond of the Minister of State, to see that we are patting ourselves on the back and saying we are doing a great job for these people, for the “thems” and the “theys”, for youse over...

Seanad: Broadband Roll-out: Statements (26 Jan 2022)

Eileen Flynn: ...disappointed to read the Minister, Deputy Ryan’s national broadband plan update and to see that a few counties have been left behind on this update, Donegal being one of them. A former Minister, Pat Rabbitte, announced the national broadband plan ten years ago this August. When announcing it, he described the national broadband plan as the rural electrification of the 21st...