Joint Oireachtas Committee on Key Issues Affecting Travellers

Between September 2019 and July 2021, a Joint Oireachtas Committee on Key Issues Affecting Travellers met to discuss the issues of Mental Health, Health, Education, Employment, and Accommodation.

Due to the dissolution of the Dáil and Seanad in early 2020 the final issue of Accommodation was not discussed until early 2021, when the Joint Committee was resumed.

The Committee was chaired by Senator Collette Kelleher initially, and went on to be chaired by Senator Eileen Flynn, when the Committee resumed its business under the 33rd Dáil / 26th Seanad.

Topics

  • Mental Health
  • Health
  • Education
  • Employment
  • Accommodation

ITM Submissions


Mental Health

The committee held sittings discussing Traveller Mental Health on:

24th September 2019

Present: Joan Collins, Lynn Ruane, Marcella Corcoran Kennedy, Fintan Warfield, Gino Kenny, Fiona O’Loughlin.

Colette Kelleher in the Chair.

Speakers: Martin Reilly, Bernard Joyce, Bridgid Qulligan, Minnie Connors, Patrick Reilly

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Opening Statements:

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8th October 2019

Joan Collins, Paudie Coffey, Marcella Corcoran Kennedy, Lynn Ruane, Martin Ferris, Gino Kenny, Éamon Ó Cuív, Deputy Pat Buckley

Colette Kelleher in the Chair.

Speakers: Thomas McCann, Niamh Keating, Sandra McDonagh, Bridget Kelly, Maria Carnicer 

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Opening Statements:

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15th October 2019

Joan Collins, Marcella Corcoran Kennedy, Fintan Warfield

Colette Kelleher in the Chair.

Speakers: Deputy Jim Daly, Senator Joan Freeman, Kate Mitchell, Dr. Brian Keogh, Dr. Aileen Tierney, John Meehan, Dr. David Maguire, Dr. Siobhán Ní Bhriain

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Health

The committee held sittings discussing Traveller Mental Health on:

22nd October 2019

Éamon Ó Cuív. Paudie Coffey, Lynn Ruane, Fintan Warfield

Colette Kelleher in the Chair.

Speakers: Kathleen Sherlock, Brigid Quirke, Maria Joyce, Nora Mooney, Missie Collins, Jim Walsh

Full transcript HERE

Opening Statements:

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5th November 2019

Joan Collins, Jennifer Murnane O’Connor, Marcella Corcoran Kennedy, Lynn Ruane, Gino Kenny, Fintan Warfield, Fiona O’Loughlin, Éamon Ó Cuív.

Colette Kelleher in the Chair.

Speakers: Breda O’Donoghue, Siobhán McArdle, Dr. Mary Favier, Concepta de Brun, Deirdre O’Reilly, Dr. Tony Cox

Full Transcript HERE

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Education

The committee held sittings discussing Traveller Education on:

12th November 2019

Joan Collins, Paudie Coffey, Gino Kenny, Fintan Warfield, Éamon Ó Cuív.

Lynne Ruane in the Vice-Chair.

Speakers: Patrick Nevin, Eileen Flynn, Maria Joyce, Catherine Joyce. 

Full Transcript HERE

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19th November 2019

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy, Lynn Ruane, Gino Kenny, Éamon Ó Cuív, Pippa Hackett.

Collette Kelleher in the Chair.

Speakers: Shreya Chaturvedi, Oein de Bhairdúin, Martin Collins, Bernard Joyce. 

Full Transcript HERE

Opening Statements:

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26th November 2019

Joan Collins, Lynn Ruane, Marcella Corcoran Kennedy, Martin Ferris, Éamon Ó Cuív.

Collette Kelleher in the Chair.

Speakers: Dr. Teresa O’Doherty, Deputy Jan O’Sullivan, Patrick McDonagh

Full transcript HERE

Opening Statements:

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3rd December 2019

Joan Collins, Paudie Coffey, Martin Ferris, Lynn Ruane, Gino Kenny, Fintan Warfield, Fiona O’Loughlin.

Collette Kelleher in the Chair.

Speakers: Enda Hughes, Tara Farrell, Cathleen McDonagh Clark, Caitríona Ryan, Inez Bailey, Brian Melia, Patricia Sheehan, Deputy Joe McHugh, Deputy Mary Mitchell O’Connor

Full Transcript HERE

Opening Statements

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Traveller Employment

The committee held sittings discussing Traveller Education on:

10th December 2019

 Joan Collins, Lynn Ruane, Eamon O’Cuiv, Gino Kenny, Fiona O’Loughlin.

Colette Kelleher in the Chair.

Speakers: Patrick Reilly, Kathleen Sherlock, TJ Hogan, Sinead Burke, James O’Leary, Michael Power, Dr Sheila Canon, Dr Mary Murphy 

Full transcript HERE

Opening Statements:

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17th December 2021

Joan Collins, Lynn Ruane, Jennifer Murnane, Gino Kenny, Fintan Warfield and Marcella Corcoran Kennedy

Colette Kelleher in the Chair.

Speakers: Bernard Joyce, Hugh Friel, Joanna Corcoran, Doreen Carpenter, Brigid Quilligan, Michael McCarthy, Kyle Quill and Oein DeBhairduin.

Full Transcript HERE

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