Seán Kyne (Fine Gael)
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I move:

That, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders— (1) Seanad Éireann hereby appoints a Committee (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Committee’), to be joined with a Committee to be appointed by Dáil Éireann, to form the Joint Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community;

(2) the Joint Committee shall aim for consensus, based on human rights principles, on policy directions in respect of the following key issues affecting the Traveller Community:

(a) Travellers’ experience of the justice system;

(b) matters related to mental health among Travellers;

(c) progress in relation to employment opportunities for Travellers;

(d) progress in relation to Implementation of the Final Report of the Joint Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community, November 2021,

and shall report thereon twice yearly to both Houses of the Oireachtas;

(3) in carrying out its role under paragraph (2), the Joint Committee may:

(a) review the work carried out by the previous Joint Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community during the 25th Seanad, and the previous Joint Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community during the 26th Seanad, and shall be provided with access to all submissions and relevant documentation of the respective Committees;

(b) invite submissions and presentations from the Traveller Community;

(c) examine current statutory, non-statutory and Departmental responses, including policy,resources and law;

(d) research and identify models of good practice nationally and internationally;

(e) establish parameters to gather relevant data; and

(f) make recommendations, taking into account the views of the Traveller Community;

(4) the Committee shall not exceed five members of Seanad Éireann;

(5) members of either House, not being members of the Joint Committee, may attend and take part in proceedings of the Joint Committee, or any sub-Committee thereof, but without having a right to vote or to move motions or amendments, save where they attend, pursuant to Standing Orders, as a substitute for an absent member (or for a substitute not in attendance);

(6) members should be nominated to serve on the Committee by report of the Committee of Selection of each House;

(7) the Joint Committee shall elect one of its members to be Chairperson; and

(8) the Joint Committee shall have the powers defined in Standing Order 72, other than paragraph (6).